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Probably, there is no person in Russia who has not heard about Uralmash, a plant in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg. IN soviet years there they produced equipment for blast furnaces, mines, blooming mills, walking excavators and much more. About 40 thousand people worked here, living a stone's throw from the plant.
Many years ago, a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of the Viking country from Nazi occupation was erected in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The inscription on the monument reads: "Norway thanks you" ...
There was never a division of Poland between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. And no furious screams through the gnashing of teeth of self-proclaimed preachers of true humanism will not cancel this fact. The process, which is commonly called the "partition of Poland", was in fact the return of territories temporarily occupied by the Poles after the Soviet-Polish war of 1920-1921.
When the construction of Stonehenge was completed, before the construction of the Great egyptian pyramids there were still about 500 years left.
Women have long served in the army, they heroically fought on the fronts of two world wars of the 20th century and now command battalions and regiments, but at the beginning of the 19th century, the opinion dominated in society that they had no place in the army.
The Industrial Party case was one of the most controversial trials of the 1930s. In times Soviet Union this page of history was carefully avoided, as, indeed, many other events related to repressions. Today this process is usually called fabricated, organized with the aim of justifying the failures of the first five-year plan. But is it really so?
"Enlightened sovereigns and wise commanders who are able to get smart spies will certainly achieve great results" (Sun Tzu, "The Art of War").
In ancient times, the Galapagos (Turtle) Islands in Pacific served as a haven for pirates. Only in 1835, 300 years after the discovery of this amazing archipelago, the first scientist, Charles Darwin, visited it. Almost 90 years passed, and in the spring of 1923, the steam schooner "Noma" of the American scientific expedition approached one of the islands - Indefatigeblu. It was headed by the zoologist William Beebe.
The historical site of Bagheera - secrets of history, mysteries of the universe. Mysteries of great empires and ancient civilizations, the fate of disappeared treasures and biographies of people who changed the world, the secrets of special services. History of wars, mysteries of battles and battles, reconnaissance operations of the past and present. World traditions, modern life in Russia, the mysteries of the USSR, the main directions of culture and other related topics - all that the official history is silent about.
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Probably, there is no person in Russia who has not heard about Uralmash, a plant in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg. During the Soviet years, they produced equipment for blast furnaces, mines, blooming mills, walking excavators and much more. About 40 thousand people worked here, living a stone's throw from the plant.
Many years ago, a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of the Viking country from Nazi occupation was erected in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The inscription on the monument reads: "Norway thanks you" ...
There was never a division of Poland between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. And no furious screams through the gnashing of teeth of self-proclaimed preachers of true humanism will not cancel this fact. The process, which is commonly called the "partition of Poland", was in fact the return of territories temporarily occupied by the Poles after the Soviet-Polish war of 1920-1921.
When the construction of Stonehenge was completed, about 500 years remained before the construction of the Great Egyptian pyramids.
Women have long served in the army, they heroically fought on the fronts of two world wars of the 20th century and now command battalions and regiments, but at the beginning of the 19th century, the opinion dominated in society that they had no place in the army.
The Industrial Party case was one of the most controversial trials of the 1930s. In times Soviet Union this page of history was carefully avoided, as, indeed, many other events related to repressions. Today this process is usually called fabricated, organized with the aim of justifying the failures of the first five-year plan. But is it really so?
"Enlightened sovereigns and wise commanders who are able to get smart spies will certainly achieve great results" (Sun Tzu, "The Art of War").
In ancient times, the Galapagos (Turtle) Islands in the Pacific Ocean served as a haven for pirates. Only in 1835, 300 years after the discovery of this amazing archipelago, the first scientist, Charles Darwin, visited it. Almost 90 years passed, and in the spring of 1923, the steam schooner "Noma" of the American scientific expedition approached one of the islands - Indefatigeblu. It was headed by the zoologist William Beebe.
Probably, there were not as many secrets as the USSR kept in any country in the world. The Iron Curtain hid everything that did not go well with the "beautiful Soviet life."
About the terrible nuclear accident that occurred in the Soviet Union in 1957, the whole world learned only thirty years later. The tragedy happened in the south of Russia near the city of Kyshtym. The accident occurred due to an explosion in a container in which radioactive waste was stored, this container was in the shape of a stainless steel cylinder and was covered with concrete. Moreover, it was designed in such a way that in case of repair it was impossible to get close to it, probably because the developers did not have doubts about the strength of the structure.
