The name of Naum Eitingon until recently remained one of the most guarded secrets of the Soviet Union. This man was involved in events that influenced the course of world history.

The childhood of the legendary scout

Naum Eitingon was born on December 6, 1899, not far from Mogilev, in Belarus. His family was quite wealthy, his father, Isaac Eitingon, served as a clerk at a paper mill, and was a member of the board of the Shklov Savings and Loan Association. The mother raised the children, Naum had another brother and two sisters grew up. After graduating from the 7th grade of a commercial school, Eitingon got a job at the Mogilev city government, where he acted as an instructor in the statistics department. On the eve of the revolution of 1917, Naum becomes a member of the organization of the Left SRs. The leaders of this group staked on terrorist methods of struggle. The SR fighters had to be able to shoot well, understand mines and bombs, and also be in good physical shape. The militants used their knowledge and skills against the enemies of the party, among whom were the Bolsheviks.

1917 During the First World War, Mogilev was under the German occupiers, the city government was closed. Eitingon worked first at a concrete plant, then at a warehouse. In November 1918, the Germans left Mogilev and units of the Red Army entered the city. A new government has arrived. The idea of ​​a world revolution fascinated Naum Eitingon, and he joined the ranks of the Bolshevik Party. Soon he was able to prove himself - clashes began in the city between the White Guards and the Red Army, who had been factory workers yesterday. Only unlike them, Eitingon knew how to shoot, understood tactics and strategy - the Socialist-Revolutionary past affected. The rebellion was crushed, and the new authorities paid attention to the young man. Eitingon dreamed of serving the state.

At first, Eitingon was appointed a commissioner of the Gomel region, at the age of 19 he became a deputy of the Gomel Cheka. Nikolai Dolgopolov notes that Eitingon was a hard man. Dzerzhinsky liked this quality, and it is believed that Eitingon was summoned to Moscow at his suggestion.

In 1922, Eitingon was transferred to Moscow. He becomes an employee of the central apparatus of the OGPU, at the same time enters and studies at the eastern faculty of the Military Academy of the General Staff.

In Moscow, Eitingon met his future wife, Anna Shulman. In 1924, the couple's son, Vladimir, was born. But soon the young people broke up.

In 1925, after graduating, Naum Eitingon was enrolled in the staff of the foreign department of the OGPU - this department was engaged in collecting intelligence on the territory of foreign countries. In the autumn of 1925, Eitingon begins his first assignment. He leaves for China under a fictitious name - Leonid Naumov, this name he bore until 1940. In 1925, he meets Olga Zarubina, and the young couple realizes that they are perfect for each other. He adopts Zoya Zarubina, who will be grateful to him all her life.

The beginning of intelligence activities

In 1928, Chinese General Jang Zou Lin began secret negotiations with the Japanese. He wanted to create the Manchurian Republic on the border with Russia. Stalin only saw a threat in the negotiations. Eitingon received an order to destroy the general from Moscow. He prepared to blow up the train in which Zou Lin was riding. After returning to Moscow, Naum Eitingon was transferred to a special department of the OGPU - a department for especially important and top-secret assignments.

Spanish Civil War

In 1936, Eitingon leaves for another business trip. At the same time, a civil war began in Spain between the Republicans and Franco's pro-fascists. The USSR sent help to the Republicans, among whom was Naum Eitingon - he worked in Spain under the name of Leonid Kotov. He served as deputy head of the NKVD residence in Spain, and also led the Spanish partisans, for which the Spaniards respectfully spoke of him as "our general Kotov."

In the summer of 1938, the Spanish residency was headed by Naum Eitingon. The appointment coincided with a turning point in the course of the Spanish Civil War. The Francoists, with the combat support of parts of the German legion "Condor", occupied the capital of the Republicans, Barcelona. Nahum Eitingon had to urgently rescue the Republican government of Spain and members of the international brigades - and all this under the constant threat of attack from the Francoists and German saboteurs. Eitingon did the impossible - he helped to evacuate the Republicans, volunteers, Spanish gold, first to France, then to Mexico, where there was Spanish emigration.

