Brest Fortress. The history of the heroic defense of the fortress is an example of the courage and self-sacrifice of Soviet soldiers at the very beginning of the war. Due to miscalculations by the political leadership, the garrison was almost completely destroyed at the very first moment of the attack. But one can imagine that if the fortress had been prepared for attack, provided with weapons, food and water, then the damage it inflicted on the Germans would have been a hundred times higher, which perhaps could have influenced the outcome of the entire war. And here is the autumn of 1939. Stalin’s instructions: “Prepare for a possible German attack on the USSR.” The wheel of history has turned.