“Save our souls! We are rampant from suffocation. Save our souls, rush to us! ..” A terrible poetic image from the poem by Vladimir Vysotsky in his piercing power is better than any long descriptions expresses the essence of the sensational book that you hold in your hands. These are the narratives of Soviet people who were suffocating in the dying submarines, under the mortal weight of the collapsed ceilings in the cities destroyed by earthquakes, burned alive among the wreckage of broken aircraft, realizing that their death would remain an unknown world; Maybe even their relatives. Because all the information about such disasters – and there were many of them – immediately received the vulture “Top Secret” in order not to violate the idyllic picture of the calm life of the exemplary communist society. The Soviet media reported much more about the destructive American Thornado than about the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, which destroyed the multi -sized city. What can we say about catastrophic events on warships and bits …
Author
Nikolaev Nikolai Nikolaevich
Editor
Zalesskaya M.K.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
Series
Great secrets of history
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