At the end of September, the cooling systems went out of order, no one began to repair it, and it was simply turned off, a few days later an explosion thundered in a storage with 80 m3 of nuclear waste. The force of the explosion lifted some of the radioactive debris by one and a half kilometers, as a result of which a cloud was formed. Already twelve hours later, radioactive fallout fell within a radius of three hundred and fifty kilometers, they covered the territories of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen regions, more than twenty thousand square kilometers were affected. As a result of the catastrophe, the houses of more than ten thousand people were destroyed, about three hundred thousand people suffered from radiation. For the first time, the US special services became aware of the tragedy in the 60s, but fearing a negative attitude towards nuclear tests, the world kept silent about it, and in 1976 a Soviet emigrant told the press about it. The USSR confirmed the information about the disaster only a few years after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The Cold War between the USSR and the West dictated the condition of primacy in all branches of life. The same position was in the field of astronautics, where the USSR and the USA competed in who would be the first to launch a man into space. The Soviet Union strictly classified all data on the conducted research, and many names of the pilots - cosmonauts who had been preparing for flights for long thirty years were classified. So it happened with Valentinov Bondarenko, a fighter pilot who was a member of the first space squadron of the USSR.
In 1960, he was selected to participate in training for space flight, and he became the fourth in a list of 29 pilots preparing for the first space flight. Unfortunately, he never managed to fly.
The pilot passed the necessary space flight preparation, one of the trainings was a ten-day stay in an isolation chamber at NII-7. The test meant being alone and quiet. However, fate played a cruel joke on him. During one of his medical studies, he made a mistake. After removing the sensors from the body, he wiped the places on the body on which they were fixed with alcohol, and threw out the cotton swab. The tampon hit the hot coil of the electric stove and burst into flames. Since almost all the air inside the pressure chamber consisted of pure oxygen, the fire instantly spread throughout the chamber and the pilot's woolen suit instantly caught fire ...
Unfortunately, the rescuers were not able to open the pressure chamber quickly, as there was a large pressure drop between it and the surrounding space. When Bondarenko was taken out of the isolation chamber, he was still alive, although he received burns of more than 98% of his body, his eyes, hair and skin were completely burned out, blood vessels could only be found on the soles of his feet. Being in a painful shock, the pilot whispered that he was in great pain. He was urgently transported to the Botkin hospital, where, despite the efforts of doctors, he died sixteen hours later from burn shock. Nineteen days later, Yuri Gagarin flew into space ...
A year later, in 1961, Valentin Bondarenko was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star (posthumously), he left behind a wife and a young son. The state did not help the family, they only received a pension until the child came of age, they tried to forget about the family. Valentine was buried in Kharkov, the inscription "from friends - pilots" was carved on the obelisk, and only in the 80s was attributed "cosmonauts of the USSR".
All information about the incident with Valentin Bondarenko was classified until 1986, when the story of his death was described in the Izvestia newspaper.
For a very long time, all the data about the famine of 1932-1933 in some regions of the USSR were hushed up, they tried to forget about it and delete from history, as something that actually did not exist.
The policy of collectivization, food appropriation and grain procurement pursued by the Soviet regime led to the fact that terrible famines broke out in a number of territories of the Soviet Union, especially in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. IN recent times theories arose that the famine in Ukraine was deliberately caused to eradicate the rebellious people, but this cannot be one hundred percent asserted. On purpose or not, this policy has taken the lives of millions of people.
It is also terrible that the terrible famine was hidden from foreign states, they did not know anything about it, or they knew, but did not want to heat up relations with Stalin. In order to hide all the horrors taking place in the USSR, top management real "performances" were played out in front of foreign tourists and correspondents: the shops were packed with all kinds of products, but ordinary citizens could not enter there - any attempts ended in arrest. Sometimes such ideas reached the point of absurdity - the streets were washed out, and responsible party workers disguised themselves as peasants. It was not in vain that such performances were arranged, the French prime minister who visited Ukraine said that he was in a real “blooming garden”.
There is still no exact number of deaths from hunger, but some researchers call the figure up to seven million people, it is not for nothing that the census that the USSR conducted in 1937 was classified. Unfortunately, only in last years was given a true assessment of the events of the nightmares of 1932-33 in the Union.
