Ryan Johnson's guards and pedestrians

Military everyday life of the Soviet militia, and what they were responsible for in the Great Patriotic guards of order

During the Great Patriotic War, the police were entrusted with tasks that went far beyond their traditional functions. In the harsh wartime, work on the protection of law and order was combined with the identification of fascist saboteurs, the protection of important objects from artillery attacks, and the evacuation of the population and enterprises. Not much is known about the exploits of Soviet militiamen during the war years. Meanwhile, enthusiastic historians have unearthed many facts about the exemplary heroism of employees of the internal affairs bodies, shown in the

Shanghai Russians, or How the White Guards faithfully served the Europeans in China

In the 20th century, the Chinese Russian community was represented not only in Harbin, but also in Shanghai. After the Civil War, the ranks of the emigrants were replenished with the White Guards. Participants of the White movement were forced to leave Russia, dispersed around the world. The Chinese land has also become one of the new places of service for the experienced military. To guard and protect the European representatives who inhabited Shanghai, the Russian community supplied the best soldiers and police

Bodyguards for general secretaries: Why Khrushchev and Gorbachev despised their guards, and Brezhnev was accompanied by submariners

Many books have been written about the protection of Soviet secretaries general and many films have been filmed. The bodyguards from the special unit lived the lives of their charges. But even the absolute dedication of the guards was not always appreciated by the first persons of the state. Some of the bodyguards even managed to become a favorite of the leaders, an influential person, and then just as quickly go to be shot. And sometimes an ordinary walk of the secretary general could turn into a nightmare for the guards

The artist's reflections on pedestrians and walking

Traffic policemen believe that a person becomes a pedestrian, naturally, with the help of law enforcement agencies. In one of her interviews twenty years ago, in the midst of perestroika, Edita Piekha stated that a person is born ready. True, Edita Stanislavovna preferred to remain silent about her grandson. The grandson was born not quite ready, and the grandmother had to share her five-digit surname with him. The fact that a person is born already programmed, humanity has always known. Owl

Pedestrians of all countries, unite

Green, red, yellow traffic lights and funny people depicted on them. It would seem, what could be more familiar and more commonplace? But no! It turns out that each country and each city has its own designs of these little people, as everywhere else has its own designs of traffic lights