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The Red Army liberated this city on just the second day of the Great Patriotic War Przemyśl was among the first cities to come under attack by the Wehrmacht in the early morning of June 22, 1941; the state border ran right through the city along the San River. Nevertheless, it took the Germans about ten hours to break the resistance of the border guards and the garrison and bring the city fully un…

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Why did the ‘ball bearings drop behind the roller bearings’? Have you been struggling with a difficult problem all day to no avail? The only result is a complete fog in your head. That’s because your “шарики за ролики заехали” (“shariki za roliki zayekhali” or "ball bearings dropped behind the rollers"). This expression predictably originated in mechanics. In a properly functioning device, all par…

How a Soviet officer once saved Kim Il Sung’s life It happened on March 1, 1946, in Pyongyang. Kim Il Sung, head of the provisional North Korean government, was addressing a rally on the square outside the railway station when someone in the crowd threw a grenade toward the podium. Second Lieutenant Yakov Novichenko from the security platoon, was the first to reach it. With no time to think and pe…