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Photo: Iron Division.
BMP-1, T-10 and BTR-60PA direct-fire aimed at the stadium «Izmailovo», under which there is Stalin’s bunker. Underground kingdom restored to innitsiative club «Iron division» and is now a branch of the Central Museum of Armed Forces.
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Photo: st. Varvarka
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Сorrect mannequin
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Today Yuri Gagarin would have turned 75!
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Photo: monument to Yuri Gagarin in city Lyubertsy near college, where he studied in 1949-1951.
It is a pity that he lived only 34.
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Day of Stalin’s death
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Photo: the necropolis of the Kremlin wall
His body was preserved in Lenin’s Mausoleum. At Mausoleum added «STALIN» by letters «LENIN», but in 1961, the XXII Congress of the CPSU decided that the «serious violations by Stalin Leninskiye Testaments …» blah, blah, blah, and the body softly rendered dark night, and buried where it is still – in the necropolis of the Kremlin wall, the second tomb after Suslov from the Mausoleum.
And now the legend:
In the early thirties of the camps in the Far East escaped prisoner. He believed, that put him in by mistake or intentionally evil functionaries, and if the leader of people knew, then surely all would be resolved satisfactorily. As a sign of devotion, and as proof of his guiltless escaped prisoner live hermit in the woods and the hollow of the rock bas-relief of Stalin. Then with a pure heart went surrender.
Photo: Profile Stalin carved into the rock in the Far East.
Train in the picture was painted, according to legend, the cliff was 50 kilometers from the railway, so that the sound was not audible.
And now we have the opportunity to not only think we want, but say it out loud. Well just been born on some half-century later. Lucky))
Yes, the prisoner was shot after surrender. On aggregate…