In the early 90s of the twentieth century, a collection of engravings of Khakass rock paintings by the famous Siberian artist Vladimir Kapelko was illegally exported abroad. Estampages (prints on paper of ancient petroglyphs) were made according to the original method of Kapelko. They were given particular value by the fact that most of the drawings themselves have not been preserved. As a result of a special operation by the FSB, the collection returned to its homeland.

On January 28, 1982, the Moscow bohemia was shocked by the news, the authenticity of which was hard to believe, the head of the Union State Circus, Anatoly Kolevatov, was arrested. After all, he was friends with Shchelokov, the all-powerful Minister of the Interior of the Brezhnev era. And here is the “execution” article, bribery on an especially large scale. Allegedly, the head of the Union State Circus imposed a tribute on all circus artists. He accepted valuable gifts and money from them in exchange for foreign tours. During searches in the apartment and at the dacha of Kolevatov, valuables were seized for an unimaginable amount of two million rubles at that time. To take out all these "material evidence" investigators needed a truck.

According to the idea of ​​the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn houses were to become a place where unmarried women could secretly give birth to a child and leave him to be raised by the state. Under the slogan "Give a child to the Fuhrer!" German women were encouraged to give birth to "true Aryans". In reality, the program resulted in mass abduction and removal of children from the USSR and other territories occupied by the Germans to the Lebensborn houses. The film contains a story about the horrors of forced "Germanization" from the lips of living witnesses Vladimir Mazharov and Viktor Mukhamedov, who were brought from Germany to Moscow in 1947; Lydia Khodyreva from Alushta; Jewish girl Zinaida Nikodimova from Minsk, her mother was looking for her daughter in concentration camps, and found her in a shelter for Aryan children; former lieutenant colonel of the GDR army Michael Sturm, who found out about his "Lebensborn" origin only after the death of his parents.

On May 1, 2006, a crime took place in Kursk, which struck all the inhabitants of the region. A shrine was stolen, or rather a list of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "The Sign". According to legend, in 1295, on the day of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, she was found on the root of a tree not far from Kursk, burnt by the Tatars, so she received the name Kursk Root. Many miracles are attributed to the icon. She saved Kursk from hunger in the early 17th century and healed thousands of sick people. One of them was the youth Prokhor Moshnin, who later became the greatest Russian saint Seraphim of Sarov. The shrine survived several assassination attempts, it was chopped down with an ax, burned, and blown up. But she survived! In 1920, the "Sign" icon was taken out of the country by the troops of Baron Wrangel. Today it is located in New York and is considered the main shrine of the Russian Church Abroad. And the list remaining in Kursk is the center of attraction for believers and pilgrims all over Russia. For 400 years, twice a year, in June and September, the icon "The Sign", and then its list, are transferred by the procession from the Root Hermitage to the Znamensky Monastery of Kursk and back. Due to the theft of the shrine, for the first time in hundreds of years, the summer religious procession could not take place. Did the thief understand what he was aiming at? All the police forces of the Kursk region were sent in search of the relic. And after 40 days she was found in Moscow. The tradition was not broken, and the believers regained their shrine.

In September 1943, 40 children aged 6 to 13 were delivered to the German officers' hospital in the village of Starotitarovskaya, from whom doctors pumped out blood for transfusion to wounded German officers. As a result of this operation, all the children died. This is just one of the heinous crimes that the commander of the German occupation forces in the Crimea, General Erwin Eneke, and 11 other German officers at the Sevastopol trial were accused of.

On August 12, 1944, German soldiers of the 16th SS division drove the local residents of the mountainous Tuscan village of Santa Anna di Stazzema to the main square in front of the church. Old people, children, women. The men hid in the woods, there was a rumor that the Germans would come to select strong guys for forced labor in Germany. Having gathered people at the church, the SS men placed machine guns. The priest Innocenzo Lazzeri tried to reason with the invaders, he offered his life in exchange for the life of the parishioners. He was killed first, by a point-blank shot to the head. Then they shot all the rest, 132 people, from machine guns. In total, almost 600 civilians died in the vicinity of Santa Anna that day.