The veterans who sat next to Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin at the May 9 victory parade on Red Square did not participate in World War II battles against the Nazis.
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In fact, these are former employees of the NKVD and the KGB, according to the Russian edition of Agency.
As the journalists found out, 98-year-old Yury Dvoikin was sitting to the right of Putin. He enlisted in the volunteer army in 1942, but did not get to the front. In 1944, after graduating from the sniper school, he was sent to the NKVD in the Lvov region “to carry out operations to eliminate the nationalist underground on the territory of Western Ukraine.”
To the left of the president was 88-year-old Gennady Zaitsev, born in 1934. He was called up for military service in 1953, after which he remained in the army and joined the KGB six years later.
1968 Zaitsev took part in the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia to suppress anti-Soviet protests. He led a group of the 7th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in the Danube operation, under his command the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Prague was captured. In the 1970s, Zaitsev headed the Alfa antiterrorist group.
Source: Racurs
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