Viktor Suvorov was born on April 20, 1947 (real name Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun), a Soviet intelligence officer who fled to the UK, a writer-historian Personal Affairs . Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun . Viktor Suvorov (67 years old) was born in the village of Barabash of Primorsky Krai in a military family . By father - Ukrainian, by mother - Russian. In 1965 he graduated from the Suvorov Military School, after which he continued his studies at the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School, graduated with honors. At the age of 19, he was admitted to the CPSU .. Participated in the operation to bring troops into the territory of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In 1971-1974 he studied at the Military-Diplomatic Academy, then worked in the Soviet military intelligence under the cover of the USSR Permanent Mission in Geneva. In 1978, he fled to the United Kingdom. According to his own claim, in the USSR was sentenced to death. In 2005, he unsuccessfully tried to come to his relatives in Ukraine .. After the change of power in Kiev in February 2014, he received this opportunity. He lives in Bristol .. In his historical and journalistic works, Suvorov proposed an alternative interpretation of the preparation of the Second World War. In his opinion, since the spring of 1941, the Red Army was preparing to attack Germany. Allegedly, this strike was to be delivered on July 6 in the framework of Operation Thunderstorm .. The crushing defeats of the Soviet army at the beginning of the war Suvorov explains that she was caught by surprise and did not prepare for defensive action. In his autobiographical works, he tells about the army and military intelligence of the Soviet Union. Most historians reject Suvorov’s concept of a preemptive attack by the Nazis on the USSR. The main book of the writer is the novel “Icebreaker” (1968-1981), which proves this point of view at the beginning of the Second World War. In his autobiographical book Aquarium (1985), Suvorov talks about Soviet special forces and the GRU. In the work "Inside the Soviet Army" (1982) refers to the structure of the Soviet army and weapons used in the USSR, in the United States became the book of the month. In Liberator (1981), the author tells about the life of cadets in a military school, about the service of officers of the Soviet army and about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Suvorov’s books have been translated into more than twenty languages of the world. Rezun-Suvorov reacts very painfully to criticism. According to a number of sources, after fleeing to the West, Rezun-Suvorov’s property was not confiscated, which in the conditions of the USSR can be regarded as an unprecedented act. None of the GRU agents who worked with Rezun-Suvorov were exposed by Western intelligence agencies. One of the first stated that during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1940, the Red Army achieved phenomenal success, and did not show weak combat training, as it was previously thought. Suvorov claims that the Soviet Antarctic program was directly supervised by the GRU and was aimed at escorting the launch of intercontinental missiles across the South Pole to the United States.