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

Naum Eitingon returned to the USSR in 1939. At this time, the new People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, Lavrenty Beria, was getting rid of the supporters of his predecessor. Most of Eitingon's colleagues and acquaintances with whom he worked in Spain were arrested or shot. Almost all heads of the foreign department of the NKVD and about 70% of intelligence officers were repressed. Eitingon was also close to arrest. They wanted to charge him with "squandering" public funds and working for British intelligence. But instead of prison, the intelligence officer was given a new task - Eitingon was ordered to kill Leon Trotsky.

In 1929, Leon Trotsky left the USSR after losing to Stalin. Already abroad, he began to express his anti-Soviet views, spoke out against the five-year plan for the development of the economy, criticized the ideas of industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. Trotsky predicted the defeat of the USSR in the war with Nazi Germany. Trotsky began to gather new supporters around him, including those abroad. Such vigorous activity of Trotsky irritated Stalin. And the leader decided to physically eliminate his political opponent.

After the arrest of the Siqueiros group, Naum Eitingon activated the second plan to eliminate Leon Trotsky. A lone killer entered the case; Eitingon chose Ramon Mercader for this role. This is a Spanish aristocrat recruited in 1937. In the winter of 1940, Mercader met Trotsky's personal secretary, Sylvia Agelov, under the personal influence of a wealthy playboy. Gallantry, manners of an aristocrat and wealth made the right impression on Sylvia. Ramon proposed to her and Sylvia agreed. So Mercader became a member of Trotsky's house as Sylvia's fiancé.

August 20, 1940 Ramon Mercader asked to evaluate his article for one of the newspapers. Together they went into the office, and when Trotsky bent over the papers, Mercader hit him on the head with a summer axe. Trotsky shouted, Trotsky's guards ran to the shout and started beating Mercader. Ramon's assailant was later handed over to the police. But the assassination attempt achieved its goal - the next day, Leon Trotsky died. Operation "duck" was successfully completed.

Activities during the Great Patriotic War

After the outbreak of the war, Naum Eitingon led the organization of the First Patriotic Special Forces detachments. On the basis of a special foreign intelligence group, a separate special-purpose motorized rifle brigade, OMSBON, was formed. In a short time, professional assassins and saboteurs were trained from scouts, athletes and members of foreign communist parties at the Dynamo stadium. They were prepared for being thrown into the rear of the Germans, to perform special tasks.

At first, in the rear of the Germans, because of the short time for preparation, poorly trained groups of saboteurs were thrown. Everyone knew about this - both the special forces soldiers and their teachers. Eitingon, as a professional, understood this, and before leaving, he invited the fighters to his home to give personal instructions and support them.

Despite the losses, the fighters of the special purpose brigade managed to complete most of the tasks assigned to them. Among the most high-profile victories is the kidnapping of the former Russian prince Lvov, who worked closely with the Nazis. He was taken by plane to Moscow and handed over to a military tribunal. Another high-profile operation - in the city of Rovno they kidnapped and destroyed Major General of the German army Igen.

Having completed the formation of a special forces brigade, Eitingon returned to his direct duties - collecting intelligence and carrying out targeted sabotage. The new task is the organization of sabotage in the Turkish Dardanelles. Eitingon's group included six people - experts in the field of explosives and radio operators. They settled in Turkey, under the guise of emigrants, and Naum Isaakovich arrived in Istanbul as the consul of the USSR Leonid Naumov. Muza Malinovskaya acted as his wife. Muse Malinovskaya is a famous "seven thousandth", a woman who jumped with a parachute from a height of 7 thousand meters. She made more than a hundred jumps, was a first-class radio operator. Muse Malinovskaya conquered Eitingon, after returning to Moscow they will begin to live together. In 1943, the couple had a son, Leonid, in 1946, a daughter, Muza.

On the morning of February 24, 1942, Ambassador Franz von Pappen and his wife were walking along Atatürk Boulevard in Ankara. Suddenly, an explosive device went off in the hands of a stranger. The terrorist died, the police decided that the deceased was a Soviet agent. Historians of the special services name Naum Eitingon as the organizer of the assassination attempt on Franz von Pappen. But there is no exact evidence, the archives are closed. It is known that six months later, Eitingon left Turkey, and in Moscow he received a promotion - he became deputy head of the 4th department of the NKVD.

