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In order for the label “secret” to actually appear, the state needs good reasons. Most of these cases are state secrets.
But many personal archives of famous people become secret at the request of the heirs, who do not regret that their ancestors look in an unflattering light.
The most secret documents became in 1938
A radical change in the classification of information occurred in 1918, when the Main Directorate of Archives was organized under the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. The brochure “Keep the archives” published by Bonch-Bruevich was distributed through the “Windows of ROSTA” to all state institutions, where, in particular, there was a provision on the secrecy of certain information.
And in 1938, the management of all archival affairs was transferred to the NKVD of the USSR, which classified a huge amount of information, numbering tens of thousands of files, as classified. Since 1946, this department has received the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, since 1995 - the FSB.
Since 2016, all archives have been reassigned directly to the President of Russia.
Questions for the royal family
The so-called famous Novoromanovsky archive of the royal family has not been completely declassified, most of which was initially classified by the Bolshevik leadership, and after the 90s, part archival documents was given wide publicity. It is noteworthy that the work of the archive itself was strictly confidential. And one could only guess about his activities from indirect documents of employees: certificates, passes, payroll records, personal files of employees - that's what was left of the work of the secret Soviet archive.
But the correspondence between Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna has not been fully disclosed. Palace materials relating to the relationship between the court and the ministries and departments of the First World War are also not available.
KGB Archives
Most of the KGB archives are classified on the grounds that the operational-search activities of many agents can still cause damage to counterintelligence work, reveal the methodology of its work. Some of the successful cases in the field of terrorism, espionage, smuggling are also mothballed.
This also applies to cases related to intelligence and operational work in the GULAG camps.
Stalin's affairs
From the archive of the President of the Russian Federation to the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, 1,700 files were transferred, formed in the 11th inventory of the Stalin Fund, of which about 200 files were classified as secret.
Of considerable interest are the cases of Yezhov, Beria, but they were published only in parts, and complete information on the cases of "executed enemies of the people" are still not available.
A confirmation that many more documents are to be declassified is the fact that in 2015, at four meetings of the Interdepartmental Expert Commission on declassifying documents under the Governor of St.
Party archives - also in the "secret"
Of considerable interest to researchers are the resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars or the resolutions of the Council of Ministers, the decisions of the Politburo.
But most of the party archives are classified.
New archives and new secrets
The main task of the archive of the President formed in 1991 Russian Federation was a combination of documents from the former archive of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, and then the subsequent period of the reign of Boris Yeltsin.
The presidential archive has about 15 million different documents, but only a third of them, five million, are in the public domain today.
Secret personal archives of Vladi, Vysotsky, Solzhenitsyn
The personal funds of the Soviet leader Nikolai Ryzhkov, Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady are closed to the general public.
Do not think that the documents appear classified "secret" only with the help of government officials. For example, personal fund Alexandra Solzhenitsyn, kept in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, is kept secret because the heir, the writer's wife Natalya Dmitrievna, decides on her own whether or not to make the documents public. She justified her decision by the fact that Solzhenitsyn's poems are often found in documents, which are not particularly good, and she would not want others to know about it.
In order to make public the materials of the investigation file, according to which Solzhenitsyn ended up in the Gulag, it was necessary to obtain the consent of two archives - the Ministry of Defense and the Lubyanka.
Plan for "secrets"
The head of the Russian Archive, Andrei Artizov, said in one of his interviews: “We are declassifying documents in accordance with our national interests. There is a declassification plan. To make a decision on declassification, three to four experts with knowledge are needed foreign languages, historical context, legislation on state secrets”.
Special commission on declassification
In order to declassify the materials in each archive, a special commission was created. Usually - from three people who decided on what basis to betray or not to make this or that document widely publicized.
Secret materials are of undoubted interest to a wide range of people, but historians warn that working with archives is a ton business and requires certain knowledge. This is especially true of secret archival materials. Not many people have access to them - thousands of documents from the times of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union are classified for various good reasons.
In the 1990s, a number of documents from the Soviet era, previously classified as "top secret", began to be made public, but, realizing it, the authorities again closed access to them. Apparently, many secrets of the USSR will remain inaccessible.
Labeled "Top Secret"
The secrecy stamp is imposed for two reasons. First and foremost, most of the documents stored in the archives are state secrets. The second reason is related to materials relating to famous personalities of the past, whose heirs do not want the details of their lives to be publicized.
