Цю жінку, яка померла в 2008 році, рідні знали як Аллу Михайлівну. Хоча насправді її звали Елла Всеволодівна. Вона ніколи не розповідала, що сталося з її батьком. Хоча й сама напевно не все знала.
Коли Еллі було 8, її батька, фотографа, який від народження носив прізвище Мазюкевич, а потім змінив його на Скамандр, вбила радянська влада. Із нього вибили “зізнання” в роботі на чехословацьку та польську розвідки. А приводом для арешту стало зроблене ним та надруковане в газеті звичайнісіньке фото фабричної будівлі на Дарниці, на якому чиєсь пильне

Буквально майже "КГБ надзюрив у під'їзді".

"У під’їздах будинків, що займають оунівські центри й окремі націоналісти в Західній Німеччині, практикувати оброблення сходів і стін спеціальною смердючою рідиною для того, щоб у німців, які мешкають поруч, створювати неприязні 1/ почуття до емігрантів".

"20 грудня 1959 року нами через агента «Рафаель» проведено заходи з розливання смердючої рідини в м. Мюнхені за відомою Вам адресою: Цеппелінштрассе, 67. Ця акція викликала невдоволення серед німців – мешканців цього будинку, внаслідок чого ними 2/

I would like to remind you that the NKVD shot more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war in 1940 (not only in Katyn). For decades, the Soviet authorities blamed the Nazis for this and destroyed accidentally found human remains, admitting the truth only in 1990. (although in recent years the version about "murders by Germans" has re-entered the Russian mainstream).

“I don’t remember when exactly the Russian soldiers came to our basement. Could be March 6 or 7. I’m a bit confused with the dates. We spent 14 days underground. The night before was terrible, with heavy shelling. That was probably the day the Russians were taking over the city🧵 The next day we heard the roar of military vehicles. Our men looked over the fence of the house we were hiding in. It was the last house in the street facing a field. And that field was full of Russian tanks and APCs. About 30 of them. And then the soldiers came to us.

Foreigners often ask how to help me personally. The only thing I can ask for is to subscribe to my YT channel KGB Files and watch my videos until I can release new ones. Then I'll be able to get the watch hours required for monetization. The link is below. youtube.com/channel/UCZqID…

Well-known Ukrainian army volunteer @serhiyprytula:

POST FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO HELP UKRAINIAN MILITARY FROM ABROAD

Friends! Many people today want to help Ukraine defeat the occupiers. The situation requires us to act quickly and adhere to logistics.

Thread @serhiyprytula So, if your community in the United States, Canada, Australia, or anywhere else has decided to send aid to Ukraine, the protocol below is just for you.

FOR THOSE WHO SEND AID BY PLANE.
Take care of logistics from the airport to the Polish-Ukrainian border!

KGB documents are sometimes related to the present in the most unexpected way. This report (1971) contains a mention of a KGB officer Vasily Loboda. He is the grandfather of the Ukrainian singer Svitlana Loboda. The tabloids wrote about her affair with Till Lindemann. This report was dedicated to one of the Ukrainian dissidents. The fragment tells us that Loboda has information about one of the object's friends. Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Valery Shchekoldin. "Supermagnification". Ulyanovsk, USSR, 1978

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A series of posters with Brezhnev by Boris Lebedev

I collect books related to my articles from the KGB archives. Today I got this one called "Wanted...". This is a Soviet propaganda about Ukrainian nationalists. Authors: Tomáš Řezáč, a Czechoslovakian writer, former dissident who became an agent

thread an agent of the Czechoslovak secret service (StB) with the code name "Repo", and Valentin Tsurkan, KGB colonel, deputy head of intelligence of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR.

Řezáč was interesting to me because he was a friend of the hero of my article,

And a little more about the "Stalinist kebab" in Moscow. Its founder sensed the Stalinist methods (in a very very light version) and seemed to be dissatisfied.

“I was illegally detained at the police station.

Thread They took my passport and my mobile phone, and I had to beg the police officers to let me call my father so that my parents wouldn't worry. And after my long pleading, they agreed to do it all only on speakerphone. But this is a blatant act of lawlessness.

When Sean Connery arrived in the USSR to shoot the film "The Red Tent" (1969), no one knew him by sight, since Bond films were not released in the Soviet distribution. Soviet filmmakers had to look for a photo of the actor before meeting at the airport in order to recognize him. “Our citizens didn't show any interest in the appearance of a world screen star on Soviet land,” the film's director Boris Krishtul recalls. “No one pointed a finger at him and no one rushed for an autograph. At first, it seemed to me, Connery was even happy about it.

As a reward for his work for the CIA, spy Adolf Tolkachev asked for a Sony Walkman player for his son, headphones with an overhead arch, cassettes with rock music. In addition, he asked for pencils of different hardness, drawing pens, ink, washing eraser

Thread and drawing pens for drawing lessons for his son Oleg, a student of an architectural institute.

Tolkachev complained that even erasers in Moscow are crappy, they leave dirty marks on paper.