Can't Mess Up, But They Messed Up. A Brief Course in Historical Fiascos

"Who are we? We are the authors of the Cat_Cat community, or 'Cats', as it is affectionately called. Cat_Cat is not just another gathering of simple enthusiasts of the past, but a true phenomenon of modern folk history. It is the largest conglomerate of authors in the Runet, each of whom has the right to their own vision of history.
"Errare humanum est," said the ancient Romans, "to err is human." This is hard to dispute, but some mistakes in history have led to fatal consequences of varying scales. It is exactly about such global and not so global miscalculations that our second collection "Can't Mess Up, But They Messed Up" will discuss.

• Who yearned to repeat the success of Alexander the Great but had no chance whatsoever?
• What boy wanted to protect everyone but only made things worse?
• What was the Lebensborn program doomed to?
• What exactly is called a "Trojan horse" of intelligence agencies?
• Why was the life of the Mir space station more complicated than initially expected?"