In the new position of one of the leaders of the sabotage department, Eitingon was to organize the largest counterintelligence operation of the Great Patriotic War.

In the summer of 1944, east of Minsk, Soviet troops surrounded a 100,000-strong group of Germans. In Moscow, the idea arose to hold a "radio game" with the German Abwehr. It was decided to plant a legend to the Wehrmacht high command that a large German military unit was hiding in the Belarusian forests. This part is experiencing a shortage of weapons, food and medicine. Having deceived the Germans, the Soviet counterintelligence intended to inflict significant material damage on them. On August 18, disinformation was sent to the Germans by radio, and the Nazis believed in the existence of such a military unit.

The first German paratroopers arrived in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bLake Peschanoe, they were caught and included in the radio game. The main goal of Operation Berezino is to catch as many enemy saboteurs as possible. German planes regularly dropped money, weapons, medicines, campaign leaflets. On December 21, 1944, at the Berezino site, Soviet intelligence officers captured a group of six people - saboteurs from the personal team of Otto Skorzeny. Eitingon, during the operation, joined with the most famous saboteur of the Third Reich - and won this confrontation. Until the end of the war, Skorzeny believed in the existence of a German unit wandering in the Belarusian forests. Eitingon proved to be a brilliant counterintelligence officer.

A string of arrests

After the war, Naum Eitingon received another military rank of major general. About what he did for the next six years, his biography says briefly - he was engaged in the liquidation of Polish, Lithuanian and Uighur nationalist formations.

A new era has begun, the “thaw”. The post of leader was taken by Nikita Khrushchev, who hated Stalin, Beria (who was shot) and everything connected with them. Eitingon was again under attack, because Beria freed him. In the summer of 1953, he was arrested as a member of the Beria conspiracy, allegedly to destroy the Soviet government. Eitingon was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The legendary intelligence officer was imprisoned in the Vladimir Central, Evgenia Alliluyeva, Konstantin Ordzhonikidze, Pavel Sudoplatov were in the neighboring cells.

In prison, a stomach ulcer worsened, Eitingon almost died. But the prison doctors performed an operation and saved Eitingon.

Naum Eitingon was released on March 20, 1964. Released from prison, deprived of awards and military rank. Requests for rehabilitation went unheeded. But his authority among colleagues remained very high, his merits were known and remembered. Thanks to the patronage of the KGB, Eitingon received a Moscow residence permit and an editorial position at the International Relations publishing house.

The legendary scout was rehabilitated only in 1992, 11 years after his death. "The last knight of Soviet intelligence" liked to repeat - "do what you must, and come what may."

Gevork Andreevich Vartanyan was born on February 17, 1924 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Andrey Vasilyevich Vartanyan, an Iranian citizen, director of an oil mill.

In 1930, when Gevork was six years old, the family left for Iran. His father was connected with the Soviet foreign intelligence and left the USSR on her instructions. Under the guise of commercial activities, Andrei Vasilievich conducted active intelligence work. It was under the influence of his father that Gevork became a scout.

Gevork Vartanyan connected his fate with Soviet intelligence at the age of 16, when in February 1940 he established direct contact with the NKVD station in Tehran. On behalf of the resident, Gevork led a special group to identify fascist agents and German intelligence agents in Tehran and other Iranian cities. In just two years, his group identified about 400 people, one way or another connected with German intelligence.

The exploits of fighters and commanders, soldiers and officers of the Red Army, committed by them during the Great Patriotic War, are known to many, but the combat pages of the NKVD, the people's commissariat, turned by Russophobic propaganda into a bunch of executioners and sadists, these days often remain in the shadows.

Part 1. Lion hunter

The fate of Pavel Sudoplatov, a scout and saboteur, may well form the basis of an excellent movie. What? Judge for yourself.

Born in 1907 in a poor and large Melitopol family, inspired by Bukharin's book "The ABC of the Revolution", as a 12-year-old boy, Pavel dropped out of school and left his home, escaping along with an equestrian detachment passing through the city. The Red Army soldiers in those places fought with Ukrainian nationalists - the detachments of Petliura and Konovalets (with whom his life would later collide again).

