Leningrad Winter: Soviet Counterintelligence in Besieged Leningrad
13 hrs. 54 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vasily Ardamatsky
Author
Vasily Ardamatsky
Narrator
Oleg Shitov
Narrator
Oleg Shitov
Description
There has been no shortage of writing about the work of Soviet counterintelligence in besieged Leningrad, but V. A. Ardamatsky’s novella shows a completely different side of its activities—fighting the enemy’s agent network and the fifth column recruited by the Abwehr even before the war. The events described in the book are familiar to the author firsthand: during the war he worked as a radio correspondent in the besieged city and was a witness to the blockade and clashes between intelligence services. Ardamatsky’s works on counterintelligence were highly appreciated by professionals—he became a laureate of a KGB award in the field of literature, was awarded the golden medal named after N. Kuznetsov, and Rudolf Abel considered them very truthful.
In the novella, the career German intelligence officer Mihel Erik Axel, who had successfully operated against the Spanish Republic in 1936–1939, recruits Soviet citizens in Leningrad—people who, after the war began, were supposed to become the foundation of the enemy’s fifth column. However, the work of the Hitlerite agents was disrupted by Soviet counterintelligence and the vigilance of Leningrad residents.
During the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Ardamatsky kept diaries, and the book offered to the reader is the result of everything the writer saw and experienced in those terrible days in Leningrad.
In the novella, the career German intelligence officer Mihel Erik Axel, who had successfully operated against the Spanish Republic in 1936–1939, recruits Soviet citizens in Leningrad—people who, after the war began, were supposed to become the foundation of the enemy’s fifth column. However, the work of the Hitlerite agents was disrupted by Soviet counterintelligence and the vigilance of Leningrad residents.
During the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Ardamatsky kept diaries, and the book offered to the reader is the result of everything the writer saw and experienced in those terrible days in Leningrad.
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