The most terrible and secret secrets of the Soviet Union. Three mystical secrets from the declassified archives of the KGB

08.03.2016

Many events took place within the Soviet Union, the existence of which was carefully hidden. It is known that even today the FSB hides the secrets of the USSR. People's curiosity does not fade, so more and more magazines are compiling lists of the most mysterious events. Memories of former intelligence officers are considered especially valuable information. Curiosity about this topic has also spread to the West - the American magazine Foreign Policy published its ranking of the mysterious events of the Soviet Union. The places in our ranking are very arbitrary, since all events are shrouded in mystery, and it is impossible to assign one of them a certain weight and degree of secrecy. Until now, the public does not know their reasons for their appearance and the characteristics within each. We present the Top 10 most hidden secrets of the USSR.

10. Sea Monster

In 1966, an American spy satellite spotted a Russian seaplane in the Caspian Sea. The American government was puzzled, since the Russian aircraft was much larger than conventional US aircraft. Studying the structure of the ship, American experts concluded that the dimensions of the wing are too large to allow the plane to take off. The ship received the name “Sea Monster” because of its unusual structure: the aircraft’s engines were located closer to the nose than to the wings. The Caspian monster looked like a mixture of a ship and an airplane. According to assumptions, the ship took off several meters from the water. In the USSR it was forbidden to even pronounce the name of the mysterious ship. All that was known was that huge sums of money were invested in the construction of the seaplane. The military had high hopes for the new development - the ship could transport hundreds of military personnel, and also reach a speed of 500 km per hour. The most important advantage of the Sea Monster was that, despite its size, it remained invisible to radar. In fact, seaplane is not a completely appropriate name for this vessel. Later, the Sea Monster received a different name - ekranoplan. As a result of the collapse of the USSR, the curiosity of the American authorities in the new Russian development faded.

9. Party Gold

The fate of the gold and foreign exchange funds of the USSR excited the public in the 90s. The disappearance of the party's gold reserves was one of the most discussed topics. However, no one ever found out the truth. Even political figures took part in the search for party funds. Many politicians who, in one way or another, were related to the party’s “big money” were regularly called in for questioning. It was not possible to obtain specific information, since almost everyone stated that the “Gold of the Party” was nothing more than a myth. Suspicions about impressive audit funds arose after the collapse of the USSR. One of the most popular versions is that the gold reserves of the parties are stored in foreign accounts. The size of the fund is rumored to be in the billions of dollars. However, to date the existence of these funds has not been proven.

8. Nuclear suitcase

The topic of portable nuclear devices was actively discussed in 1997-1998. The “nuclear suitcase” became known after a statement by the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Lebed. He personally reported the disappearance of several portable missiles. Once in the hands of terrorists, these weapons posed a worldwide danger. Events in Russia in the first half of the 90s weakened the economic and political situation in the country, as a result of which access to nuclear weapons was opened to most of the population. According to Alexey Arbatov, the existence of a nuclear suitcase is ambiguous. Until 1997, the topic of portable guns was not discussed. According to experts, this information relates to a very short period of time. Due to the insufficient amount of information, it cannot be considered reliable and cannot be used as a verified source for further actions. The first mention of portable weapons appeared in 1997. According to all assumptions, nuclear warheads were seen in the possession of the Chechen government. A special commission was created, which managed to find 48 warheads out of 132. Thus, the fate of 84 portable devices remains unknown. Military experts assumed that portable nuclear devices were small in size, had little power, and were stored disassembled in peacetime.

7. Cuban Missile Crisis

The so-called “October Crisis” occurred in 1962 as a result of the confrontation between the USA and the USSR. The essence of the conflict was the secret movement of Russian military bases into Cuba. In 1961, American authorities decided to deploy a medium-range missile, the Jupiter, in Turkey. According to experts, in the event of hostilities, the missiles could reach the capital of the Soviet Union, as well as important industrial centers. In preparation for these events, the USSR authorities decided to station their military units in Cuba. This allowed Soviet forces to be prepared for possible attacks. The American side was concerned about the deployment of Soviet missiles near the US coast. President John Kennedy organized a meeting of advisers to resolve the Caribbean conflict. Diplomatic methods of solution were immediately ruled out. Only military actions were welcomed. The advisers came to a common decision: a naval blockade or an ultimatum. The Cuban Missile Crisis played a turning point in the Cold War. However, many still ask the question: “Why were Soviet military units stationed in Cuba?” The secrecy of this case lies in the fact that no one was able to see plausible protocols and official documents dating back to 1962. Perhaps, in order to remain a leader in the situation, sometimes you need to show ingenuity and cunning. Photo of USSR military bases in Cuba:

6. Silence of Gorbachev

The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred on April 26, 1986. However, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the tragedy only two weeks later. The April 27 issue of the Pravda newspaper writes about a cleanup event that was organized in honor of Lenin’s birthday. Unlike the Soviet media, Swedish newspapers published news about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 28. What were the Soviet authorities hiding? Why did the cleanup work turn out to be so much more important than the tragedy at Chernobyl? According to some versions, it is believed that the authorities did not have special devices in their arsenal that could measure the power of an atomic strike. The Soviet authorities were not prepared for such a tragedy, much less to admit this failure. News about the subbotnik was published for several more days. Further news columns were devoted to the celebration of May Day. And only on May 4, with a small headline, small notes about what happened at Chernobyl appeared in the newspapers “Pravda” and “Trud”. Despite the fact that this event is a real tragedy, it was published as “Visit to the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.” It is worth noting that the Soviet authorities actively prevented the intervention of other countries. On May 5, the leadership of the USSR expressed gratitude to the countries that wanted to help, but emphasized that they could cope on their own. What is the reason for Gorbachev’s silence? Why did the public learn about the tragedy only two weeks later, when foreign newspapers reported on what had happened the very next day? The answers to these questions still remain unknown.

5. Operation Flute

The development of biological weapons was strictly prohibited. However, it was known that the Soviet authorities were secretly preparing for the coming biological warfare. The KGB was involved in the development of biological weapons. According to the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the parties did not have the right to create such weapons. However, contrary to this, the Soviet authorities began work already in 1926. An outbreak of any infection or epidemic was immediately covered under the cover of state secrets. Information about biological weapons was available to four people - M. Gorbachev, D. Yatzov, V. Kryuchkov and L. Zaikov. Other politicians were told not to worry. The public pinned its hopes on witnesses to Operation Flute, but the response was silence. According to assumptions, people who had access to classified information had no right to disclose it. Everything is explained by a certain signed document, which states that in case of information leakage, the culprit will be punished. The Soviet people were not destined to learn complete and reliable information. The KGB services carefully cleaned out the archives and hid all documents that could provide any information about the development of biological weapons.

4. Kremlin fears

Yuri Andropov is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic politicians of the Soviet regime. It is still unknown how he managed to inherit the position of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1981, the government agencies of the KGB and GRU were ordered to carefully monitor all US military activities. An operation was organized during which reconnaissance was carried out about military exercises and weapons of the American side. Every detail was recorded by the intelligence services. There is negligible information about this intelligence. The question arises: were the Soviet authorities afraid of a future war? Perhaps the government wanted to be prepared for unforeseen circumstances.

3. Ural bunker

A secret military complex was discovered in the Southern Urals. The existence of the Ural bunker dates back to the Cold War. According to assumptions, the bunker plays the role of some kind of shelter in the event of a nuclear war. Also, the underground complex serves as a base for weapons development. Curious tourists say that it is forbidden to light a fire near the bunker, make noise, and in general, it is not recommended to attract attention to oneself. The closed base is guarded. Armed soldiers and rangers are constantly on duty there. Any passerby they don't like is immediately subjected to interrogation. In fact, the Ural bunker is an underground city. It is equipped with all communications. The city in the mountain is designed to accommodate 300 thousand people. Recently, current President Vladimir Putin has been increasingly visiting a secret complex in the Urals. When asked why the base was built, the president did not answer exactly. What is known is that construction has been ongoing since the Cold War, and the reasons are kept strictly secret.

2. Defense budget

American intelligence agencies have been trying for a long time to calculate how much the Soviet authorities spent on the defense of the USSR. The CIA is confident that spending on defensive power amounted to at least 20% of the USSR economy. The exact numbers are unknown, but the fact that the military training of the USSR was at the highest level remains a fact.

