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sralin, you must love this pic. from Europe , right ?

 

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On February 3, 1945, the prisoners of Block 20 (death block), mostly russians, revolted in the Mauthausen concentration camp. More than 500 people broke out of the barracks, seized the machine gun towers and left the camp.
The SS organized a chase, attracting local residents. The operation was called a "Hare hunt."
Almost all fugitives were found and killed, but no one surrendered, everyone tried to die in the fight.
All in all, according to official data, 11 people survived...

 

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On February 3, 1959:

 

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20 years ago today

 

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76 years agо the Yalta Conference began. (, from 04 to 11.02.1945)
- There was much debate about the location of the conference. Initially the British proposed Scotland, but Comrade Stalin refused to go to the "men in skirts". In fact, the USSR insisted on the Crimea. Since at that time the Red Army had great success on the front and was already several hundred kilometers from Berlin, which gave the right to dictate their terms.

- Stalin immediately decided to show who was in charge at the conference. He did not come to meet Roosevelt and Churchill, and stayed late on the first day of the conference, but only on the first day.

- During the preparations, the Yalta conference had the codename "Argonaut," as Churchill called it, because he wrote to Roosevelt, "We are direct descendants of the Argonauts, who, according to Greek mythology, sailed to the Black Sea for the golden fleece." Stalin also liked this metaphor.

- Winston Churchill left Yalta last. Stalin and Roosevelt left the Crimea on the same day, and the British prime minister stayed for two days to visit Balaclava. It was there, in the mid-autumn of 1854, that an attack by British light cavalry cost the lives of many aristocratic families of Great Britain. Among them were the Dukes of Marlborough, ancestors of Winston Churchill.

- During the conference a very important treaty was signed, under which the USSR was to enter the war with Japan after the surrender of Germany. In return, the USSR received the Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin.

 

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In 146 BC, after five days of street battles, the defenders of Carthage laid down their arms. The III Punic War ended with the final victory of the Roman armies under the command of Scipio. The city's survivors were taken into slavery.
The well-known legend of sprinkling salt on the land of Carthage dates back no earlier than the 19th century.

In 1958, a Mark-15 hydrogen bomb (100 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima) was accidentally dropped off the east coast of the USA near Tybee Island as a result of a collision between two military aircraft. A ten-week search failed to find it.

In 1985, the Third Punic War formally ended: during an official visit to Tunisia, Rome's mayor, Hugo Vetere, signed the peace treaty between Rome and Carthage.