Oleg Novitsky: The defense of the Brest Fortress is one of the first and most dramatic episodes of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War

Today Brest also got in the virtual history of Twitter, in the account maintained from space by our native, pilot-cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky. "The defense of the Brest Fortress is one of the first and most dramatic episodes of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War," declared our countryman.