In 1918, something happened that today does not allow us to fully familiarize ourselves with the documents of the Soviet past. That year, Lenin received a message in which he was informed how the Red Army soldiers indiscriminately destroyed the manuscripts and correspondence of famous writers. The leader immediately called the publicist Bonch-Bruevich with a request to write a pamphlet entitled "Keep the archives." The brochure, which has sold 50,000 copies, has borne fruit.
However, very soon, Soviet officials realized that it was important not only to preserve the archives, but also to restrict access to them by ordinary citizens due to the confidentiality of information contained in some sources.
In 1938, the management of all archival affairs was transferred to the NKVD of the USSR, which classified a huge amount of information, numbering tens of thousands of files. Since 1946, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR received the powers of this department, and since 1995 - the FSB of Russia. Since 2016, all archives have been reassigned directly to the President of Russia.
Stalin's affairs
Despite the fact that many documents from the Stalin era have long been declassified, some of them are still hidden away from prying eyes in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History. In particular, about 200 cases from the Stalin fund are classified as secret. Of considerable interest to researchers are the cases of Yezhov and Beria, which were published only in parts, and there is still no complete information on the cases of executioners who became enemies of the people.
Today, many Russians are requesting investigation files of illegally repressed citizens kept in the archives of the FSB and in the GARF. Access to the investigation files of the repressed is permitted by law for relatives, as well as for other interested persons. True, the latter can receive the required documents only after the expiration of the 75-year period from the date of the verdict. Often visitors to the archives receive defective copies, in particular, with the names of NKVD officers blacked out.
Some researchers are sure that the cases of the NKVD will never be declassified in full. In March 2014, the interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets extended the secrecy period for documents of the Cheka-KGB for 1917-1991 for the next 30 years. This decision also affected a large array of documents relating to the Great Terror of 1937-1938, which were extremely in demand by historians and relatives of the victims of repression.
WWII Archives
Many secrets today still hide the period of the Great Patriotic War. For example, there is still no consolidated work on the operations of the Red Army during the war years with the application of maps in the public domain. Since the release in 1998 of the collection of archival materials "1941", new authentic documents have been published in a very dosed manner. Moreover, researchers do not even have the right to look at the names of cases in the inventories of secret storage.
Historian Igor Ievlev remarks on this: “Apparently, the researchers have already approached the barrier, beyond which, if it is overcome, completely uncomfortable and, probably, even shameful and shameful pages of the real history of the country can be opened.”
Also, modern historians cannot get acquainted with the original documents of accounting for the number of those called up and mobilized in wartime and are still forced to rely on the data of the saved draft books - a secondary source. Unfortunately, the draft cards of recruits, the registration cards of the reserve and enlisted personnel of the Red Army, were almost all destroyed.
Not so long ago, on the forum of one of the sites dedicated to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, one of the readers shared some interesting information. According to him, in one of the conversations, a former employee of the military registration and enlistment office told him a long story about the total destruction in 1953 after Stalin's death of all records and service records and other primary documents for enlisted personnel from pre-war times until the end of the war.
What is the reason for the desire of the leadership of the USSR to hide data relating to mobilization on the eve and during the Second World War? Researchers are sure: in order to hide the real losses of the USSR in the first months of the war.
KGB Archives
The KGB in the USSR, like the CIA in the United States, is an intelligence service that, during its existence, has carried out a huge number of covert operations around the world. Any state security officer will attest that KGB business papers are rarely declassified in their original form. They are preliminarily “cleaned out”, removing information that the department does not want to make public for one reason or another.
Almost all the secrets of the Soviet special services known today were published in London in 1996 thanks to Vasily Mitrokhin, a former employee of the archival department of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR.
The published materials contain information that could hardly be published in Russia in the foreseeable future. In particular, it was exposed to the public how, between 1959 and 1972, the KGB collected information about American power plants, dams, oil pipelines and other infrastructure in preparation for an operation that could lead to a disruption in the power supply to all of New York.
It contains information detailing the KGB's plans to covertly acquire three American banks in Northern California as part of a covert operation designed to obtain intelligence about high-tech companies in the region. The banks were not chosen by chance, since all of them had previously provided loans to corporations of interest to the KGB. The figurehead in whose name the banks were bought was supposed to be a Singaporean businessman, but the American intelligence services managed to figure out the plans of the KGB.
Even these two facts are enough to understand why the KGB carefully guards its secrets.
