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On March 13, 1954, the security officers were removed from the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a new department was formed: the State Security Committee of the CCCP - KGB.

The new structure was in charge of intelligence, operational search activities and state border protection. In addition, the task of the KGB was to provide the CPSU Central Committee with information affecting state security.

The concept is broad, to be sure: it includes the personal life of dissidents and the study of unidentified flying objects.

Separating truth from fiction and recognizing disinformation intended for “controlled leakage” is now almost impossible. So, to believe or not to believe in the truth of the declassified secrets and mysteries of the KGB archives is everyone’s personal right.

The current security officers who worked in the structure during its heyday, some with a smile, some with irritation, brush it off: no secret developments were carried out, nothing paranormal was studied. But, like any other closed organization that has influence on people’s destinies, the KGB could not avoid being a hoax.

The activities of the committee are overgrown with rumors and legends, and even partial declassification of the archives cannot dispel them. Moreover, the archives of the former KGB were seriously cleaned in the mid-50s. In addition, the wave of declassification that began in 1991-1992 quickly subsided, and now the release of data is proceeding at an almost imperceptible pace.

Hitler: dead or saved?

Disputes about the circumstances of Hitler's death have not subsided since May 1945. Did he commit suicide or was the body of a double found in the bunker? What happened to the remains of the Fuhrer?

In February 1962, captured documents from World War II were transferred to the TsGAOR of the USSR (the modern State Archives of the Russian Federation) for storage. And along with them - fragments of a skull and a sofa armrest with traces of blood.

As Vasily Khristoforov, head of the registration and archival collections department of the FSB, told Interfax, the remains were found during an investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the former Reich President of Germany in 1946. A forensic examination identified the partially charred remains found as fragments of the parietal bones and occipital bone of an adult. The act dated May 8, 1945 states: the discovered pieces of the skull “may have fallen from the corpse taken from the pit on May 5, 1945.”

“Documentary materials with the results of the repeated investigation were combined into a case with the symbolic name “Myth.” The materials of the said case, as well as the materials of the investigation into the circumstances of the Fuhrer’s death for 1945, stored in the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia, were declassified in the 90s of the last century and became available to the general public,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

What remained of the top of the Nazi elite and did not end up in the KGB archives did not immediately find rest: the bones were repeatedly reburied, and on March 13, 1970, Andropov ordered the removal and destruction of the remains of Hitler, Braun and the Goebbels couple. This is how the plan for the secret event “Archive” appeared, carried out by the forces of the operational group of the Special Department of the KGB of the 3rd Army of the GSVG. Two acts were drawn up. The latter states: “The destruction of the remains was carried out by burning them at the stake in a vacant lot near the city of Schönebeck, 11 kilometers from Magdeburg. The remains were burned out, crushed into ash along with coal, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River.”

It is difficult to say what Andropov was guided by when giving such an order. Most likely, he feared - and not without reason - that even after a while the fascist regime would have followers, and the burial place of the ideologist of the dictatorship would become a place of pilgrimage.

By the way, in 2002, the Americans announced that they had X-rays that were kept by the dentist, SS Oberführer Hugo Blaschke. Reconciliation with fragments available in the archives of the Russian Federation once again confirmed the authenticity of parts of Hitler’s jaw.

But despite the seemingly indisputable evidence, the version that the Fuhrer managed to leave Germany, occupied by Soviet troops, does not leave modern researchers alone. They usually look for it in Patagonia. Indeed, Argentina after World War II gave shelter to many Nazis who tried to escape justice. There were even witnesses that Hitler, along with other fugitives, appeared here in 1947. It’s hard to believe: even the official radio of Nazi Germany on that memorable day announced the death of the Fuhrer in the unequal struggle against Bolshevism.

Marshal Georgy Zhukov was the first to question the fact of Hitler’s suicide. A month after the victory, he said: “The situation is very mysterious. We did not find Hitler’s identified corpse. I cannot say anything affirmative about Hitler’s fate. At the very last minute he could have flown out of Berlin, since the runways allowed this.” It was June 10th. And the body was found on May 5, the autopsy report was dated May 8... Why did the question of the authenticity of the Fuhrer’s body arise only a month later?

The official version of Soviet historians is as follows: on April 30, 1945, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide. At the same time, according to eyewitnesses, the Fuhrer shot himself. By the way, during the autopsy, glass was found in the oral cavity, which speaks in favor of the version with poison.