1. The effectiveness of USSR intelligence

This topic has aroused the interest of American journalists for many years. The effectiveness of Soviet intelligence was studied by US intelligence agencies, but to no avail. It was not possible to find exact data on the amount of raw materials consumed and consumed. The American side only assumed that due to a lack of information, USSR intelligence used materials from news newspapers. In the meantime, information about the activities of USSR intelligence is prohibited. Curious American journalists were never able to find out the secret of the Soviet intelligence services. It has already been said before, and it was known, that foreign journalists are looking for tricks in the facts in order to show Russia not in the best light. The Soviet authorities tried to carefully hide some events from the public. Their number can only be guessed, because the above describes only part of the secrets that are available as information to almost every citizen.

Our Top 10 most hidden secrets of the USSR also presented those moments that we managed to find out about after a long time. One of the main rules of the Soviet authorities was: if they ordered not to wash dirty linen in public, then so be it.

Gorbachev's silence

Having made the announcement about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant only two weeks after the tragedy, the then General Secretary of the party caused many rumors: why was he silent? This is now explained by the fact that there simply were no suitable dosimeters capable of measuring such a strong background radiation.

Biological weapons

There is evidence that back in 1942, Stalin used biological weapons against the Germans, infecting them with tularemia using rats (this version has not been confirmed). But it is known for sure that the development of such weapons was very active. Where they are today, what happened to them, the public does not know.

Caribbean crisis

Why did Cuba host Soviet nuclear weapons, and what did Nikita Khrushchev say to Fidel and Raul Castro, as well as Che Guevara? The secret protocols of these negotiations, dated 1962, have not been seen to this day.

KGB Operation Flute

When the “traitor to the Motherland” (for Americans, of course) - US scientist Ken Alibek - defected to the USSR and headed the biological weapons program, the main goal of Operation Flute was the development of psychotropic substances for special operations and even political assassinations. Only Alibek himself knows how it all ended.

Kremlin fears

They say that in 1981, Yuri Andropov was simply in a panic, expecting a US nuclear attack any day now. The KGB and GRU had a clear order to monitor any information about this, and most of the intelligence bit by bit collected information about American exercises - was it not veiled, they say, preparation for war?

Ural bunker

It was rumored that the underground bunker “Grotto” in the Urals was in fact the headquarters of the strategic missile forces, the only one in the country capable of surviving a nuclear attack. Americans are still scratching their heads to this day, why was it built?

Defense budget

The effectiveness of USSR intelligence

Are Russian intelligence officers any good? - their overseas colleagues ask themselves. If guys watched the legendary film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” at least once, the question would disappear by itself, the men’s online magazine M PORT is sure. However, there is a version that the Soviet “spies” reported to the top leadership only what the elderly bosses wanted to hear - and nothing from above.

Well, it will take a long time to guess where the truth is and where the fiction is: Soviet secrets are Soviet, so that no one will ever know them. Apart from the Soviet people themselves, of course, who we all remain in our hearts.

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In Soviet times there was not only no sex, but also no mysticism. But this did not make it any less mystical. And the investigation into such cases, as usual, reached a dead end... While laying a tunnel for the Moscow metro in the area of Herzen Street and Kalininsky Prospekt, workers came across the ruins of the oprichnina palace of Ivan the Terrible, which, as is known, stood outside the walls of the Kremlin.

As the legend says, the territory of the palace was covered with an elbow-thick layer of river sand so that it could absorb the blood of the victims tortured by order of the king...

As the newspapers wrote at the time:

“Metrostroy workers who helped archaeologists in excavations complained that their hands were completely dirty with stinking red mud, which they could not wash off for weeks. And throughout the entire time their hands were red, they practically did not sleep at night.”

“All this time they were in some kind of borderline state; the workers were severely tormented by nightmare visions. Everywhere they heard the cries of the tortured, who begged for mercy, the cries of terrifying curses. And the unfortunate people, including professional archaeologists, ceased to distinguish nightmares from no less nightmarish reality.

And the matter, in the end, ended with the fact that three builders with a completely upset psyche made a rack out of a simple trolley and tortured two student trainees on it to death. After this, further excavations were stopped.”

The Trinity-Sergius Monastery was founded near St. Petersburg in 1732.

There was a cemetery at the monastery where, as was customary, nobles and priests were buried. The revolution came and the monastery was “safely” closed. And in the 30s, on the site of the monastery, a school was placed in which they trained riflemen for paramilitary guards, headed by a certain comrade Feldman.