The pupil of the regiment participated in the battles, was captured, fled, was a homeless child in Odessa, and after the capture of the city by the Reds, by 1921, he again found himself in the ranks of the Red Army. In the same 21st, as one of the few who can read and write, he falls into the detachment of the Special Department (previously ambushed and suffered heavy losses) as a cryptographer. So the 14-year-old Pavel began his service in the state security organs, and at 15 he already went to the border troops. Further, Sudoplatov's career went up: from the 23rd year in the Komsomol work, from the 25th - in the Melitopol GPU, from the 28th - a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and an employee of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR. In the same period of his life, Sudoplatov married a girl from Gomel, Emma Kaganova (in fact, her name was Shulamith Krimker).

In 1932, Pavel was transferred to Moscow, and the following year he was sent to work in the Foreign Department of the GPU, where Sudoplatov, who was fluent in Ukrainian, was assigned to work against Ukrainian nationalists. There, the courier and illegal agent also quickly advanced in the service, the assignments became more and more serious - the intelligence officer was instructed to prepare sabotage, intelligence operations, and create intelligence networks. Pavel was classified, his reports were signed with the pseudonym "Andrey", and only his immediate leaders and immediate family knew about him.

Regularly traveling abroad, in 1935 he was able to infiltrate the environment of the leaders of the OUN in Berlin. Konovalets, already known to us, headed the Ukrainian nationalists. His plans included the capture of a number of regions of the Ukrainian SSR and the creation of an "independent" Ukraine, moreover, under the leadership of the Third Reich. The nationalists prepared combat detachments and terrorist groups.

Konovalets

"Befriended" with Konovalets Sudoplatov in 1938 received an order to eliminate the main nationalist. To do this, they made a bomb, disguised as a box of chocolates beloved by Konovalets. When the nationalist was finished, a split occurred in the ranks of the OUN - Bandera and Melnik (Konovalets' successor) fought among themselves, and Sudoplatov, under the guise of a Polish volunteer, went to Spain. There, in the ranks of the international partisan detachment, he met Ramon Mercader del Rio.

Returning to Moscow, Pavel met with Beria, to whom he reported on the results of the liquidation of the OUN leader and continued to work in the NKVD. challenge to Stalin.

The leader instructed Sudoplatov to prepare an operation to eliminate Trotsky, who had settled in Mexico, Beria had to report personally, and Pavel himself was appointed deputy head of intelligence, giving the broadest authority to recruit a group of militants.

To help himself, Sudoplatov took an experienced saboteur Naum Eitingon. Nickname in the Cheka - Leonid. It was he who recruited people familiar from the war in Spain who could infiltrate Trotsky's entourage. By that time, Lev Davidovich, by the way, had developed a storm of activity: he tried with might and main to split and incite the world communist movement against Stalin, collaborated with the Abwehr and helped organize a rebellion against the republican government in Barcelona.

Taki Trotsky

The operation to eliminate Trotsky was called the "Duck", although Sudoplatov himself called it the "Lion Hunt". Eitingon created 2 groups - "Horse" and "Mother". The first was led by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the founders of the Spanish Communist Party, and the second by the former anarchist Caridad Mercader. Both groups were unaware of each other's existence.

The first assassination attempt, led by Siqueiros, turned out to be unsuccessful - the fighters who recruited a security guard named Hart (US citizen), in military and police uniforms, broke into the courtyard of Trotsky's house and opened fire on the bedroom. They shelled the room for 15 minutes, but neither Trotsky nor his wife were hurt. The only result of the attempt was a scratch on the leg of Trotsky's grandson, who was sleeping in the next room, and the only victim was a recruited guard who was killed for conspiracy. Trotsky himself never found out about Hart's role in the assassination, so a memorial plaque appeared on the guard's house: "In memory of Robert Sheldon Hart, 1915-1940, killed by Stalin."

