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The life of dictators is ambiguous: they are butchers and parents at the same time. On December 14, 1937, Svetlana Allilueva ordered her father Joseph Stalin to take her to the cinema. Stalin agreed and executed the "document." The same day the NKVD extended repressions along the "Latvian line" to Estonians, Lithuanians, Finns, and also Bulgarians. That day 20 801 people were convicted, 17 076 were sentenced to death. Stalin signed that order and then went to the cinema with his daughter. A typical of Tuesday of a dictator.
From the RGASPI collection
Jewish dances and music were banned as a part of the Soviet anti-Semitic state campaign. In the document below, the Ukranian KGB lists restaurants where such a repertoire was performed. For example, it describes "an attempt" of one of the restaurant guests to "imitate" Jewish dances and address the performance of the Jewish march "Meeting of Musicians" as an "Israeli call sign."
From the SBU collection
How did the Soviet Union get a nuclear bomb? In order to catch up with the west, Soviet intelligence launched one of the greatest operations in the Cold War history: Operation Enormoz. It aimed at infiltration into the Manhattan Project and support of Soviet nuclear research with data and information. In 2020, the SVR partially declassified the Enormoz documents and gifted it to the Kurchatov Institute.
From the SVR collection
In 1967 a group of professors and students of the "Russian center" at the Ohio State University traveled to the USSR and was approached by the Ukrainian KGB. See a report in the document below.
From the SBU collection
"Дело Гладиаторов", или metoo по-советски. В 1955 г. выяснилось, что писатель Кривошеин устраивал у себя на даче оргии. Туда завлекали студенток и под разными предлогами совращали. Услугами Кривошеина пользовался ряд советских чиновников, отвечавших за культуру, в т.ч. министр культуры Александров. Название дело получило по полулегендарному эпизоду. Хрущев вызвал замешанных, долго на них кричал, а потом поинтересовался у Александра Еголина (член-корреспондент АН СССР) «Ну Александров-то мужик молодой, я понимаю. А ты-то в твои годы зачем туда полез?» В ответ Еголин попытался оправдаться следующими словами: «Так я ничего, я только гладил…»
From the RGANI collection
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