the son served in the gdr in 968 and took part in the suppression of the prague spring, the very thei-soviet revolution in czechoslovakia. my son says that when i entered the university, it turned out to be a bad thing for me, that is, participation in the suppression of the prague spring. everyone who missed the mark took penalties, saying that your hands are bleeding on your elbows, you don’t belong here, and so on. it was pointless to say that i only shot at air. they didn't believe it. moreover, my father remembered this to me until the end of my life, calling me an occupier. i tried to explain what was happening to me. for the 18 years that i carried out the order, everything was to no avail. viktor petrovich ostafiev was born in may and he was glorified in the recent centenary of his birth as a russian people's righteous man, as a lover of truth, as a fighter. meanwhile, the last novel by viktor ostafiev, the damned murdered, written in the nineties, is not just a series of powerful pictures of the battles of the patriotic war and... the joyful life of a soldier, it is also mon

[tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring.n attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, he's sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him. [baroness meta ramsay] there are some things that i really cannot go into. i know you'll understand the nature of what we're talking about. when oleg arrived in london in 1982, it was invaluable to have the views of an insider in the russian embassy in london who knew the meaning of everything that was happening. [narrator] only eight people in the country know about this highly sensitive operation at a highly sensitive time. [baroness meta] it would be very, very few people anywhere who knew about oleg. you don't want anybody at any stage to betray the source, because accidents happen. usually, things are very, very carefully contained. only people who need to know. that's a great principle, "need to know." you hav

[tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring. an attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, he's sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him. [baroness meta ramsay] there are some things that i really cannot go into. i know you'll understand the nature of what we're talking about. when oleg arrived in london in 1982, it was invaluable to have the views of an insider in the russian embassy in london who knew the meaning of everything that was happening. [narrator] only eight people in the country know about this highly sensitive operation at a highly sensitive time. [baroness meta] it would be very, very few people anywhere who knew about oleg. you don't want anybody at any stage to betray the source, because accidents happen. usually, things are very, very carefully contained. only people who need to know. that's a great principle, "need to know." you h

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