Retired intelligence major general shot himself in Moscow and left a "secret note"

The body of 90-year-old Lev Sotskov was discovered by his wife in a high-rise apartment on Novatorov Street, MK reports.

The former intelligence officer shot himself in the head with a premium pistol, leaving a suicide note:

The pistol is a relic of the battles on the Khalkhin Gol River. Received by me when I was a representative of the special services of Mongolia on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Ulan Bator event. 1989 L. Sotskov.

Sotskov was on operational work abroad for 40 years, he also worked at the Center. Recently, he has been studying archival materials on the history of intelligence, has written several books, in particular, "Operation Tarantella" about the work of Soviet intelligence against the British.

He was also one of those who commented on the declassified archival documents of the SVR concerning political processes in Europe before and after the signing of the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938, which, we recall, was signed by Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. It provided that Czechoslovakia would liberate and cede the Sudetenland to Germany within 10 days. Sotskov said that the Kremlin knew about the impending attack by Nazi Germany on Czechoslovakia. But Stalin ignored the warnings because he did not trust the analysts.

This situation once again confirms that in no case should the aggressor be encouraged, regardless of whether he is big or small. After all, history shows that as soon as people who want world domination appear, it will be a big trouble if they are not curbed in time, said the intelligence general.

Perhaps there is some hidden meaning in the suicide note, because it is known that in the battles on the Khalkhin Gol River, the Japanese troops had a threefold superiority in forces (about 40 thousand people, 130 tanks, more than 200 aircraft), but after bloody battles they were forced to temporarily retreat . The same thing is happening now in the war in Ukraine: the outnumbered Rashist army cannot break the resistance of the Ukrainian army.

The battles on the Khalkhin Gol River were called by the Russian media "a lesson for the samurai", "a conflict that became a prerequisite for the victory over fascism." Perhaps Sotsky meant that "the rashists will receive a lesson in Ukraine, and rashism will be defeated"?