The images of the communist leaders were considered shrines in the #USSR, and desecration of them was usually severely punished. But this Soviet secret police document, dated October 1940, informs us of an investigation into the destruction of the portrait of ... Adolf #Hitler!
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Written by Eduard Andryushchenko.
Host: Pavlo Morkovkin.
Video editor: Pavlo Morkovkin.
Design by Alyona Troyan.
I'm Eduard Andryushchenko, a Ukrainian historian and journalist. KGB Files is a history channel presenting fascinating stories I find in declassified #KGB archives.
Contains images:
Romania after the territorial losses of 1940. The recovery of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina was the catalyst for Romania's entry into the war on Germany's side / Anton Gutsunaev / CC BY-SA 3.0
Planned and actual territorial changes in Central Europe: 1939–1940 / Peter Hanula / CC BY-SA 3.0
ADN-ZB/Archiv Sowjetunion, August 1939, Im Moskauer Kreml wird am 23.8.1939 ein Nichtangriffsvertrag zwischen dem deutschen Reich und der UdSSR unterzeichnet. Nach der Unterzeichnung im Gespräch J.W. Stalin und der deutsche Reichsaußenminister Joachim von Ribbentrop (r.). / Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H27337 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