Unidentified flying objects

Anton Pervushin, in his author’s investigation, cites one illustrative story characterizing the KGB’s attitude to the phenomenon. The writer and assistant to the chairman of the committee, Igor Sinitsyn, who worked for Yuri Andropov from 1973 to 1979, once loved to tell this story.

“Once, while looking through the foreign press, I came across a series of articles about unidentified flying objects - UFOs... I dictated a summary of them to the stenographer in Russian and took them to the chairman along with the magazines.... He quickly leafed through the materials. After thinking a little, he "I suddenly took out a thin folder from my desk drawer. The folder contained a report from one of the officers of the 3rd Directorate, that is, military counterintelligence," Sinitsyn recalled.

The information conveyed to Andropov could easily become the plot of a science fiction film: the officer, while on a night fishing trip with his friends, watched as one of the stars approached the Earth and took the form of an aircraft. The navigator estimated the size and location of the object by eye: diameter - about 50 meters, height - approximately five hundred meters above sea level.

"He saw two bright rays emerge from the center of the UFO. One of the rays stood vertically to the surface of the water and rested on it. The other ray, like a searchlight, searched the expanse of water around the boat. Suddenly it stopped, illuminating the boat. Shining several more on it seconds, the beam went out. Along with it, the second, vertical beam went out,” Sinitsyn quoted the counterintelligence report as saying.

According to his own testimony, these materials later came to Kirilenko and over time seem to have been lost in the archives. This is roughly what skeptics reduce the KGB's probable interest in the UFO problem to: pretending that it is interesting, but in reality burying the materials in the archives as potentially insignificant.

In November 1969, almost 60 years after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite (which, according to some researchers, was not a fragment of a celestial body, but a crashed spaceship), there was a report of another fall of an unidentified object on the territory of the Soviet Union. Not far from the village of Berezovsky in the Sverdlovsk region, several luminous balls were seen in the sky, one of which began to lose altitude, fell, and was then followed by a strong explosion. In the late 1990s, a number of media outlets obtained a film that supposedly captured the work of investigators and scientists at the site of an alleged UFO crash in the Urals. The work was supervised by “a man who looked like a KGB officer.”

“Our family lived in Sverdlovsk at that time, and my relatives even worked in the regional party committee. However, even there, almost no one knew the whole truth about the incident. In Berezovsky, where our friends lived, everyone accepted the legend about the exploded granary "Those who saw the UFO chose not to spread the word. The disk was taken out, presumably, in the dark, in order to avoid unnecessary witnesses," contemporaries of the events recalled.

It is noteworthy that even ufologists themselves, people initially inclined to believe in stories about UFOs, criticized these videos: the uniform of Russian soldiers, their manner of holding weapons, cars flashing in the frame - all this did not inspire confidence even among susceptible people. True, the denial of one particular video does not mean that adherents of the belief in UFOs are abandoning their beliefs.

Vladimir Azhazha, a ufologist and acoustic engineer by training, said this: “Does the state hide any information about UFOs from the public, we must assume that yes. On what basis? Based on the list of information that constitutes state and military secrets. Indeed, in "In 1993, the State Security Committee of the Russian Federation, at the written request of the then president of the UFO Association of Pilot-Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, handed over to the UFO Center, which I headed, about 1,300 documents related to UFOs. These were reports from official bodies, commanders of military units, messages from private individuals."

Occult interests

In the 1920-30s, a prominent figure in the Cheka/OGPU/NKVD (predecessor of the KGB) Gleb Bokiy, the same one who created laboratories for the development of drugs to influence the consciousness of those arrested, became interested in studying extrasensory perception and even searched for the legendary Shambhala.

After his execution in 1937, folders with the results of the experiments allegedly ended up in the secret archives of the KGB. After Stalin's death, some of the documents were irretrievably lost, the rest ended up in the committee's basements. Under Khrushchev, work continued: America was worried about rumors periodically coming from overseas about the invention of biogenerators, mechanisms that control thinking.

Separately, it is worth mentioning another object of close attention of the Soviet security forces - the famous mentalist Wolf Messing. Despite the fact that he himself, and later his biographers, willingly shared intriguing stories about the outstanding abilities of the hypnotist, the KGB archives did not preserve any documentary evidence of the “miracles” performed by Messing. In particular, neither Soviet nor German documents contain information that Messing fled Germany after he predicted the fall of fascism, and Hitler placed a bounty on his head. It is also impossible to confirm or deny the data that Messing personally met with Stalin and he tested his outstanding abilities, forcing him to perform certain tasks.

