Biography of Vladimir Rezun

He graduated from the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School. He was an officer of the reconnaissance department of the headquarters of the military district, worked for four years in the GRU GRU GRU. He fled to the UK in the year. Then he was sentenced for treason to his homeland to the death penalty. The author of several books about the Soviet Army and military intelligence.

Speakes under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov. In his military-historical books, he proposed an alternative concept of the role of the USSR in the Second World War. The proposed concept and methods of its justification caused numerous discussions and criticism in historical and public circles. The first and most famous book on this topic is the icebreaker. Suvorov also wrote a number of art books about the Soviet Army, military intelligence and pre -war history of the USSR.

According to New Izvestia, the circulations of some books of Suvorov exceed a million copies was born in the village of Barabash of the Primorsky Territory in the family of a soldier. Father - Ukrainian, mother - Russian. The Primorsky Territory went to the first grade in the village of Slavyanka. Then he studied in the village of Barabash. In the year, having graduated from four classes, at the age of 11, Rezun entered the Voronezh Suvorov Military School with a seven -year period of study.

In the year, the school was also disbanded by the remaining three companies fifth, sixth and seventh, where Rezun and Rezun were transferred to the Kalinin Suvorov Military School. In the year, Rezun graduated from the Kalinin Suvorov Military School and was accepted without exams for the second year of the Kyiv Higher Combined Arms Team School named after M. at the age of 19 was adopted as members of the CPSU.

He graduated from the school with honors.

He participated in the operation to enter troops into the territory of Czechoslovakia. Upon returning to the year, he received the first appointment - to the position of commander of a tank platoon in the Mr. The Guards Academic Engineering Budapest Regiment of the Guards Academic Motor Rifle Division in the city of Chernivtsi of the Carpathian Military District. In the years, he continued to serve in the Carpathian military district for positions associated with intelligence.

In years, he was an officer of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Volga Military District in the city of years studied at the Military Diplomatic Academy. In different sources, two versions of his last military rank appear. So, according to the Aquarium autobiographical book, he received the title of major while working in the residency. On the other hand, his immediate superior captain of the 1st rank Valery Kalinin published an article in the year under the heading “Who are you, Captain Rezun?

The title "Captain" is also called in a number of other publications of the Russian press. In the party organization, among comrades stood out with its excessive activity in supporting any initiative decisions, for which Pavlik Morozov received the nickname, which was very proud of. The official relationship was quite favorable: shortly before the disappearance, he was increased in a diplomatic rank from the attache to the 3rd secretary with an appropriate increase in the salary, in order to exclude the term of stay was extended for another year.

At the end of the business trip, Rezun knew that its use was planned in the central apparatus of the GRU. Kalinin, captain of the 1st rank of reserve, former head of Soviet foreign intelligence, resident in Bern, Switzerland, direct chief of Suvorov. According to Rezun himself, he made contact with British intelligence due to the fact that they wanted to make him a “scapegoat” for a major failure in the work of the Geneva residency.

According to other versions, he was recruited by British intelligence, or even stolen. Since the year, Rezun has been engaged in writing under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov, writing the first three books in English. The author explains the choice of pseudonym by the fact that his publisher recommended him to use 1 Russian surname, 2 of three syllables, 3 causing a small “military” association among the Western reader.

According to Rezun, he teaches tactics and military history in one of the British military academies; Lives in Bristol. He approved in his books an interview that he was sentenced in absentia to the USSR to the death penalty. According to N. Petukhov, the deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, this statement has no reason: Rezun was not only not sentenced, his case was not even transferred to the court.

He mentioned that in the year the scout Oleg Gordievsky was condemned in absentia for treason, but, according to him, "there were no more such sentences in the latest history of the military collegium." There are evidence of the opposite nature. From an interview with the chief of the GRU, Colonel General F. Ladygin, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda was a court. ” In March, he signed the appeal of the Russian opposition “Putin must leave”.

He participated in the First World War. According to Rezun, his grandfather "... was a Makhnovist, all his life hid it, the Soviet government hated a very, very fiercely." He died on February 5. According to the book "Aquarium", Grandfather Rezun lived 93 years. Father-Bogdan Vasilievich, G. served in the Mr. Mortar Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment of the 5th Army of the Far Eastern Military District.

