Leaders and intelligence. From Lenin to Putin: Igor Damaskin

Our disassembled and multipolar world cannot do without the help of special services, without the organs of internal and foreign intelligence: by common thought, a person of any political views recognizes this simple truth. But the image of a scout in literature and art, in household perception can be very different. A folk hero, a knight without fear and reproach, always ready to sacrifice his life for his homeland, sometimes seems mysterious and dangerous for everyone around him, an insidious “sex”. And therefore, such a different, sometimes painful resonance in the mass consciousness causes contact with the special services of the leaders of any state (by the way, inevitable and necessary: ​​not knowing the “underwater currents” around himself, such a ruler, whether he is king or emperor, president or king, will simply destroy the country and himself). This is very sharply noticeable in Russia (and in countries separated from the USSR), due to the famous tragic ups and downs of its history in the twentieth century. Now, when the property of publicity is becoming a secret …

Author
Damaskin Igor Anatolyevich
Editor
Zalesskaya M.K.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
Series
Great secrets of history
Genre
The history of the USSR