Siqueiros

Sudoplatov analyzed the operation: the reason for the failure was called poor preparation. The members of the Siqueiros group who fought in Spain had neither experience in special operations, nor experience in searching and cleaning buildings. In general, Beria was furious, Eitingon announced his readiness to be punished, and Stalin ordered the use of the second group. Trotsky, too, wasted no time in fortifying the house and strengthening the guards. Members of the Horse group were arrested, but Siqueiros, although he admitted his guilt, stated that the attack had one purpose: to exert psychological pressure and force Trotsky to leave Mexico.

In the second group, an important role was assigned to the son of her leader, Ramon Mercader, already familiar to Sudoplatov. Back in 1938, he met in Paris the sister of an employee of Trotsky's secretariat, a resident of New York, Sylvia Ageloff. Relations began between them, the matter was approaching marriage ... It is worth noting here that Mercader posed as the Belgian Jacques Montrard, a wealthy heir, the son of the Belgian consul in Tehran. In 1939, under the name of Frank Jackson, with a fake Canadian passport, he arrived in New York. He told Sylvia that in this way he “mows down” from the army. A little later, Ramon moved to Mexico, where he was waiting for his bride. She came to her lover, thanks to her sister got a job in Trotsky's secretariat, and Mercader, playing the role of a staunch Trotskyist, got access to the estate of the future victim ...

On August 20, 1940, Mercader remained in Trotsky's office, inviting him to read his article. Deep in reading, he did not notice how the saboteur took out an ice pick from under his cloak. The blow fell on the back of the head, but Trotsky not only did not die immediately, but also managed to utter a cry ... Mercader was arrested and declared personal hostility to be the motive for the murder. He managed to hide his name for 6 years, and Ramon was released only in 1960. Then, during a visit to the USSR, Mercader received the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

Sudoplatov, in addition to leading the assassination of Trotsky, continued to engage in intelligence - he traveled under the guise of an "adviser to Molotov" to Latvia, participated in the operation to annex Western Ukraine ...

Part 2. In defense of the Fatherland

Among the awards of Pavel Sudoplatov is the Order of Suvorov II degree. It was awarded to the commanders of corps, divisions and brigades, their deputies and chiefs of staff:

For organizing a battle to defeat an enemy corps or division, achieved with lesser forces, as a result of a sudden and decisive attack based on the full interaction of firepower, equipment and manpower;

For breaking through a modern defensive line of the enemy, developing a breakthrough and organizing relentless pursuit, encirclement and destruction of the enemy;

For organizing a battle while surrounded by numerically superior enemy forces, exiting this encirclement and maintaining the combat capability of their units, their weapons and equipment;

For a deep raid behind enemy lines carried out by an armored formation, as a result of which a sensitive blow was inflicted on the enemy, ensuring the successful completion of an army operation.

Commander's award, so to speak. Sudoplatov, it seems, was not a commander. Or?..

On June 16, 41, Pavel Anatolyevich received a call: “Beria, having called me to his place, gave the order to organize a special group from among the intelligence officers in his direct subordination. She was supposed to carry out reconnaissance and sabotage actions in case of war. At the moment, our first task was to create a strike group from among experienced saboteurs capable of resisting any attempt to use provocative incidents on the border as a pretext for starting a war, ”Sudoplatov wrote in his book Intelligence and the Kremlin.

Nahum Eitingon

Naum Eitingon became Sudoplatov's deputy, his task was to provide communication between the fighters of the group and the military command. Both security officers developed plans for the destruction of fuel depots that supplied the German motorized tank units, which had already begun to concentrate at our borders, but a conversation with General Pavlov, commander of the Western Special Military District, which took place on June 20, showed a terrible thing: the general had little interest in the situation on the border and he confidently declared that even if the Germans suddenly attacked, there would be no problems. On June 22, when equipment not even prepared for battle fell into the hands of the treacherously attacking Germans and their European allies, it turned out that Pavlov's assessments were very far from reality. By the way, on June 18, a directive was sent to the troops to bring them to full combat readiness, which this very general, as well as his subordinates, was tritely ignored. You already know the price of such arbitrariness ...

But the border guards subordinate to the NKVD, as you know, held out to the last. Like many commanders and soldiers of the Red Army, cut off from command.