Completely personal
Many personal funds related to the life of famous people are also closed to the general public. A lot of things that should not be known are hidden in Stalin's personal archive. But at least the names of these materials are known. There are, in particular, Stalin's outgoing cipher telegrams for the period of the 1930s, the correspondence of the Secretary General with the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense and the USSR Ministry of the Armed Forces for the 1920-1950s, letters from citizens and foreigners addressed to Stalin, documents about Molotov's trip to London and Washington in 1942
In addition, we will probably never know the details of the personal lives of Marina Vladi and Vladimir Vysotsky. Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov will not reveal state secrets to us, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn will not tell us about his innermost thoughts. Personal archives of public figures are most often closed from open access their heirs.
For example, the personal fund of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, is in closed access, because the heir - the wife of the writer Natalya Dmitrievna - decides for herself whether to make documents public or not. She justified her decision by the fact that Solzhenitsyn's poems are often found in documents, which are not particularly good, and she would not want others to know about it.
Difficulties of declassification
In 1991, the archive of the President of the Russian Federation was formed, which combined documents from the former archive of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, and later the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. During the first 10 years of the foundation's existence, many materials were declassified, but in the early 2000s this process was suspended, and the documents that had already been made public were classified again.
Andrey Artizov, head of the Russian Archive, said in one of his interviews: “We are declassifying documents in accordance with our national interests. There is a declassification plan. To make a decision on declassification, three or four experts with knowledge of foreign languages, historical context, state secrets legislation are needed.”
What are the leaders of the country afraid of declassifying documents, many of which have already crossed the half-century mark? Researchers call whole line reasons: Among them, for example, a very difficult issue of cooperation between the USSR and Nazi Germany on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, reflected in numerous documents.
Among other reasons are called: the real scale of the repressions of the Stalinist authorities against their people; destabilization of the world situation by the USSR; facts that destroy the myth of the economic assistance of the USSR to other states; squandering public funds bribing governments of third world countries in order to obtain support from the UN.
In fact, all prohibited materials can be summarized in two main categories: documents that expose the Soviet regime in an extremely negative light, and documents that in any way relate to the ancestors of modern politicians, which I would like to keep silent about. This is quite understandable, since both of them can seriously undermine the reputation of modern Russia - the successor of the USSR - in the eyes of the whole world.
The database of declassified cases and documents of the federal state archives was prepared on the initiative of the Federal Archival Agency (Rosarchiv) in order to coordinate the work on declassifying archival documents, accumulating an information array, statistical accounting, informing users about the results of the work of federal archives on declassifying archival documents.
Based on the results of declassification in 1998-2010. The Rosarchive prepared and published the Bulletins of Declassified Documents of the Federal State Archives (12 issues, M., 1998-2000, 2002-2011), which were printed in a limited edition. The bulletins contained reviews of declassified cases or lists of files from federal archives, the Archive of the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. In connection with the interest of the archives and the public, all issues of the bulletins were posted on the portal "Archives of Russia" "Declassification".
Unfortunately, the information posted in the bulletins did not allow to fully coordinate the work on the declassification of archival files and documents stored in the federal state archives, state and municipal archives of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Given this circumstance, in 2012 it was decided to create a database and place it on the Internet.
The database of declassified cases and documents of federal archives was posted on the branch portal "Archives of Russia" in December 2013 and is available to a wide range of users.
The database includes titles of declassified cases and documents with search data from the funds of 8 federal archives and one branch where there are cases and documents in secret storage:
- State Archive of the Russian Federation (GA RF)
- Russian State Archive of Economics (RGAE)
- Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI)
- Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI)
- Russian State Military Archive (RGVA)
- Russian State Archive of the Navy (RGAVMF)
- Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI)
- Russian State Archive for Scientific and Technical Documentation (RGANTD)
- branch of the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation in Samara (branch of RGANTD)
The cases and documents were declassified by the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets for the declassification of documents of the CPSU and the Government of the USSR, which, in accordance with Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 2, 2001 No. b) - CPSU, expert commissions of fund-creators (ministries, departments, institutions and organizations).
On the opening day, the database contains titles transferred to open storage in 2010-2012. cases and documents declassified, incl. for previous years. For your information: the process of declassifying cases and documents is considered completed after changes are made to the records of the archive, the appropriate processing of declassified cases and documents and their transfer to open storage.
In the future, it is planned to quickly replenish the database with lists of declassified cases and documents, as well as install information from the bulletins of declassified documents of the federal state archives.
