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The death of the second wife of Joseph Stalin raises many questions even among modern historians. However, not less interesting are some of the events that followed the suicide of Nadezhda Alliluyeva. This destruction suicide letter Alliluyeva, and disappearance of documents on the autopsy of the body, and the words spoken by Stalin at the coffin of his wife.

In Mexico there is a monument to the Soviet scientist Yuri Knorozov. This is a sculpture depicting severe human holding the cat. No ordinary monument. And why in Mexico? Why a cat?

The thirties of the XX century in the Soviet Union were marked by a sharp increase in power of Stalin, accompanied by departure from the principles of world revolution and political repression in the direction of building a strong state. Against this backdrop, some well-known cultural figures such as Maxim Gorky, who had great authority in the country and abroad, became deadly.

According to the scientific information and education centre "memorial" only during 1937-1938 in the Soviet Union non-judicial "Troika" of the NKVD, was sentenced in absentia to death about 700 thousand people (enemies, spies, wreckers, etc.). In quantitative terms, such sentences are pronounced in the USSR without the presence of the convicted person, dominated in the years of the Great terror.

The Queen of spades is associated with a femme fatale that brings all sorts of disadvantages. With this character compared Vladimir Alliluev Yulia Meltzer, wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili. The matter, according to Alliluyeva, was not only in her appearance. Julia Isaakovna, not being too smart and uncultured, it seemed, literally bewitched the son of the leader.

In 1989, the next issue of "the View" was banned on television with the phrase "for aesthetic reasons". But in fact, the reason of the ban was different: in an interview with "vzglyadom" the daughter of the former Secretary General Galina Brezhnev told some facts about the life of Raisa Gorbacheva.

15 August 1990 and became the brightest star of Russian rock – Viktor Tsoi. It is rightfully called a legend despite the fact that he died very young (aged 28 years), Choi left behind a song that I admire almost 30 years after his death. The official cause of death of the legendary musician is an accident, but to this day there are new views and versions that contradict what the singer just fell asleep at the wheel and faced with going towards "Ikarus".[C-BLOCK]

In September, 1918 was proclaimed the decree "On red terror", which gave rise to one of the most tragic pages in the history of Russia. In fact legalizing radical methods to eliminate dissent, the Bolsheviks unleashed and outright sadists and mentally ill people who get pleasure and moral satisfaction from killing. Special diligence, oddly enough, scored the fairer sex.

Ewald von Kleist was among the three German field marshals, after the war held in Soviet captivity. But he only was destined to die in the USSR – in the walls of the famous Vladimir Central.

From 1954 to 1957 Yuri Andropov held the post of Soviet Ambassador to Hungary. In the same period in the country's capital the events occurred, called the "Budapest autumn". Because of this spouse Andropov was such a nervous shock that all life remained the invalid.