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Actually, of course, there were more. Animal fear for their lives in conditions of war pushed to the betrayal of hundreds of thousands of people of different ranks. Tens of thousands of people in the great Patriotic war fought against their own countrymen. Thousands were killed while his fellows. Hundreds were doing it intelligently and with animal interest. Tens commanded the organized treason, and this they did bother.

We remember Chapaev by books and films, telling about it jokes. But real life red division commander was no less interesting. He loved cars, arguing with the teachers of the military Academy. And Chapaev's not a real name.

During the years of the great Patriotic war in captivity were about 5 million Soviet citizens (data of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, published in 2005).

An Orthodox priest Fyodor Puzanov during the Great Patriotic war saved hundreds of villagers from stealing to Germany. He scored half a million rubles for the needs of the front, and in the end was "not a lot".

The battle at the small station of Prokhorovka during the great Patriotic war was an example of the Grand tank battle in the history of war. The battle of Prokhorovka was the epitome of courage and heroism of Soviet soldiers. But the results of this battle still cause heated debate. In question raised a number of techniques and the scale of the operation, which version of separate historians have been exaggerated by Soviet propaganda.