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Red Army In any case, the regimental commander admired his chief of staff very highly and noted his outstanding service quality. "Hong Eui Pe was a wonderful chief Staff - remember Ilya Dubinsky. - In his face I had a wonderful assistant. His work he performed impeccably, was accurate, performers and initiative would sit at the headquarters until midnight, and sometimes slept there. " Alas! commander of the Koreans was not destined to live up to the war. No sooner was promoted and finishing in 1936 as Chief of Staff of the operational separation of 4-th separate armored brigade Military District, Hong Eui Pe fell into a meat grinder Stalin's repressions. How the fate of his wife - Moscow weavers and their two young sons - the Revolutionary Committee, and Marat, we know nothing. Rather, they shared the fate of the camp all the family members of many "Enemies." At that time, as the summit of the Red Army matured plan of the new victorious World War ii, in choosing future adversaries and allies complete unanimity in red marshals were not. , for example, was supporter of the alliance with France. On his initiative, the French officers and generals are increasingly appearing in the Soviet divisions and corps. In vogue delegation, interns, and other forms of exchange. One of these interns - Major French General Staff Louis Leguest - arrived in the summer of 1935 under Chuhuyiv, the location of the tank regiment. "Dry, lean, correct, mature, with intelligent black eyes, he did not conceal his joy caused by the Franco-Soviet Union, - Dubinsky recalled.
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Treskova Lieutenant Fabian Curiously, that the attempt on Hitler in the evening on Nov. 8, 1939, in the 16 th anniversary of the Nazis 'beer' coup, was the impetus for the significant increase of Stalin. Since that time, all the objects that the leader was about to visit, become exposed the most careful preliminary examination, but in the Kremlin brought generally inspect for weapons briefcases and bags of virtually any person most little-known attempt to apply by March 1943. The idea was simple: to blow up Hitler in his own plane during the flight to fake an accident. To this end, the Chief of Staff of Army Group "Center" Col. Gen. Henning von Treskov managed to convince Hitler that he should visit Eastern Front. And the Fuhrer was going to fly in Smolensk. Before Hitler, in the second half of February in this ancient Russian city visited the head of the Abwehr, Admiral Canaris (went down in history under the nickname Sly Fox) and his group officers. Among them was a senior intelligence official, Hans von Dohnanyi. He is secretly (but probably with the knowledge of Canaris) had brought with him the latest British explosives, similar to putty (apparently, the prototype of modern plastids), and handed it to the adjutant von Treskova Lieutenant Fabian von Shlabrendorfu. March 13, 1943, when the Fuhrer, completing inspections of the troops of the central group, was going to fly home in East Prussia, one of the officers of Hitler's entourage Colonel Brandt already at the airport approached Lieutenant von Shlabrendorf. On behalf of his boss General von Treskova he turned to his adjutant with Hitler's innocent request: transfer to Berlin genshtabovskomu General Shtifu contractions supposedly with brandy. Brandt did not refuse. While the Fuhrer at the ramp said goodbye to the army generals of the group, standing...