On the very first day of the War, the relevance of sabotage work in the German rear, into which the Soviet territory was rapidly turning, increased a thousandfold. Sudoplatov began to manage this work, but the documentation appeared later - only on July 5, when the Special Group was officially created, on the basis of the First (Intelligence) Directorate of the NKVD. In addition to sabotage, the group had to deal with the opening of enemy intelligence networks, the extraction of intelligence, radio games and misinformation of the enemy.

“We needed a huge number of people, thousands and thousands. No states of the NKGB could stand it. So the idea arose to create a special military unit, which would have to deal exclusively with reconnaissance and sabotage work, ”the scout recalled. Where to get footage? Experienced Chekists recalled from retirement, from prisons, a recruitment of volunteers began. More than 800 athletes got into the group - without exaggeration, the whole color of Soviet sports: football players, runners, weightlifters, boxers, shooters ... Among them, for example, the Znamensky brothers runners or the famous boxer Nikolai Korolev. As a result, the group included ... 25 thousand people! This is how a separate motorized rifle brigade for special purposes (OMSBON) appeared - a real special forces of the NKVD.

From Sudoplatov's book "Special Operations": "Under our command we had more than twenty-five thousand soldiers and commanders, of which two thousand were foreigners - Germans, Austrians, Spaniards, Americans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Poles, Czechs, Bulgarians and Romanians."

Some statistics of the combat work of the Brigade:

derailed 1415 enemy echelons;

more than 120 garrisons, commandant's offices and headquarters were defeated;

more than 90 km of rail tracks were blown up;

about 700 km of telephone and telegraph cable were destroyed;

335 railway and highway bridges were blown up and burned down;

344 industrial enterprises and warehouses were destroyed;

liquidated 87 high-ranking German officials;

exposed and neutralized 2045 enemy intelligence groups;

in more than a thousand open battles with punishers, parts of the Wehrmacht and the SS, more than 150 thousand fascists were destroyed;

27 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The fighters of the brigade accounted for the legendary operations "Concert", "Rail War", "Citadel" ... Not a single Soviet military formation was so effective.

Partisan commander Dmitry Medvedev

It is worth noting that Sudoplatov himself did not "sit out" in Moscow. So, in the summer of the 42nd, a scout gathered a group of climbers in a day and went with them to the Caucasus: to defend the passes and carry out sabotage. The Germans never got the Caucasian oil, and when the group retreated, Pavel Anatolyevich was in the cover detachment ...

But we will return to the Order of Suvorov.

Naturally, German intelligence did not sit still and, of course, actively tried to obtain the most accurate and truthful information about the plans of the Soviet command. Naturally, there was a need to prevent this. Operation "Monastery" was developed, in which the main role belonged to the intelligence officer Alexander Demyanov, and the leadership was Sudoplatov. Coming from the nobility, Demyanov already had contacts with the Germans, and he was taught radio and encryption by none other than Abel himself ...

Alexander Demyanov on the right

In general, at the end of the 41st, Demyanov crossed the front line and spoke about the underground church-monarchist anti-Soviet organization Throne, of which he was a representative, and even was sent just to communicate with the German command. The intelligence officer withstood constant interrogations, checks, the Germans even decided to "shoot" him. German intelligence decided to use the "anti-Soviet" and sent him to study at the Abwehr school, assigned the pseudonym "Max", and already in March 42 sent him to the territory of the USSR. After 2 weeks, the first "disinformation" went to Germany ... In addition to the constant misinformation of the Germans, the operation had other, "side" effects - German agents, saboteurs and liaisons were arrested - about 60 people. At the "Monastery" they also "earned" several million Soviet rubles received from the Germans!

How important was Operation Monastery? Sudoplatov wrote: “On November 4, 1942, “Heine” (“Max”) informed the Abwehr that the Red Army would strike on November 15 not near Stalingrad, but in the North Caucasus and near Rzhev. The Germans expected a blow near Rzhev and repelled it. The encirclement and capture of a group of German troops under the command of Field Marshal Paulus near Stalingrad turned out to be a complete surprise for them, which, ultimately, opened the way for the Red Army to victory over Nazi Germany in May 1945.