Fired from the army in the year with the rank of major. He died in December.Mother - Rezun Gorevalova Vera Spiridonovna, Brother - Alexander, G. for 27 years served in the rocket forces in the Transcaucasian Military District. He quit in the reserve of the year with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Wife-Tatyana Stepanovna Korzh, G. married two children, daughter-Oksana, G. During his studies at the Military Diplomatic Academy, he lived with his family at the address: Moscow, Azov ul.

In post -Soviet Russia, Suvorov’s books quickly gained popularity, which was facilitated by their journalistic style, as well as the unusual concept of the concept, which was originally based on official sources of information, links to which are in abundance in the books of the journalistic “icebreaker”, “The Last Republic” and others. According to Alexei Isaev, in his books, who refuted by Viktor Suvorov, who was written by Viktor Suvorov, the popularity of the books of V.

Suvorov is also explained by the fact that after perestroika time the population of Russia was tired of chronically universal publications about Russia and the USSR, and Suvorov, on the contrary, wrote about the opposite, largely characterizing the USSR: a strong army; The best in the world is progressive and advanced - military equipment; The beautiful and skilled leadership of Stalin; The weakness of the Western and other countries of both Germany with Japan, and the USA, Britain, France;.

In addition, the state support of the publication of his books was reported. In particular, the writer V. Bogomolov, the author of the novel “In August, wrote:“ At the beginning of the year, I became aware that the publication of the books of the Rector V. in Russia in works of art, the first of which were the “Aquarium” and “Liberator”, the author talks about the army and military intelligence of the Soviet Union in an autobiographical manner.

In the year, Rezun participated in the preparation of the Latvian documentary film "Soviet History". The film received the prize of the Boston Film Festival “Mass Impact Award”, which is awarded to films that reveal global problems affecting the history of all of mankind. Dyukov noting a number of frauds, as the fact that “The announcement of the film“ Soviet History ”begins with the statement:“ The Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany to kindle the Holocaust.

The film demonstrates recently opened archival documents proving this ”, although in reality we are talking about a fake known as“ General Agreement on Cooperation between the NKVD and the Gestapo ”, supposedly dated November 11, which says the“ Main Safety Management of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany ”, which never existed. A Heydrich is called the SS Reichsführer instead of Himmler.

The allegedly signing “Agreement” Müller is presented with the rank of brigadenfuhrer, although he received it only in the year. In addition, on November 11, he was in Berlin, where he summed up the results of the famous "crystal night", and not in Moscow. Dyukov believes that this "fake was borrowed by the director from the book" Generalissimo "of the former Soviet military intelligence officer Vladimir Karpov." According to V.

Suvorov, the main reason for the Great Patriotic War was the policy of Stalin, aimed at the seizure of European states, the spread of the "proletarian revolution" and the establishment of a socialist order throughout Europe. Viktor Suvorov criticized the interpretation of the initial stage of the Great Patriotic War established in the Soviet and foreign historical science.

In his opinion, in the spring and summer of the year, the Red Army was preparing for a blow to Germany, which was supposed to be inflicted in July estimated on July 6. Suvorov claims that this Soviet plan was called the Operation “Thunderstorm”. V. Suvorov explains the crushing defeats at the first stage by the Red Army, which was caught at the last moment before the attack, namely, that she was preparing for the offensive war and was not ready for the defensive war.

Most academic historians primarily reject the methods of Suvorov, the most authoritative Western historians and his concept is a characteristic of the relationship of members of the professional community to the work of Suvorov reaches the epithet “with contempt”. Critics of Suvorov accuse him of falsifications and pseudoscience. RAC, Albert WIX, Russia and other countries. Yuri Felshtinsky believes that Suvorov has previously discovered an unknown layer of history.

Ubershar believes that the work of German historians and Suvorov, where it is denied that Germany attacked unexpectedly, does not matter much. Jan Kershaw and Moshe Levin believe that the academic support of Suvorov comes from marginal German historians. David Gennz characterizes Suvorov supporting as a small group of German and Russian historians. According to the historian Irina Pavlova, expressed in the year regarding the book of V.

Suvorov, “The Icebreaker”, “There are many errors in his book. But in general, his concept seems to me correct. ” In addition to individual historians, some writers and journalists such as Mikhail Weller, Julia Latynina support the historical concept.Honorary Academician The International Academy of Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts Honorary Member of the International Union of Writers and Journalists of the work according to a number of sources, Suvorov’s books are translated into more than twenty languages ​​of the world.

In the 10th years, books appeared on sale, the authorship of which was attributed to V. Suvorov, but in reality he was not their author, for example, a book about Yu. Andropov, “New Master”, existing in paper form. This list contains only books, authorship V.