On the other hand, information about Ninel Kulagina, who in 1968 attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies with her extraordinary abilities, has been preserved. This woman’s abilities (or lack thereof?) are still controversial: among lovers of the supernatural she is revered as a pioneer, and among the scientific fraternity her achievements cause at least an ironic grin.

Meanwhile, video chronicles of those years recorded how Kulagina, without the help of her hand or any devices, rotates the compass needle and moves small objects, such as a matchbox. During the experiments, the woman complained of back pain, and her pulse was 180 beats per minute. Its secret was supposedly that the energy field of the hands, thanks to the superconcentration of the subject, could move objects falling within its zone of influence.

It is also known that after the end of World War II, a unique device made on Hitler’s personal order came to the Soviet Union as a trophy: it was used for astrological predictions of a military-political nature. The device was faulty, but Soviet engineers restored it, and it was transferred to the astronomical station near Kislovodsk.

Knowledgeable people said that FSB Major General Georgy Rogozin (in 1992-1996, the former first deputy head of the presidential security service and who received the nickname “Nostradamus in uniform” for his studies on astrology and telekinesis) used captured SS archives concerning occult sciences in his research.

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Most Soviet secrets still remain unsolved - in the old days they knew how to keep their mouths shut! And yet, the irrepressible American journalists decided to shed at least a little light on the formidable secrets of the Union.

Our secrets are the most secret in the world / foreignpolicy.com

Foreign Policy magazine took up this closely, publishing the ten most, in their opinion, terrible secrets from the times of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

So, here they are - the terrible secrets that American minds are struggling with:

Party gold

The question – where did the billions of dollars (in gold and cash) left by the Communist Party after the collapse of the USSR go – torments everyone. However, to this day there is no evidence that the money is in foreign banks (no matter how hard Yegor Gaidar and the Kroll Associates detective agency tried).

Bomb in a suitcase

Has the Union developed portable atomic bombs? - the CIA was tormented by guesses. The deceased General Lebed, foaming at the mouth, argued that he had almost personally seen these “pocket” nuclear missiles. Detractors argued that the general simply confused them with anti-personnel mines (albeit also atomic).

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. Except for the Soviet people themselves, of course – who we all remain in our hearts.

Here are the answers to some of the mysteries!

Party Gold.