And under the pretext of “fighting obscurantism,” he, commanding the cadets, began to diligently destroy tombstones in the cemetery. And soon, in the very premises of the former monastery, something strange began to happen: at night in the corridors they began to hear someone’s steps, incomprehensible voices and groans. Some shadows began to appear, with the smell of decay...

And Comrade Feldman’s depression did not keep him waiting long; he fell into it thoroughly and began to drink heavily, and soon he shot himself, leaving a very strange note that he was being pursued by “two white elders”...
They began to investigate his suicide, and came to the conclusion that it was he who drank himself to delirium tremens... The war passed and a police school was placed in the building, and in the place where the cemetery was, a parade ground was set up for drill training of cadets. And again there was talk about ghosts who began to be seen in the corridors...

But the police school remained in the former monastery until the 1990s. They said that when girls began to be recruited to the school, one cadet once complained that someone, under the cover of darkness, had snuck into the women’s barracks and climbed into her bed... The cadet described the potential rapist as... old, very pale and smelling dampness and decay. And to top it all off, according to her assurances, the voluptuous old man was as cold as ice...

Another creepy story is connected with a secret object called ZKP-Tagansky, or GO-42. It was built during the Cold War, when the Soviet government feared the use of nuclear weapons by the Americans. One day, while working at this site, in front of the workers, the foreman of the metro construction workers fell into the elevator shaft. Immediately the workers sank to the bottom of the shaft, and... there was no one there.

Three days later, the foreman’s body was found at the end of one of the farthest tunnels. No one could explain how the corpse could get there. There were no characteristic traumatic injuries on the body: not a single scratch or abrasion. But the corpse was completely drained of blood... Several decades passed and the new government decided to reconstruct the underground city on Taganka.

There were people who said that they met a man in the tunnels with a face as white as a piece of paper. And according to rumors, he looked like that same unfortunate foreman who turned into either a ghost or a vampire...

Communist Russia was an example of openness and political transparency. This is not a statement that is often heard, at least outside of North Korea. (Although, if you've read this, chances are you're not there.) Either way, the sarcasm serves as a reminder that the Soviet Union really loved keeping secrets—here are ten secrets you may not have known about.

10. The world's worst nuclear disaster (at that time)
When people hear about major nuclear disasters, most people think of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Few people know about the third nuclear disaster - the Kyshtym accident of 1957, which occurred near the city of Kyshtym in southern Russia. As with the Chernobyl accident, the main cause of the disaster was poor design, namely the construction of a cooling system that was impossible to repair. When coolant started leaking from one of the tanks, workers simply turned it off and left it alone for a year. Who needs cooling systems in Siberia?

It turns out that the containers in which radioactive waste are stored need cooling. The temperature in the tank rose to 350 degrees Celsius, which eventually led to an explosion that threw the 160-ton concrete lid into the air (which was originally 8 meters underground). Radioactive substances spread over 20,000 square kilometers.

The homes of 11,000 people were destroyed after the surrounding areas were evacuated, and approximately 270,000 people were exposed to radiation. It was only in 1976 that a Soviet emigrant first mentioned the disaster in the Western press. The CIA had known about the disaster since the 60s, but, fearing negative American attitudes toward their own nuclear industry, decided to downplay the severity of the accident. Only in 1989, three years after the Chernobyl accident, the details of the disaster in Kyshtym became known to the public.

9. Manned lunar program

In May 1961, US President John Kennedy announced that he believed the US should put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. By that time, the Soviet Union was leading the space race—the first object launched into orbit, the first animal in orbit, and the first person in space. However, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to visit the Moon, thereby defeating the Soviet Union in this race. In a race in which the Soviet Union did not officially take part - until 1990, the USSR denied that they had their own manned lunar program. It was part of the policy that every space program was kept secret until it was successful.

The Soviet Union was forced to partially acknowledge the program's existence in August 1981 when the Soviet satellite Kosmos 434, launched in 1971, entered the atmosphere over Australia. The Australian government, concerned that there might be nuclear material on board, was assured by the Soviet Foreign Minister that the satellite was an experimental lunar lander.

Other details of the program, including test runs, were hidden. The testing of lunar space suits during the docking of spacecraft in 1969 was presented as part of the construction of the space station - the USSR continued to claim that they had no plans to land on the Moon. As a result, the failed Soviet program to land on the Moon was closed in 1976.

