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The Soviet-Finnish war 1939-40 concluded that the territorial claims of the USSR to Finland were satisfied. However, this victory was achieved at the cost of very serious losses of the Soviet side. And one of the reasons for these losses have become famous snipers-"Kuckuck and". They were virtually invisible and very effective. It is not surprising that their deadly activities have created many myths.

The December day in 1981, in the Udmurt town of Sarapul in the secondary school No. 12 was heard automatic gunfire. Two soldiers seized 10 class, demanded a plane to America.

29 July 1944 the Byelorussian strategic offensive operation known as operation Bagration, the Red Army defeated the German army group "Center". To the complete defeat of the Nazis had less than a year.

The brigands in the Caucasus called the outcasts, loners, forced to gone to the mountains from his native village because of some crime or for the fulfillment of blood vengeance. Some of them became leaders of the same gangs of thugs. Someone was awarded the people's love as a kind of mountain "Robin hoods". Some brought their activities with political overtones. Most were simply engaged in robbery.

Spectrum of political forces in the Square, quite unlike the Russian. An example is the monarchist movement: Ukrainian supporters of hereditary power see as contenders for the crown is not the Romanov dynasty.