the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower (pictured) have only stopped once during their existence, when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War?
towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front?
the Ribbon of Saint George is worn in Russia on Victory Day as an act of commemoration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War?
the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture?
in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II, German soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog?
the snipers of the Kremlin Regiment killed a total of more than 1,200 German soldiers and officers during the Soviet-German War?
Heinz Guderian (pictured) and Adolf Hitler had heated arguments while planning for Operation Solstice, one of the major German offensive operations on the Eastern Front during WWII?