8. Treasure of creativity

In the 1990s, Western journalists and diplomats were invited to a secret museum hidden in the remote city of Nukus, Uzbekistan. The museum housed hundreds of works of art dating back to the beginning of the Stalinist regime, when artists were forced to conform to the ideals of the Communist Party. “Decomposing bourgeois creativity” was replaced by paintings from factories, and without the participation of Igor Savitsky (collector), most of the work of artists of that time would have been completely lost.

Savitsky convinced artists and their families to entrust their work to him. He hid them in Nukus, a city surrounded by hundreds of kilometers of desert.

This is a unique item on this list because it tells the story of something that was hidden not so much from the outside world as from an oppressive regime. While the importance of creativity itself remains an open question, the value of the story of how creativity was kept secret for decades is beyond doubt.

7. Death of an astronaut

The Soviet Union “erased” cosmonauts from its history more than once. For example, data about the first astronaut to die during the space race was hidden. Valentin Bondarenko died during training in March 1961. Its existence was not known in the West until 1982, and public recognition followed only in 1986. Those who are faint of heart should refrain from reading the next paragraph.

During an isolation exercise in a pressure chamber, Bondarenko made a fatal mistake. After removing the medical device and cleaning his skin with alcohol, he threw cotton wool onto the hot stove he was using to make his tea, causing it to burst into flames. When he tried to put out the fire with his sleeve, the 100% oxygen atmosphere caused his clothes to catch fire. It took several minutes to open the door. By that time, the astronaut had suffered third-degree burns all over his body, except for his feet - the only place where the doctor could find blood vessels. Bondarenko's skin, hair and eyes were burned. He whispered, "It hurts too much... do something to stop the pain." Sixteen hours later he died.

Denying this incident just to avoid bad news was a very bad decision.

6. Mass famine - one of the worst in history
Many people have heard about the famine (Holodomor) of 1932, but internal and external attempts to hide this fact are worthy of mention. In the early 1930s, the policies of the Soviet Union led (whether intentionally or not) to the deaths of several million people.

This would seem difficult to hide from the outside world, but fortunately for Stalin and his subordinates, the rest of the world oscillated between willful ignorance and denial of the facts.

The New York Times, like the rest of the American press, hid or downplayed the famine in the USSR. Stalin organized several pre-arranged tours for foreign commissions: the shops were filled with food, but anyone who dared to approach the store was arrested; the streets were washed and all the peasants were replaced by members of the Communist Party. H. G. Wells from England and George Bernard Shaw from Ireland said that rumors of famine were unfounded. Moreover, after the French Prime Minister visited Ukraine, he described it as a “blooming garden.”

By the time the results of the 1937 census were classified, the famine had already been overcome. Despite the fact that the number of victims of the Holodomor is comparable to the Holocaust, the assessment of hunger as a crime against humanity was made only in the last ten years.

5. Ekranoplan

In 1966, an American spy satellite captured images of an unfinished Russian seaplane. The plane was larger than any aircraft the United States owned. It was so large that, according to experts, such a wing span would not allow the plane to fly well. What was even stranger was that the plane's engines were much closer to the nose than to the wings. The Americans were puzzled and remained puzzled until the USSR collapsed 25 years later. The Caspian Sea Monster, as it was called then, was an ekranoplan - a vehicle similar to a mixture of an airplane and a ship that flies just a few meters from the water.

Even mentioning the name of the device was prohibited to those who participated in its development, despite the fact that huge sums of money were allocated for the project. In the future, these devices, of course, were very useful. They could transport hundreds of soldiers or even several tanks at speeds of 500 km/h, while remaining undetected by radar. They are even more fuel efficient than the best modern cargo aircraft. The Soviet Union even built one such device, 2.5 times longer than the Boeing 747, equipped with 8 jet engines and six nuclear warheads on the roof (what else can be installed on a jet tank delivery ship?)

4. Worst rocket disaster ever

The disregard for health and safety was not limited to nuclear waste. On October 23, 1960, a new secret missile, the R-16, was being prepared for launch in the Soviet Union. Near the launcher, which housed a rocket using a new type of fuel, there were many specialists. A nitric acid leak formed in the rocket - the only correct solution in this case was to begin the evacuation of everyone who was nearby.

