Ivan Serov: Stalin’s and Khrushchev’s shadow — the most dangerous man in the USSR скачать в хорошем качестве

Ivan Serov: Stalin’s and Khrushchev’s shadow — the most dangerous man in the USSR

There are figures whose names rarely appear in public chronicles, but whose hands hold the levers of power. Ivan Alexandrovich Serov was the first chairman of the KGB, a hero of Soviet special operations, and a participant in key events under Stalin and Khrushchev. His biography attracts the attention not only of historians, but also of those interested in the power side of authority. ‘The shadow of Stalin and Khrushchev’ is a journalistic phrase, but the facts of his life confirm that he was a man capable of influencing the fate of entire peoples and countries. What made a peasant boy from the Vologda countryside one of the most formidable figures in the Soviet empire, a man whose signature decided the fate of entire peoples? The origins of this harshness, as is often the case, are hidden in the dust of country roads and the cold of state schools.