Some critics of Stalin's policy, such as the popular writer Viktor Suvorov, claim that Stalin's primary motive for signing the Soviet – German non-aggression treaty was his calculation that such a pact could result in a conflict between the capitalist countries of Western Europe.

The Liberators, by Viktor Suvorov, is an eyewitness description of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, from the point of view of a Soviet tank commander.

A number of books were written about the Spetsnaz GRU, the best known of these being Aquarium by Viktor Suvorov, a GRU agent who defected to the West.

It became widely known in Russia, and the West outside the narrow confines of the intelligence community, during perestroika, in part thanks to the writings of " Viktor Suvorov " ( Vladimir Rezun ), a GRU agent who defected to Britain in 1978, and wrote about his experiences in the Soviet military and intelligence services.

* Viktor Suvorov ( Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun )

* Viktor Suvorov Aquarium (), 1985, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN 0-241-11545-0

* Viktor Suvorov Inside Soviet Military Intelligence, 1984, ISBN 0-02-615510-9

* Viktor Suvorov Spetsnaz, 1987, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN 0-241-11961-8

* Viktor Suvorov ( born 1947 ), pseudonym of Vladimir Rezun, a Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the UK in 1978 and published several books about his Soviet Army experiences

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Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War ?, by Viktor Suvorov ( Russian title: Ledokol, Ледокол ) is a 1987 documentary book, which alleges that World War II started as a result of Joseph Stalin's ploy to " liberate " the working class of Europe and eventually the whole world.

Chernenko's illness was first acknowledged publicly on 22nd February 1985 during a televised election rally in Kuibyshev Borough of northeast Moscow, where the General Secretary stood as candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, when Politburo member Viktor Grishin revealed that the General Secretary was absent in accordance with doctors ' advice.

* Viktor Kuznetsov ( footballer ) ( born 1949 ), Soviet international footballer

* Viktor Kuznetsov ( swimmer ) ( born 1961 ), Soviet backstroke swimmer

The Soviet leadership wanted to ease Karmal out of politics, but when Najibullah began to complain that he was hampering his plans of National Reconciliation, the Soviet Politburo decided to remove Karmal ; this motion was supported by Andrei Gromyko, Yuli Vorontsov, Eduard Shevardnadze, Anatoly Dobrynin and Viktor Chebrikov.

* 1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast ( d. 1984 )

* 1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

Meanwhile Captain Viktor Tupolev, a former student of Ramius who now commands a Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine named after Vladimir Konovalov, has been trailing what he at first believes is an Ohio-class submarine.

* February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 ( Viktor Gorbatko, Yuri Glazkov ) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.

* September 18 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet Armenian scientist ( d. 1996 )

** Viktor Saneyev, Soviet athlete

* August 12 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet Armenian scientist ( b. 1908 )

** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.

Its sites were discovered and named by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi ( 1976 ).

Andropov was advised by his Defence Minister Dmitriy Ustinov and by the head of the KGB Viktor Chebrikov to keep secret the fact that the Soviet Union held in its possession the sought-after " black box " from KAL 007.

Yeltsin ’ s early purges of the MVD paid dividends in October 1993 when in spite of many " defections " to the opposition, the two most important people in the ministry, Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Yerin and the Commander of Internal Troops Anatoliy Kulikov, stood by him to the victorious end of his stand-off with the Supreme Soviet.

Spassky finished in a tie for ninth at the 27th Soviet final in Leningrad, with 10 / 19, as fellow Leningrader Viktor Korchnoi scored his first of four Soviet titles.

* 1988: The Prisoner of Castle If, Soviet miniseries starring Viktor Avilov ( Count of Monte Cristo ) and Aleksei Petrenko ( Abbé Faria ), composer is Alexander Gradsky

* In the Soviet series of television films The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson by Igor Maslennikov, Moriarty was played by Viktor Yevgrafov and voiced by Oleg Dahl in the second film of the series.

Mid-and late Soviet children's books by Eduard Uspensky, Yuri Entin, Viktor Dragunsky bear no signs of propaganda.

The late Soviet historical fiction was dominated by World War II novels and short stories by authors such as Boris Vasilyev, Viktor Astafyev, Boris Polevoy, Vasil Bykaŭ, among many others, based on the authors ' own war experience.

Along with a number of other Soviet Chess champions, he signed a petition condemning the actions of the defector Viktor Korchnoi in 1976.