However, instead, project commander Mitrofan Nedelin ordered the leak to be patched. When the explosion occurred, everyone on the launch pad died immediately. The fireball was hot enough to melt the surface of the site, leaving many who tried to escape stranded and burned alive. More than a hundred people died as a result of the incident. It remains the worst missile disaster in history.

Soviet propaganda immediately began its work. It was alleged that Nedelin died in a plane crash. Reports of the explosion were presented as rumors sweeping the USSR. The first confirmation of the incident appeared only in 1989. To date, a monument has been erected dedicated to those who died in that disaster (but not to Nedelin himself). Although he officially remains a hero, those with any connection to the disaster remember him as the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people entrusted to him.

3. Smallpox Outbreak (and Containment Program)
In 1948, the Soviet Union established a secret biological weapons laboratory on an island in the Aral Sea. The laboratory was engaged in turning anthrax and bubonic plague into weapons. They also developed smallpox weapons and even conducted an outdoor test in 1971. In a mysterious turn of events, a weapon designed to cause an outbreak of smallpox, when activated in the open, actually caused an outbreak of smallpox. Ten people fell ill and three died. Hundreds of people were quarantined, and within 2 weeks, 50 thousand people from surrounding areas received smallpox vaccinations.

The incident became widely known only in 2002. The outbreak was effectively prevented, but despite the scale of the incident, Moscow did not acknowledge what had happened. This is unfortunate because there were valuable lessons to be learned from this case about what could happen if biological weapons ever fell into the hands of terrorists.

2. Dozens of cities

In the south of Russia there is a city that was not on any map. There were no bus services that stopped there, and no road signs confirming its existence. The postal addresses in it were listed as Chelyabinsk-65, although Chelyabinsk was almost 100 kilometers from it. Its current name is Ozersk and, despite the fact that tens of thousands of people lived in it, the existence of the city was unknown even in Russia until 1986. The secrecy was caused by the presence of a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant here. There was an explosion at this plant in 1957, but due to secrecy, the disaster was named after the city, which was located a few kilometers from Ozyorsk. This city was Kyshtym.

Ozersk is one of dozens of secret cities in the USSR. At the moment, 42 such cities are known, but it is believed that about 15 more cities are still under the cover of secrecy. The residents of these cities were provided with better food, schools and amenities than the rest of the country. Those who still reside in such cities cling to their isolation - the few outsiders allowed into the cities are usually escorted by guards.

In an increasingly open and global world, many are leaving closed cities and there is likely to be some limit to how long these cities can remain closed. However, many of these cities continue to serve their original function - be it plutonium production or supplying the marine fleet.

1. Katyn massacre
As with the 1932 famine, international denial of the Katyn massacre earned these killings a top spot on this list. In the 1940s, the NKVD killed more than 22,000 prisoners from Poland and buried them in mass graves. According to the official version, fascist troops were responsible for this. The truth was recognized only in 1990. So far, everything is predictable - however, this cover-up of the crime is at the top of the list due to the fact that the execution was hidden not only by the forces of the Soviet Union, but also with the help of the leaders of the United States and Great Britain.

Winston Churchill confirmed in an informal conversation that the execution was most likely carried out by the Bolsheviks, who “could be very cruel.” However, he insisted that the Polish government in exile stop making accusations, censor its press, and Churchill also helped prevent an independent investigation into the incident by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The British Ambassador to Poland described it as "using England's good reputation to cover up what the killers covered up with pine needles." Franklin Roosevelt also did not want the blame for the executions to fall on Stalin.

Evidence that the US government knew about the true culprits of the Katyn massacre was suppressed during parliamentary hearings in 1952. Moreover, the only government that told the truth about those events was the government of Nazi Germany. This is another sentence that is read very rarely.

It is easy to criticize the leaders of countries that left criminals essentially unpunished, but Germany and then Japan were the bigger issues, which meant sometimes very difficult decisions had to be made. The Soviet Union, with its military and industrial superpower, was necessary. “The government blames only the common enemy for these events,” Churchill wrote.

Curiosity about this topic has also spread to the West - the American magazine Foreign Policy published its ranking of the mysterious events of the Soviet Union. The places in our ranking are very arbitrary, since all events are shrouded in mystery, and it is impossible to assign one of them a certain weight and degree of secrecy. Until now, the public does not know their reasons for their appearance and the characteristics within each. We present the Top 10 most hidden secrets of the USSR.

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