Poet Leonid Lyman. “How I Became an Enemy of the People”

Among a series of the kgb’s operational cultivations of representatives of the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia who found themselves in exile, the case of poet Leonid Lyman occupies a separate niche. At least in terms of the methods used to compromise him. A step-by-step disclosure of the kgb’s “kitchen” based on declassified documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine makes it possible to clearly show how evidence of anti-soviet activity was falsified, non-existent facts were invented, the names of well-known international organizations and the signatures of their leaders were used, and how foreign journalists were involved in spreading false information.

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