It was after Stalingrad that Suvorov, together with Eitingon, received the Order of Suvorov. Well, why not a commander?

And the Germans greatly appreciated Demyanov and even awarded him the Iron Cross ... The Soviet command did not leave the intelligence officer without awards either: he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for Stalingrad ...

Information from "Max" came to the Abwehr until the summer of 1944, when Demyanov was "transferred" from the General Staff to the railway troops, and instead of the "Monastery" operation "Borodino" began. Both radio games were never discovered by German intelligence. The degree of secrecy was such that even Zhukov did not know about the radio game, and in 1943 Churchill warned Stalin about a “mole” working for the Germans in the Soviet General Staff.

Not only against the Germans...

The amount of work placed on the shoulders of Sudoplatov was simply enormous. In the 44th, he was instructed to obtain information on the "Manhattan Project" - the development of the American atomic bomb. The work was organized so successfully that Stalin received the test results almost before Roosevelt ...

RDS-1

The information obtained by Sudoplatov's agents made it possible to greatly speed up the interrupted by the war work on the creation of our nuclear "club".

The contribution of Pavel Anatolyevich to our Victory, as well as to the further security of the USSR, cannot be overestimated, but Khrushchev managed to answer the intelligence officer with terrible ingratitude.

Part 3. "Gratitude"

Again against the nationalists

It so happened that the fate of Sudoplatov made a kind of loop and Pavel Anatolyevich was again instructed to fight the Ukrainian nationalists, who, after the Great Patriotic War, were enough in Western Ukraine. Having gone through the war on the side of the enemy, they did not at all strive to become normal Soviet citizens. And in general...

Only peaceful Ukrainians at the hands of nationalists killed about half a million. And more than 400 thousand Soviet prisoners of war, 220 thousand Poles and 850 thousand Jews. Well, about 5 thousand of their own, not enough Svidomo, were killed. All this was done with the blessing of the Uniate Church, which absolved all the sins of Bandera and prayed in honor of the "invincible German army and its chief leader, Adolf Hitler." It makes no sense to paint the “charitable” deeds of these child-killers, rapists who enthusiastically “fought” with civilians. Suffice it to mention that Khatyn is their handiwork. And it's far from the only thing. By the way, some of the UPA units were led by Uniate priests.

Here is such a "struggle" for "independence".

And after the War, Bandera did not calm down: they robbed, raped, killed ... For example, in the village of Svatovo, near Lvov, 4 young teachers were tortured and killed. Only because they were from the Donbass. I don't know what exactly they did to these girls, but the fate of another teacher, Raisa Borzilo, is well known. She was accused of promoting Soviet power, at first threatened, and then they moved from words to deeds: on December 1, 1945, a young Komsomol member (and she was born in 1924) was seized. The last hours of her life were spent in complete darkness: the girl's eyes were burned out, her tongue was cut off, a five-pointed star was carved on her body, mockingly, then they put a wire loop around her neck and, still alive, tied her to a horse, went for a ride across the field.

Is there no fascism in Ukraine?

And now let's remember May 2, 2014 in Odessa, terror against Russians in Donbass, weddings and other celebrations in German uniforms.

After the Great Patriotic War, about 80 thousand more civilians were killed by Bandera.

Naturally, it was necessary to fight these well-organized and armed non-humans. They were led by Roman Shukhevych, now glorified in Ukraine, aka "General Taras Chuprinka." Here are his words: “The OUN must act in such a way that all those who recognized Soviet power are destroyed. Do not intimidate, but physically destroy! There is no need to be afraid that people will curse us for cruelty. Let half of the 40 million Ukrainian population remain - there is nothing wrong with that ... ". This character, recruited very, very distinguished himself during the war with his atrocities, cruelty, love of torture. He was also one of the authors and executors of the "method" of massacres: the population of the villages was herded into one place, after which mass extermination began. Then the dead fell into pits, covered with earth, and bonfires were lit on mass graves. In just two days, on August 29 and 30 on August 43, Shukhevych's Bandera killed 15 thousand women, old people and children ... By the way, "Chuprinka" was recruited by the Germans back in the 26th year ...

child killer and rapist, hero of Ukraine, Shukhevych

The Chekists took up the fight against the nationalists who remained in the rear of the Red Army in 1944. The activity was aimed at searching for the leaders and destroying the militants, but there were clearly not enough forces, and the number of caches and some kind of support from the locals helped Bandera to continue to do black. Uniate priests also helped them.

