We got to Hitler on Twitter through dating Elizabeth II and Rustam Minnikhanov 
Netizens decided to test the theory of six handshakes people are separated by no more than five levels of common acquaintances, and they counted how many acquaintances each of them had before famous historical figures. A corresponding discussion appeared on Twitter.
For example, a user with the nickname @kocizum found out that he needed only five handshakes to get to the Fuehrer of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. Among the “connecting links” of the chain, he mentioned the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, the British Queen Elizabeth II and the wife of the former King of Great Britain Wallis Simpson. For some, it took only three handshakes – thanks to a chain through the former USSR Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who personally met Hitler in Berlin in 1940.
User @AlcoHistory gave almost a similar number of acquaintances, also mentioning an English politician, 1 the 1st Earl of Halifax Edward Wood, and @new_katatsumuri – the late Senator Vadim Tyulpanov. @AlcoHistory immediately added that through the former governor of the Arkhangelsk region Anatoly Efremov, the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin and the ex-head of the USSR government Alexei Kosygin, he knows the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
“Today the myth about seven handshakes, when the path from Twitter to Hitler himself is four handshakes, and some have as many as three, ”@kocizum later concluded.
On September 1, it was reported that a traveler from St. Petersburg, Alexander Plastkov, decided to unite people according to all of Russia with the help of the theory of six handshakes and walked for this 63 cities. His goal is 500 cities.