See the new section Breakfast with 1+1 "History Lessons". Why do we celebrate Defender's Day on October 14? Why did the Soviet authorities want to destroy St. Michael's Cathedral? Why did Russia sell Alaska to America for nothing? How did Philip Orlyk manage to become a hetman from a simple clerk? But what price did he pay for his dreams of an independent Ukraine? Caribbean crisis. How did humanity find itself one step away from its own destruction? How Great Britain Lived During the War: Life in the Dark, Outback Evacuation, Food Shortages and the Queen in the Army. Why the First World War became tragic for Ukrainians. See about this in the "History Lessons" section.