Project prepared:
project management: A.V. Yurasov(Rosarchive);
project coordination: O.A. Antipova(Rosarchive);
creating a local database: P.G. Lubin;
creation of a multi-user information system, data import: N.V. Glishchinskaya, I.V. Karavaev(RGANTD), BEFORE. Oleinik;
preparation of lists of cases and documents and testing of the database:
L.A. Horny, N.I. Vladimirtsev, S.A. Panarina, S.V. Somonova(GA RF);
I.V. Sazonkina, O.S. Litsareva, Yu.A. Glazova(RGAE);
L.N. Sakharova, E.K. Smirnova, E.E. Klimova, Yu.V. Yushina, O.O. Filatov(RGVA);
E.G. Azarova, O.A. Liseenko, N.N. Pyatkina(RGAVMF);
A.O. Voitov(RGALI);
HER. Kirillova, I.N. Kiselev, A.V. Lukashin, N.V. Muravyov(RGASPI);
R.G. Utkina, M.N. Kondratieva, L.S. Karpunina, S.N. Sitkova, N.Kh. Abdullina, O.V. Ermakova, V.S. Ipatov, T.A. Mikhailova, S.N. Rodionova, A.V. Dmitrienko, I.A. Lapkin(RGANI);
L.V. Uspenskaya, A.V. Kurakin, I.L. Makarevich(RGANTD);
N.I. Telegina, A.I. Nasyrova, S.V. Dorohova, E.V. Zykova, O.I. Stryapkina, O.Yu. Salgova, L.Yu. Pokrovskaya, M.Yu. Churkina, L.E. Velmina(branch of RGANTD).
The Federal Archival Agency expresses its gratitude to the organizers and participants of the project.
Users can send their comments, suggestions and comments on the database to technical support portal "Archives of Russia" to the address:
On March 13, 1954, the Chekists were removed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, a new department was formed: the State Security Committee of the CCCP - the KGB. The new structure was in charge of intelligence, operational-investigative activities and the protection of the state border. In addition, the task of the KGB was to provide the Central Committee of the CPSU with information affecting state security. The concept is broad, to be sure: it includes both the personal life of dissidents and the study of unidentified flying objects.
Separating truth from fiction, recognizing misinformation intended for "controlled leakage" is now almost unrealistic. So, to believe or not to believe in the truth of the declassified secrets and mysteries of the KGB archives is everyone's personal right.
The current Chekists, who worked in the structure during its heyday, some with a smile, some with irritation dismiss: no secret developments were carried out, nothing paranormal was studied. But, like any other closed organization that has an influence on the fate of people, the KGB could not avoid mystification. The activities of the committee are overgrown with rumors and legends, and even partial declassification of the archives cannot dispel them. Moreover, the archives of the former KGB underwent a serious purge in the mid-1950s. In addition, the wave of declassification that began in 1991-1992 quickly subsided, and now the release of data is going on at an almost imperceptible pace.
Hitler: died or escaped?
The controversy has not subsided since May 1945. Did he commit suicide or was the body of a doppelgänger found in the bunker? What happened to the Fuhrer's remains?
In February 1962, trophy documents of the Second World War were transferred to the TsGAOR of the USSR (the modern State Archive of the Russian Federation). And along with them - fragments of the skull and the armrest of the sofa with traces of blood.
As Vasily Khristoforov, head of the registration and archival funds department of the FSB, told Interfax, the remains were found during an investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the former Reich President of Germany in 1946. The forensic examination identified the partially charred remains found as fragments of the parietal bones and the occipital bone of an adult. The act dated May 8, 1945 states: the discovered pieces of the skull, "probably fell off the corpse, seized from the pit on May 5, 1945."
"Documentary materials with the results of the re-investigation were combined into a case with the symbolic name "Mif". The materials of the named case, as well as the materials of the investigation into the circumstances of the Fuhrer's death in 1945, stored in the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia, were declassified in the 90s of the last century and became available to the general public," the source said.
What was left of the top of the Nazi elite and did not end up in the KGB archives did not immediately find rest: the bones were repeatedly reburied, and on March 13, 1970, Andropov ordered the remains of Hitler, Brown and the Goebbels to be removed and destroyed. This is how the plan for the secret event "Archive" was born, carried out by the operational group of the Special Department of the KGB of the 3rd Army of the GSVG. Two acts were drawn up. The latter reads: "The destruction of the remains was carried out by burning them on a fire in a wasteland near the city of Schönebeck, 11 kilometers from Magdeburg. The remains burned out, crushed into ashes together with coal, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River."
