Stirlitz Without Makeup. Seventeen Moments of Lies

This hero enjoys nationwide love. The famous television series has long become a film classic. It is precisely “Seventeen Moments of Spring” that tens of millions of viewers use to judge the work of Soviet intelligence during the Great Patriotic War, taking the film’s plot as absolute truth. But in reality, both the feats shown here and the image of the main character are either invented or distorted almost beyond recognition.

In truth, everything was completely different. Much more complex—and… “cooler.” The real story of the tragic fate of the man believed to be the prototype of Stierlitz, but who in fact didn’t live to see 1945 and died back in 42—m because of a Moscow mistake; the details of secret operations of Soviet intelligence that were kept under wraps; the true background of the events and food for thought—in a new sensational book by Klim Degtyarev. Don’t miss it!