For a long time, the tragedy that occurred in the Katyn Forest was classified, and the world community pretended not to know anything about these events. The horrors of the mass execution of the USSR were hidden not without the help of Great Britain and the United States.
Relations between Poland and the USSR have always been very difficult. In 1939, the fourth partition of Poland took place, more than half a million Poles were in Soviet captivity, most of the Soviet authorities handed over to the German troops, and about forty thousand ended up in Soviet camps.
In 1940, Beria told Stalin that there were a lot of former Polish officers, intelligence officers and nationalists in camps on the territory of Poland and the Union. Thus, more than 25,000 Polish citizens were branded, whose past did not like the Soviet authorities. It was customary to consider their personal files with particular care and to shoot them. In April, those sentenced in groups of 350-400 people were taken to the Katyn forest for execution, an overcoat was thrown over their heads and shot in the back of the head near the ditch, while German-made pistols were used, later the USSR used this fact at the Nuremberg tribunal, trying to prove that they committed the murders Germans, during the occupation of the USSR. The USSR adhered to this opinion until 1990, categorically denying its guilt.
However, the UK and the US knew about the wine Soviet Union... So Churchill, in unofficial conversations, confirmed that this was the work of the Bolsheviks, but at the same time he imposed censorship on the British press in this matter. Roosevelt also did not want to openly accuse Stalin, data that the government knew about the guilt of the Union surfaced in the United States only in 1952.
The arms race, which began immediately after the end of the war, gave a sharp impetus to the engineering and design developments of the Soviet Union. One of these new products is the Ekranoplan.
In the mid-1960s, an American spy satellite managed to capture images of an unfinished Soviet seaplane. The Americans were amazed at the sheer size of the flying ship - nothing like this had ever happened in the United States. Moreover, American experts said that such a huge wingspan would not even allow the plane to take off. Size wasn't the only oddity aircraft... Its engines were located too close to the nose of the craft than to its wings. However, the Americans did not manage to unravel the secrets of the flying object, until the collapse of the USSR.
The classified object turned out to be the Caspian Sea Monster - an ekranoplan, a kind of apparatus that combined an airplane and a ship that could fly just a few meters from the surface of the water.
The developments were highly classified, it was not even possible to mention the name of the device. Huge funds were allocated for the project, as the developers hoped that in the future such ecoplanes would be very useful. It was assumed that such "Monsters" will be able to transport hundreds of soldiers, tanks at a speed of about five hundred kilometers per hour, while they would be completely invisible to radars. The total mass of the ekranoplan with a load could reach five hundred tons. The aircraft was supposed to be equipped with economical engines that would consume less fuel than many cargo planes. In the course of development, the designers managed to build only one such ekronoplane, the length of which was two and a half times longer than the Boeing, it was equipped with eight jet engines and six nuclear warheads.
During the first flight of the ekranoplan, which was built at the Nizhny Novgorod plant and the Ordzhonikidze Aircraft Building Plant, the giant's designer Rostislav Alekseev sat at the helm. The tests lasted fifteen years, and in 1980 the ekranoplan was destroyed during an accident.
Unfortunately, the Soviet people were often characterized by negligence and disregard for their work, which very often led to accidents and disasters. One of such large-scale disasters was the Nedelin disaster. It happened during preparations for the first launch of the R-16 intercontinental missile.
Half an hour before the alleged launch of the rocket, one of the engines was launched, as a result, fuel tanks were destroyed, and the propellant ignited. During the investigation, it was revealed that a breakthrough occurred in the membrane of one of the tanks the day before, and the fuel was not drained in violation of the instructions. To speed up preparation for the launch, an external ampoule battery was installed on board the rocket, an hour before the launch, which led to the appearance of voltage in the rocket's electrical circuits, which led to a short circuit of contacts and an explosion.
According to all the rules, the rocket had to be sent for rechecking, and this would have dragged on for several months. Commander-in-chief of the missile forces, Mitrofan Nedelin, commanded the launch of the rocket, who treated the missile breakdown that happened the day before rather superficially, especially since he had an order to launch the rocket by the Day of the Great October Revolution. The explosion took place on a terrifying scale - all the people on the launch site died, the temperature was so enormous that the surface of the site was melted, because of which no one was able to escape - everyone burned to death. More than eighty people died in the crash, about fifty were injured.
