Before Viktor Suvorov, no one talked about the Soviet Army with such frankness, rejecting any censorship—whether external or internal. Viktor Suvorov is the pseudonym of Major (according to another version—Colonel) V.B. Rezun, of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GRU), who defected to the West in 1978. He was sentenced to death in absentia, and the sentence has not been revoked to this day.
And so, under the threat of death, he writes his books. Death can catch him at any moment: when agencies such as the Ministry of Security and the GRU get involved, there are plenty of options—even if you are hiding in England: a car accident, a shot from an ambush, poison in food, a sudden injection. The book "Stories of the Liberator" (in this edition—"The Liberator") was published in the West a few years ago, but even now it is read with enormous interest. Either nothing has changed with us, or the author’s talent has endured the competition with time?