For most of their colorful political careers, Gorbachev and Yeltsin waged an irreconcilable struggle with each other. However, both of them tried to transfor...

The author presents a broad panorama of the history and development of domestic foreign intelligence. The book contains portraits of all the leaders of the S...

When the Bolsheviks took power and V.I. Lenin headed Soviet Russia, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya became one of the leaders of the powerful ideological s...

Adolf Hitler demanded that every German provide evidence of the purity of his origin. He himself did not report anything about his ancestors. There were dark...

The book contains portraits of the leaders of Soviet and Russian political intelligence, starting with the first head of the Foreign Department of the Cheka ...

The hero of this book, Alexander Nikolaevich Shelepin, chairman of the KGB, member of the Politburo and secretary of the Central Committee, head of the Commi...

Adolf Hitler is notorious as a tyrant and dictator who drowned almost the entire world in blood, but even very little is said about him as a person. Why did ...

Markus Wolf (1923–2006) could have become a successful aircraft designer, as he wanted in his youth. Or a popular writer, which he almost succeeded in when h...

A terrorist squad in Damascus entered the building of the headquarters of the Syrian Air Force at the very moment when the Russian Minister of Defense was th...

What pushes people onto the path of betrayal? Some are driven by love, some are concerned about the fate of the world and the safety of the planet, some are ...