It is difficult to say what Andropov was guided by when giving such an order. Most likely, he feared - and not without reason - that even after a while the fascist regime would find followers, and the burial place of the ideologist of the dictatorship would become a place of pilgrimage.
By the way, in 2002, the Americans announced that they had X-rays that were kept by a dentist, SS Oberführer Hugo Blaschke. A reconciliation with the fragments available in the archives of the Russian Federation once again confirmed the authenticity of parts of Hitler's jaw.
But despite the seemingly indisputable evidence, the version that the Fuhrer managed to leave Germany, occupied by Soviet troops, does not leave modern researchers alone. Looking for it, as a rule, in Patagonia. Indeed, post-World War II Argentina harbored many Nazis who tried to elude justice. There were even witnesses that Hitler, along with other fugitives, appeared here in 1947. It is hard to believe: even the official radio of Nazi Germany on that memorable day announced the death of the Fuhrer in an unequal struggle against Bolshevism.
Marshal Georgy Zhukov was the first to question Hitler's suicide. A month after the victory, he said: "The situation is very mysterious. We did not find the identified corpse of Hitler. I cannot say anything affirmatively about the fate of Hitler. At the very last minute, he could fly away from Berlin, since the runways made it possible." It was June 10th. And the body was found on May 5, the autopsy report is dated May 8. ... Why did the question of the authenticity of the Fuhrer's body arise only a month later?
The official version of Soviet historians is as follows: on April 30, 1945, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide. At the same time, according to eyewitnesses, the Fuhrer shot himself. By the way, during the autopsy, glass was found in the oral cavity, which speaks in favor of the version with poison.
Unidentified flying objects
Anton Pervushin, in his author's investigation, cites one demonstrative story that characterizes the attitude of the KGB to the phenomenon. The writer and assistant to the committee chairman Igor Sinitsyn, who worked for Yuri Andropov from 1973 to 1979, liked to tell this story in his time.
“Somehow, while looking through the foreign press, I came across a series of articles about unidentified flying objects - UFOs ... I dictated a summary of them to the stenographer in Russian and carried them to the chairman along with the magazines .... He quickly flipped through the materials. After thinking a little, he suddenly took out some kind of thin folder from the drawer of his desk. The folder contained a report from one of the officers of the 3rd directorate, that is, military counterintelligence," Sinitsyn recalled.
The information given to Andropov could very well become the plot of a science fiction film: an officer, while on a night fishing trip with his friends, watched one of the stars approach the Earth and take the form of an aircraft. The navigator estimated the size and location of the object by eye: diameter - about 50 meters, height - about five hundred meters above sea level.
“He saw two bright beams come out of the center of the UFO. One of the beams stood vertically to the surface of the water and rested on it. The other beam, like a searchlight, searched the space of waters around the boat. Suddenly it stopped, illuminating the boat. seconds, the beam went out. Together with it, the second, vertical beam went out," Sinitsyn quoted the report of counterintelligence officer.
According to his own testimony, these materials later came to Kirilenko and, over time, seemed to be lost in the archives. This is roughly what skeptics reduce the probable interest of the KGB to the UFO problem to: pretend that it is interesting, but in fact bury the materials in the archives as potentially insignificant.
In November 1969, almost 60 years after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite (which, according to some researchers, was not a fragment of a celestial body, but a crashed spaceship), there was a message about another fall of an unidentified object on the territory of the Soviet Union. Not far from the village of Berezovsky in the Sverdlovsk region, several luminous balls were seen in the sky, one of which began to lose altitude, fell, then a strong explosion followed. In the late 1990s, a number of media outlets came across a film that allegedly depicted the work of investigators and scientists at the site of the alleged UFO crash in the Urals. The work was supervised by "a man who looked like a KGB officer."
“Our family lived in Sverdlovsk at that time, and my relatives even worked in the regional party committee. However, even there almost no one knew the whole truth about the incident. In Berezovsky, where our friends lived, everyone accepted the legend of the exploded granary ; those who saw the UFO preferred not to spread. The disk was taken out, presumably, in the dark, in order to avoid unnecessary witnesses, "contemporaries of the events recalled.
