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Some unusual facts about the Soviet Union. And what do you know about the Soviet Union?
6 anos atrásOn Dec. 30, 1922, Russia and three other republics formed the constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
А government department was founded to study Lenin's brain.
80% males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.
During the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world’s largest seed bank, refusing to eat what they saw as their country’s future.
A Soviet Union Marshal commissioned a colorless Coca-Cola that resembled vodka because he liked the taste and was embarrassed to be seen drinking coke in public.
25 Russian soldiers under the command of Yakov Pavlov defended a building during the Battle of Stalingrad so well that it never fell. Vasily Chuikov, general of the Soviet forces in Stalingrad, later joked that the Germans lost more men trying to take “Pavlov’s house” than they did taking Paris.
In Soviet Russia, prisoners would get tattoos of Lenin & Stalin, because guards weren’t allowed to shoot at images of national leaders.
The first animal launched into orbit, Laika, was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger.
And what do you know about the Soviet Union? Что ты знаешь о Советском Союзе?