In fact, it was wasted by the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. What exactly was Party Gold and where did it come from? As you know, Lenin’s Bolsheviks, having seized power in Russia with the help of the Kaiser’s special services, their initial goal was to rob Russia, Russian Capitalists and Tsar Nicholas II personally. According to statistics from 1917, the Romanov family had the largest personal capital in the world (not including Russian values ​​and possessions). The tsar kept this money in Swiss banks, which he trusted completely. It is safe to say that the total wealth of the Romanov family (including Russian possessions and valuables) exceeded the wealth of the rest of Humanity combined. The main reason that the Bolsheviks REMAINED in power for as many as 70 years lies in the stupidity of the Kaiser’s intelligence, which failed to understand that the status of their slaves, criminals of Lenin’s gang caught by the Germans, changed dramatically after October 1917. The Germans needed to change their tone and rhetoric. That is, statements like: “Quickly stop causing harm to Russia, because we are suffering from a wild, unsatisfied desire to quickly return you to the cell and hang you!” should have sounded different. But the Germans did not understand this change in status and lost control of the situation. As a result, the Leninists bought a regiment of German Guards with stolen money, which was supposed to arrest and/or destroy the Bolshevik elite at the end of the Sabotage Operation. This is how the legend of the “Latvian Riflemen” appeared. Yes, in this regiment in each company there was a Russian-speaking agent, usually from the Baltic states, but overall the regiment was one of the best Kaiser Guards combat units. The amounts that Lenin and his clique paid to the soldiers of this regiment for betrayal are amazing even now. Having gained a foothold in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the Bolsheviks began systematically sending looted wealth to the United States. Unfortunately, the Kaiser’s intelligence “lit up” there too, terribly frightening the brave Leninists, who realized that if they left the borders of Russia, they would be found and killed not by the Germans, but by the Americans or the British. This forced them to fight for power. By this time, the Tsar was in exile in Finland, and his role and the role of the family were played by doubles, of which the Romanovs had many. The only Romanova captured by the Bolsheviks due to Kerensky's betrayal was Princess Anastasia, who was used as a hostage and later forced into prostitution to serve the Bolshevik elite. Intimidating the Tsar with threats of hurting his daughter, the Leninists lured money out of Nicholas II for several years. The Tsar, due to a lack of understanding of the situation, after the death of the Tsarevich in Finland, left for the USA, where he was left by the Princesses, who condemned his Abdication of the Throne and “Cowardly Inactivity” in relation to German Intelligence, its agent Prince Yusupov-Sodomite, and Lenin’s Revolutionaries. Soon the Tsarina died in the USA, considering herself the culprit of all the troubles of the Family and Russia (quite rightly, we note). Left completely alone and living in an invisible “aquarium” made of FBI agents, Nikolai followed his Wife in 25, barely surviving his main enemy, Lenin. It is still unclear whether the Tsar was poisoned by agents of Hoover - a Soviet spy and FBI Director (not to be confused with President Hoover - also a Soviet agent) or died himself from melancholy and loneliness, which seems most likely. The Bolsheviks invested the wealth they stole from Russia into the American Securities Market, deliberately causing several terrible stock market crashes in order to completely “shake out” the American Capitalists - not agents of the NKVD - from ownership of the American Economy. Having captured the American Economy, the Bolsheviks tried to “manage” it brilliantly, which caused devastation in the hitherto prosperous USA, the collapse of everything and food riots. The Bolsheviks were afraid that a People's Revolution might occur in America and refused to intervene in the Economy, retaining for themselves the main sources of profit in the form of securities of enterprises and firms, which were managed by hired competent managers. This made it possible not only to avoid a crisis in the United States, but also to continue and even increase payments of huge sums of money to the “initiates.” If before the 24th year Ilyich was the chief treasurer, then after the 24th year these functions were taken over by Hoover, the director of the American FBI. This entire gigantic organization was secretly called the “Trust”, and its main goal was to carry out the World Revolution on the model of the Russian one. It’s strange, but a small thing prevented the Trust’s plans: Hitler, nurtured, nurtured and educated by the Trust, after the Anschluss of Czechoslovakia, became mad with greed, realized the true motives of his Moscow “Guides,” and eventually attacked his masters.. One day the name “Trust” was discredited. Immediately, a gigantic “Black Operation” with the same name was organized through the KGB with the sole purpose of Concealing the Truth. By the time President Kennedy came to power, Hoover considered it necessary to reduce payments to the Soviet side, while he also prohibited the development of the Soviet Economy for fear of becoming unnecessary. Naturally, the Soviet side began to “revolt” and threaten to refuse obedience. Then Hoover risked doing the unthinkable: After Kennedy won the election, Hoover lifted the veil of secrecy over the true relations between the USSR and the USA. No, he, of course, did not dare to reveal the whole truth! That is, he did not say that he is actually the Emperor of the united USSR-USA Empire! He said that the Bolsheviks invested money stolen from Russian Capitalists and the Tsar into the American Economy and were receiving secret dividends from these investments. And also that during Lend-Lease, most of the Equity of these investments was spent, and the Soviets say they don’t even want to hear about reducing the payment amounts!

Kennedy was shocked!

He demanded to immediately stop ALL secret payments in favor of the Soviets and immediately stop all unauthorized contacts between American and Soviet secret structures!

John did not know that such important areas of the American Economy as:

1. Printing money

2. State and preservation of the country’s Gold Reserve

3. Federal Reserve (American Central Bank)

4. Main enterprises of the military-industrial complex

5. All enterprises with the name General in the company name and with a capitalization of more than a billion

6. Ford car manufacturer

7. All manufacturers of airplanes and other aircraft

9. All leading insurance companies

10. All the largest financial structures

The leading shareholders of these enterprises, however, believed that the Bolsheviks received everything they were owed. They didn't want to hear any more about the Trust payments. Kennedy's refusal to continue payments was conveyed to Moscow and caused a furious reaction from the Soviets, who decided that they had been "dumped." Then a typical Russian racketeer showdown began with the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba, threats of atomic bombings and other nonsense. Kennedy relented and the Soviets lowered their demands. That is, the “arrow” turned out to be successful, the parties “exchanged” without killing. After this, the economic situation in the USSR began to rapidly deteriorate, because the aging and losing his mind Hoover demanded to “Keep the Party Line” and not allow even small and agricultural businesses, and revenues from the United States were greatly reduced and were actively stolen. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, the Party's Gold had been completely spent. The few million (a tiny drop) remaining from this Gold were, after Hoover's death, taken out of American control and invested in the Chinese Economy. This amount was so insignificant compared to the initial capital that there was little point in tracking it. Former US President Carter can best explain the fate of this money. If he or someone else decides to declassify "Hoover's Accounting Books", then the world will be able to follow all the vicissitudes of relations between the USSR and the USA, and at the same time have a good laugh at the "Fearless and Uncompromising Heroes of the Cold War"

This is how the story of the Gold Party ended

Bomb in a suitcase

Such devices were developed in the USSR and assembled in the USSR and East Germany. It is possible that "Unit assembly" was carried out in Germany. According to rumors, one of the East German leaders along the Stasi line (almost Honecker himself) suffered from an idiotic fear of being kidnapped by CIA agents. Therefore, in addition to the poison hidden in all his wardrobe items, he always carried with him during his Foreign Visits a person with this very “Bomb in a Suitcase”. The officer with the briefcase in his hand had no idea what he was wearing. The paranoid leader had the control panel. The bomb exploded by pressing a button on the remote control. Two of these bombs were sold on the East German Black Market and taken to Pakistan. The fresh Red Mercury (not to be confused with Mercury Oxide) needed to compactly detonate these devices was allegedly purchased by Pakistani agents from Hungary in the early 90s. X.

Gorbachev's silence

Chernobyl shocked the Soviet leadership! Panic and the unexpected complete Radiation illiteracy of the “specialists”, including the workers and managers of the Station themselves, created an Information Vacuum, which was immediately filled with rumors about three-headed Mutants and cannibalistic mugs. Making statements at the Highest Level with such Information preparation was at least fraught. This is just my observation; M. S. Gorbachev himself can tell the truth.

Biological weapons

The Soviet Biological Weapons Program ended with the Nuclear Bombing of an Island in the Aral Sea where Secret Research was being conducted. The nature of these studies can be understood by watching the action movie “Resident Evil” starring Milla Jovovich. What I don’t understand is how the little FeBeErie, who whispered the plot of the film to the Script Author, even knew about the essence of the research being carried out on the island to create Super Soldiers as the Highest Form of Biological Weapons. When these artificially created monsters rebelled and killed their Creators, the island was subjected to two nuclear strikes. The first blow was supposed to destroy the multi-story bugger, and the second was to destroy the evil spirits shocked by the first blow. After two or three months, a division of soldiers was sent to the island, who were sure that they were in the Arctic Ocean or somewhere in Siberia. These soldiers used dosimeters to find and collect all the radioactive remains from the explosion. Since none of the soldiers were torn apart and eaten alive, the results of the “cleansing” were considered satisfactory. Immediately after these events, the USSR abandoned all Breeding and other Non-Genetic Secret Research, recognized the Greatness and Genius of Genetics, and became an ardent supporter of In-depth Genetic Research. (Lesson well learned). Research on pathogenic microbes and viruses was carried out in the USSR only as part of a general Paranoia about the response to possible similar research on a Probable Enemy. The USSR did not achieve any significant successes. Attempts to connect Mycoplasma and the Ebola Virus were unsuccessful due to the rapid death of the researchers. I don't think anyone else has done anything like this before.

Caribbean crisis

The “Racketeer Showdown” I described above between the Soviet and American members of the Hooverite Trust was called the Caribbean Crisis. The late Castro was not privy to the details, did not know about the existence of the Trust, and firmly believed in the Cold War, so the Protocols of his negotiations with the Soviets will not shed light on the causes of the Crisis. It is especially useless to ask any questions to Fidel's double, who is now "Acting as the Great Leader of the Cuban Revolution" in Havana.

KGB Operation Flute

I'm honestly shocked, but I didn't know anything about the existence of such an Operation. At the age of about 14-15 years old, my courtyard “friends” of the same age “harassed” me for several weeks with some idiotic jokes about “playing the flute” (I went to a music school to take a Piano class), but I thought that it was in them that Congenital Inferiority and the associated craving for Perversion began to manifest itself (both “friends” were the offspring of Military Counterintelligence Officers).