In 1949, Stalin instructed Sudoplatov to put an end to nationalist lawlessness: “Comrade Stalin, according to him, is extremely dissatisfied with the work of the security agencies in combating banditry in Western Ukraine. In this regard, I was ordered to focus on the search for the leaders of the Bandera underground and their liquidation. It was said in an unquestioning tone." Sudoplatov went to Lvov.

good bandera - dead bandera

The undercover work began again, the collection of information again. Developed Uniate priests. They were looking for ways to contact Shukhevych's confidants, his mistresses. As a result, they managed to detain Chuprynka's contact Darina Gusyak, who gave false information during interrogation and constantly complained about feeling unwell. She was sent to the infirmary, where there was a “beaten” woman smeared with brilliant green. This woman turned out to be the agent "Rose" - a former nationalist, caught and recruited by the Chekists. She was able to ingratiate herself with Gusyak and she told where to look for Shukhevych.

By the way, Gusyak has survived to this day, still talks about the terrible torture that “damn Muscovites” did on her in order to get information. The new Ukrainian authorities do not forget about the old woman and even reward her.

Prisoner #8

On March 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin died. On June 26, Beria is arrested on charges of treason. Maybe that's when they get killed. On August 21, 1953, on charges of conspiracy, Lieutenant-General Pavel Sudoplatov was arrested in his own office. He was accused of wanting to overthrow the Soviet government and "restore capitalism", accused of creating a special group to destroy the objectionable.

In fact, Khrushchev simply eliminated competitors and witnesses. According to the memoirs of Pavel Anatolyevich, a very curious episode took place: after the annexation of Western Ukraine, Nikita Sergeevich insisted on the resettlement of young people in Siberia and the Far East. Sudoplatov opposed and Stalin listened to his opinion. There were also documents signed by Khrushchev and the head of state security of the Ukrainian SSR Savchenko, speaking of the need for mass repressions in Ukraine.

To avoid interrogations and interfere with the investigation, Sudoplatov decided to resort to a trick that his mentor Sergei Shpigelglas had once taught him: he stopped answering questions and began to starve, eventually falling into prostration. Doctors were forced to declare him unfit for interrogation and place him in a hospital.

Sudoplatov's wife, Emma Kaganova, was able to figure out how to pass information to her husband. The nurse she recruited brought books wrapped in newspapers or old letters. From the newspapers, the scout learned that Beria and six more of his associates were shot, from a letter with the text “the old man was exposed at a general meeting of collective farmers, accountants feel bad, the conditions at the company are still the same, but there is enough money to continue everything and further” he learned about the exposure of Stalin's personality cult.

When the news came about the resignation of Molotov and Kaganovich (1957), Sudoplatov decided that it was time to act and decided to stop the simulation of madness. In 1958, a trial took place and the general was sentenced to 15 years, sent to the Vladimir Central. The scout was released on August 21, 1968, blind in one eye, crippled and survived several heart attacks.

Even in prison, he wrote letters, where he developed methods of countering enemy sabotage groups, after imprisonment he worked as an interpreter, under his old operational pseudonym "Andrey", remaining faithful to the Motherland and not blaming the state for his troubles.

By the way, after the overthrow of Khrushchev, Brezhnev was asked to reconsider the case, but he refused.

Why exactly he managed to survive, Sudoplatov himself did not know. Being the eighth number on the list of those arrested for the "Beria conspiracy", he did not share the fate - execution - with the first seven.

A child of his tough and cruel time, he turned out to be much nobler and more honest than those who rushed to power, who arrested and tortured him, did not change his oath, and even behind bars tried to benefit the Motherland.

The scout was rehabilitated only in 1992, and he died in 1996. The awards and title were returned to Pavel Anatolyevich only a year later.

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