Large-Scale Tragedies… The Largest Accidents in the USSR That Did Not Receive Publicity

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The collision of passenger aircrafts over Dneprodzerzhinsk, 1979. One of the biggest football crashes of the time. One plane operated a flight Tashkent — Minsk. On board were 83 people, including 17 members of the Pakhtakor football team. The second plane followed the route Chelyabinsk — Voronezh — Chisinau, which had 89 passengers and 6 crew members on board. As a result of the error of air traffic controllers, two TU-134 aircrafts collided at a height.

20 Little-known Facts About World War II

World War II began on September 1, 1939 with the Nazi German attack on Poland. Subsequently, 61 states took part in this war (this is 80% of the entire globe). The great war claimed the lives of more than 70 million people and became one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of mankind. We prepared the 20 most interesting and little-known facts about the World War II for today's selection.

Color Photos of London During the Second World War

The attacks of the German Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II brought a lot of fatal destruction and claimed more than one hundred lives. Many cities suffered from German “attacks”, but sometimes it seems that London has suffered the most: more than a million buildings were completely destroyed, more than 20,000 civilians were killed, but the Wehrmacht did not achieve its main goal, because the British’s strong spirit was not to break just ...