It is noteworthy that even the ufologists themselves, people who were initially inclined to believe in stories about UFOs, criticized these videos: the uniform of Russian soldiers, their manner of holding weapons, cars flashing in the frame - all this did not inspire confidence even among susceptible people. True, the denial of one particular video does not mean that adherents of the belief in UFOs give up their beliefs.
Vladimir Azhazha, an ufologist and an acoustic engineer by education, said this: “Does the state hide any information about UFOs from the public, it must be assumed that yes. On what basis? On the basis of a list of information constituting state and military secrets. Indeed, in In 1993, the State Security Committee of the Russian Federation, at the written request of the then president of the UFO Association, pilot-cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, handed over to the UFO center headed by me about 1,300 documents related to UFOs. These were reports from official bodies, commanders of military units, and messages from private individuals."
Occult interests
In the 1920s and 30s, a prominent figure in the Cheka/OGPU/NKVD (the forerunner of the KGB) Gleb Bokiy, the one who created laboratories for the development of drugs to influence the minds of those arrested, became interested in studying extrasensory perception and even searched for the legendary Shambhala.
After his execution in 1937, the folders with the results of the experiments supposedly ended up in the secret archives of the KGB. After Stalin's death, part of the documents was irretrievably lost, the rest settled in the cellars of the committee. Under Khrushchev, the work continued: America was worried about rumors periodically reaching from across the ocean about the invention of biogenerators, mechanisms that control thinking.
Separately, it is worth mentioning another object of close attention of the Soviet security forces - the famous mentalist Wolf Messing. Despite the fact that he himself, and later his biographers, willingly shared intriguing stories about the outstanding abilities of the hypnotist, the KGB archives did not retain any documentary evidence of the "miracles" performed by Messing. In particular, neither Soviet nor German documents contain information that Messing fled Germany after he predicted the fall of fascism, and Hitler put a reward on his head. It is also impossible to either confirm or deny the data that Messing personally met with Stalin and he tested his outstanding abilities, forcing him to perform certain tasks.
On the other hand, about Ninel Kulagina, who in 1968 attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies with her extraordinary abilities, the data has been preserved. The abilities of this woman (or their lack?) are still controversial: among fans of the supernatural, she is revered as a pioneer, and among the learned fraternity, her achievements cause at least an ironic smile. Meanwhile, the video chronicle of those years recorded how Kulagina, without the help of her hand or any devices, rotates the compass needle, moves small objects, such as a matchbox. The woman complained during the experiments of back pain, and her pulse was 180 beats per minute. Its secret was, allegedly, that the energy field of the hands, due to the super-concentration of the test subject, could move objects that fell into the zone of its influence.
It is also known that after the end of World War II, as a trophy in Soviet Union hit, made on Hitler's personal order: he served for astrological predictions of a military-political nature. The device was out of order, but Soviet engineers restored it, and it was transferred to the astronomical station near Kislovodsk. Knowledgeable people said that Major General of the FSB Georgy Rogozin (in 1992-1996, the former first deputy head of the presidential security service and who received the nickname "Nostradamus in uniform" for his studies in astrology and telekinesis) used SS trophy archives related to the occult sciences in his research.
In the 1990s, a number of documents from the Soviet era, previously classified as "top secret", began to be made public, but, realizing it, the authorities again closed access to them. Apparently, many secrets of the USSR will remain inaccessible.
Labeled "Top Secret"
The secrecy stamp is imposed for two reasons. First and foremost, most of the documents stored in the archives are state secrets. The second reason is related to materials relating to famous personalities of the past, whose heirs do not want the details of their lives to be publicized. In 1918, something happened that today does not allow us to fully familiarize ourselves with the documents of the Soviet past. That year, Lenin received a message in which he was informed how the Red Army soldiers indiscriminately destroyed the manuscripts and correspondence of famous writers. The leader immediately called the publicist Bonch-Bruevich with a request to write a pamphlet entitled "Keep the archives." The brochure, which has sold 50,000 copies, has borne fruit. However, very soon, Soviet officials realized that it was important not only to preserve the archives, but also to restrict access to them by ordinary citizens due to the confidentiality of information contained in some sources. In 1938, the management of all archival affairs was transferred to the NKVD of the USSR, which classified a huge amount of information, numbering tens of thousands of files. Since 1946, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR received the powers of this department, and since 1995 - the FSB of Russia. Since 2016, all archives have been reassigned directly to the President of Russia.