Kremlin fears

Obviously, Andropov received my Prediction of the fate of the USSR, made in September 1981. I predicted then in a private conversation that in 20 years the USSR would not exist, and in its place there would be separate enclaves the size of the current regions, which would be controlled by current party workers and mid-level Komsomol members with the help of criminal gangs, which would be called Armies and Police. Unlike his dumber young Comrades in Arms of all Nationalities, Andropov took my words seriously. What he couldn’t understand was that stupidity and greed are stronger and more terrible than thermonuclear bombs, so he panicked and waited for a nuclear strike from the United States

Ural Bunker Grotto

All. What I was able to find out was that, aft of the Soviets' known primary purpose as the Hidden Command Post, the Grotto was intended to be used by other Forces not under the control of the Soviet Leadership. Later plans changed, but the Grotto remained...

Defense Budget

CIA analysts should be guessing not about what part of the Soviet GDP the USSR Defense Budget was, but what part of the American GDP it was! The economy of the USSR was costly, miserable, unprofitable! The budget, all the numbers, everything was a pure swindle. The exception was receipts from Exports and Secret receipts from the United States through Clearing Zones through the Hooverite Trust. Only by learning these numbers can one understand the true gigantism of the Soviet Defense Budget and realize the greatness of the Soviet military-industrial complex.

Efficiency of USSR Intelligence

I consider all intelligence services in the world to be extremely ineffective.

Moreover, I perceive all the intelligence services of the world as Organized Criminal Groups, causing harm first of all to the country that created this structure, and only after that to the Potential Enemy, who is also not guilty of anything yet!

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.

Are you interested in the secrets of our past?

In the Soviet Union they knew how to keep secrets and loved them. So, in fact, it is easier to govern a country whose citizens live under the motto “the less you know, the better you sleep.” Both glasnost and the subsequent collapse of the Land of Soviets were never able to break through the half-century armor of omissions and outright lies.

What, for example, was hidden behind the scenes of the Cuban missile crisis? Where did portable nuclear bombs come from in the Soviet Union? And the most interesting thing is where, in the end, did the billions from the emergency reserve of “party gold” go?

Lunar program

By the 1960s, the USSR was leading the space race. The first satellite, the first animal, the first man - so how did it happen that the Americans managed to get to the moon? Until 1981, the Soviet Union generally denied the existence of a manned lunar program - until the Cosmos-434 satellite entered the atmosphere over Australia. Then we had to admit that it was an experimental spacecraft to the Moon, but no other details of the program are still known.

Portable nuclear bomb

Rumors that the Soviet Union had developed portable nuclear weapons turned out to be true. Of unforgettable memory, General Lebed let slip to the Western press that he himself saw these nuclear devices. The so-called “nuclear backpack” RYA-6, weighing 25 kilograms and having a capacity of one kiloton, was in service with the GRU.

Biological weapons

According to rumors, biological weapons appeared in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Western experts still believe that in 1942, Soviet scientists infected German invaders with tularemia, which was carried by previously infected rats.

Caribbean crisis

In 1962, several rounds of secret negotiations took place between Nikita Khrushchev, Raul Castro and Enresto Che Guevara. The results are well known to everyone: Cuba agreed to place nuclear weapons on its territory - but what could the leader of the USSR promise in exchange for such a risk?

Operation Flute

Everyone knows that the Americans conducted experiments on the use of psychotropic drugs on their soldiers. The head of the direction, scientists Ken Alibek, became a defector and headed the development of psychotropic drugs already under the development of the KGB. Operation Flute took place in several stages: murders, kidnappings, and re-recruitment were carried out using the latest psychotropic drugs.

Last Strike Bunker

The secret underground bunker “Grotto” has been featured in the press more than once. Each time, the existence of this dinosaur from the times of the USSR was explained differently - either uranium is being mined here, or a shelter is being built for the government. The Americans believed for a long time (and perhaps they were right) that the secret headquarters of the “retaliatory strike” strategic missile forces was located here.

Party gold

Probably the most delicious secret of the post-Soviet period is the question of where the notorious “party gold” actually went. Huge, truly incredible amounts of money in gold remained with the Communist Party after the collapse of the USSR. And then they simply disappeared into thin air.

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 wing dimensions were 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.