All information about the disaster was carefully classified, no official statements were made. It was announced that the commander of the missile forces M. Nedelin had died in a plane crash. All the relatives of the victims were told that their relatives had died in an accident. However, information and tragedies still got into foreign media, and already at the end of 1960, the Italians reported about the disaster, where one hundred people died, and five years later in England one of the exposed soviet intelligence officers confirmed the crash data. The USSR first announced the disaster only in 1989 in the Ogonyok magazine, where an essay was published.
In the late forties, the Soviet Union established a top-secret laboratory on one of the islands of the Aral Sea, which was engaged in the development of the latest biological weapons. The main developments were carried out with the bubonic plague and anthrax viruses. Later, smallpox joined these strains.
So it is believed that in 1971 they managed to develop a vaccine-resistant smallpox virus, which in 1990 may have been sold to Iraq as a bacteriological weapon. It was in 1971 that the developed virus was tested outdoors, leading to a violent outbreak of smallpox. Infection was detected in ten people. Quarantine was urgently introduced for several hundred people, and more than fifty thousand local residents The Aral Sea region has been vaccinated. All data on the outbreak of smallpox were classified, they learned about it only at the beginning of the 21st century, since the Russian authorities also did not recognize what happened.
In Soviet times, there were cities that were not marked on more than one map, only those who lived there knew about their existence. Such cities received their status due to the placement of secret objects of state importance in them. Get there an ordinary person it was impossible due to the strictest access system and the secrecy of the city's location. As a rule, they were given names regional center with the addition of a number, for example Penza - 19. Such secrecy often helped to hide the disasters that happened here, as in the case of the radioactive catastrophe in Chelyabinsk - 65. However, these cities had pluses - they were well supplied, there was always a scarce commodity, and the level the crime rate was almost zero. It was very difficult to get a job in such a city - they checked relatives almost up to the 5th generation.
Each of these cities had its own secret specifics. So, in Zagorsk - 6 was the Virological Institute, Arzamas - 16 was engaged in nuclear weapons, in Sverdlovsk-45 they were engaged in uranium enrichment. Later, relatives of residents were allowed to come to some cities, but for this they underwent a strict check in special bodies. In total, according to available data, there were forty-two closed cities in the Union, but fifteen of them are still closed.
The historical site of Bagheera - secrets of history, mysteries of the universe. Mysteries of great empires and ancient civilizations, the fate of disappeared treasures and biographies of people who changed the world, the secrets of special services. History of wars, mysteries of battles and battles, reconnaissance operations of the past and present. World traditions, modern life in Russia, the mysteries of the USSR, the main directions of culture and other related topics - all that the official history is silent about.
Explore the secrets of history - it's interesting ...
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Probably, there is no person in Russia who has not heard about Uralmash, a plant in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg. During the Soviet years, they produced equipment for blast furnaces, mines, blooming mills, walking excavators and much more. About 40 thousand people worked here, living a stone's throw from the plant.
Many years ago, a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of the Viking country from Nazi occupation was erected in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The inscription on the monument reads: "Norway thanks you" ...
There was never a division of Poland between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. And no furious screams through the gnashing of teeth of self-proclaimed preachers of true humanism will not cancel this fact. The process, which is commonly called the "partition of Poland", was in fact the return of territories temporarily occupied by the Poles after the Soviet-Polish war of 1920-1921.
When the construction of Stonehenge was completed, about 500 years remained before the construction of the Great Egyptian pyramids.
Women have long served in the army, they heroically fought on the fronts of two world wars of the 20th century and now command battalions and regiments, but at the beginning of the 19th century, the opinion dominated in society that they had no place in the army.
The Industrial Party case was one of the most controversial trials of the 1930s. In times Soviet Union this page of history was carefully avoided, as, indeed, many other events related to repressions. Today this process is usually called fabricated, organized with the aim of justifying the failures of the first five-year plan. But is it really so?
"Enlightened sovereigns and wise commanders who are able to get smart spies will certainly achieve great results" (Sun Tzu, "The Art of War").
In ancient times, the Galapagos (Turtle) Islands in the Pacific Ocean served as a haven for pirates. Only in 1835, 300 years after the discovery of this amazing archipelago, the first scientist, Charles Darwin, visited it. Almost 90 years passed, and in the spring of 1923, the steam schooner "Noma" of the American scientific expedition approached one of the islands - Indefatigeblu. It was headed by the zoologist William Beebe.