Stashinsky biography

To buy betrayals, intrigues, dramatic confrontations and unexpected turns of the plot in this real story would be enough for several espionage novels. Sergei Padoy graduated from Dnepropetrovsk State University with a degree in History and Social Sciences, then defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences at the University of Friendship of Peoples, and in the year the dissertation for the scientific degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences at the Shevchenko Kiev State University.

Soon after, he moved to Canada. Currently, the bad is one of the world's largest history experts, a professor of Ukrainian history of Harvard University, the author of the bestsellers of the Gates of Europe. The History of Ukraine and the Last Empire. The fall of the Soviet Union, for which the Gelberus award was award for the best English -language book on the history of international relations and the Pushkinsky House prize.

During the interrogation, he announced that his name was Bogdan Stashinsky, he is an agent of the KGB, who committed two high -profile murders in Munich, eliminating the leaders of the Ukrainian emigration of Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera. This statement made the effect of an exploding bomb, forced the Soviet Union to change the tactics of a secret war, put an end to conversations about the KGB chairman Alexander Shelepin as a future secretary general, and even influenced the processes of criminals of the Third Reich.

For liquidation, Stashinsky used the latest secret development - a gun that sprayed the victim with a liquid poison in the face, leaving no traces. In the last novel of Fleming about James Bond, “A Man with a Golden Pistol,” an agent of "" who washed his brains, tries to kill the boss from such weapons. As for the State Security Committee itself, for forty years he denied his role in the murders of Ukrainian nationalists, giving rise to the most unthinkable conspiracy theories: from Stashinsky’s insanity to the existence of a large -scale and cunningly thought -out plan, in which the agent participated as a voluntary sacrifice.

Who was this man, what were his goals, ideals, thoughts. Why, becoming a hero in his homeland, he suddenly decided to voluntarily surrender to his enemy "a man who shot poison" is not just an autobiography of an employee of the KGB. The bad attention pays great attention to the political situation of that time, the struggle of the world intelligence for the spheres of influence, the characters and characteristics of the psychology of the main actors, from little -known special services to omnipotent representatives of the authorities.

Being one of the largest modern experts on the history of Ukraine, the author also describes a portrait of the most famous victim of Stashinsky, Stepan Bandera, dwelling in detail at his political steps, influence on the OUN, the organization of Ukrainian nationalists, and participation in the activities of the UPA, the Ukrainian rebel army.

Passing along the routes of the killer, asking the involved in this story, sitting in the archives, many documents in which were declassified recently, the bad concludes that during his many hours of interrogations, Stashinsky reported mainly the truth. But not all. Other materials.