“This” is perhaps the last or greatest secret of the Soviet Union, so carefully concealed that until now there is hardly any mention of it.
What the author of this article knows about her is due simply to chance, or rather to the breadth of nature (although, if you think hard, you can call it disorderly), which is characteristic of our compatriots and is possibly part of the national character. Then comes my restless curiosity, suppressed by nondisclosure subscriptions that I happened to give during my service in the USSR Armed Forces, and a certain tendency towards systematization and analysis.
But about the main, albeit indirect confirmation, a little later, and now - a small digression:
Not so long ago, an interview with Valery Pavlovich Buldakov, a person close to S. P. Korolev, and among other things, this is what he said:
In 1948 S. P. The Queen was summoned to the Kremlin. In the room where he was, there were many documents on the table: encrypted messages, newspaper materials, printed documents dedicated to the problem of unidentified flying objects (as you know, during the Second World War, many cases of UFO sightings were recorded by all the warring parties). The Queen was asked to familiarize herself with them, but only in this room. Korolev sat there for two or three days. When he finished, Stalin came out to him and asked what he thought about it. Korolev replied (all according to Buldakov) that UFOs are not a weapon of a potential enemy, that the phenomenon is very interesting and requires comprehensive study, especially now, when we will go beyond the atmosphere.
Then Stalin asked if this was an external threat and if the UFO was the creation of human hands, to which Korolev replied no. For Korolev, this episode ended with nothing, in any case, I did not find information about such meetings or conversations.
It was not by chance that I singled out the phrase “external threat”. As you know, Stalin never said anything just like that. Behind a simple question was the realization of the fact that the Soviet Union, having won the Great Patriotic War, was or could be defenseless in the face of a new enemy. Whether this enemy was going to fight with us or was just studying - nobody knew, but 1941 and our defeat in the first war years still stood in the memory. This should not have happened the second time.
The fact that the enemy is so unreal does not at all testify to the incorrectness of my thoughts, but only to the fact that the mass media and heaps of amateur and pseudo-scientific UFO societies have completely distorted the real picture, muddying the uninitiated heads. It is known that UFOs were engaged in both the USSR and the USA at the most serious level.
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That there is only one program to search for artificial objects near the moon, which was carried out by the US army (!) In the mid-50s. Or, an example from the recent past: up to the appearance of Buran, our popular publications and popularizers of science said in unison: Americans are following a vicious path, the shuttle scheme is expensive and does not pay off. And here: the beautiful Energia-Buran nevertheless started from the Baikonur cosmodrome!
Of course, Stalin's train of thought is unknown to me, the exact date is also unknown, but most likely it was in 1948 that Stalin made the decision to create a weapon to counter this unknown threat.
And, actually, confirmation of this
In 1987, I, the "green" lieutenant, was dispatched to take part in the inventory of the secret library. This case, it seems, was not particularly desirable, since young lieutenants and one captain, from those who were called "eternal" (who had the honor of belonging to the officer corps, will understand me), were appointed as inspectors.
For a week we hung out in a small room away from our home and went through documents and objects, checked inventory numbers and the contents of folders according to the inventory. To be honest, with such an abundance of threatening notes about secrecy, one felt one's own involvement in matters of state importance.
Once I came across an object the size of a matchbox, which, judging by the documents, was the highest secrecy that could have been (since loyalty to all receipts has been preserved in me to this day, I do not give either the part number, or the surname, or specific details and the degree of secrecy, although I can cite all of them, so it's not worth incriminating me in this particular part of the story).
We, lieutenants, were surprised - they say, such a trick, but has the highest degree of secrecy. Word for word, a conversation began, or rather a chatter, and then the wise old captain said that we were in the army and would not see this yet and told the story of how he took part in the destruction of secret documents as a member of the commission and executor many years ago.
The documents were burned in a semi-basement room, in a stove. Everything was packed, but the special officer advised him to burn better, to unlace the papers before thrusting them into the fire and stirring them well. Of course, the contents of the documents could be examined in time. So, the captain told us that the papers concerning the testing of weapons against aliens were destroyed. Moreover, they were destroyed hastily and urgently. Well, he told some details.
It stuck in my memory and then I did not miss any opportunity to learn more about this weapon. To ask questions directly was not given by the knowledge absorbed in the educational institution: who asks many questions, arouses natural suspicion, and the phrase “in the part concerning you” that has settled in the memory. What does not concern you, you should not know. By the way, to justify Captain N, I will say that once I tried to lead him to the previous conversation, but he made it clear that I was not supposed to know more.
However, belonging to a special branch of the USSR forces - the space forces (which, however, in 1987 were still in their infancy and were called the "Office of the Chief of Space Means") and people associated with them, individual phrases, scraps of information, interviews, as in the case of Buldakov, made it possible to obtain a more or less complete, albeit general picture, not deepened by detailed details.
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There she is
Around 1948 or a little later, the Soviet Union began developing weapons that would make it possible to resist possible aggression or hostile actions from space. Like the atomic project, this project was led by Beria, but the level of secrecy was much higher.
From the very beginning, the following problem arose: it is not known what the enemy is, what weapons and what capabilities he has to counter us. In the absence of initial data, it was decided to divide the project into two components: chemical-biological and physical (the names were given by me conditionally, it is possible that they were called somehow differently).
In the first direction, I know almost nothing, it is possible that a vaccine or a drug was developed there that is harmless to humans, but affecting life forms based on a different metabolism.
In the second direction, the project was initially oriented towards the nuclear power plant or possibly overlapped with it. That is, the atomic bomb was viewed as a universal weapon capable of deterring any aggressor. However, the project was later changed, and it delved into a completely different area.
It is not known whether an analogue of the Philadelphia experiment was carried out in our country, and whether everything that is written about it is true, but in the USSR they did the same - the problem of time. It is necessary to put an ellipsis here, since I could not unearth absolutely no information about the work on the problem of physical time in the USSR. However, this is another indirect confirmation of my research. Everything that related to secret data or even hinted at something, we closed and kept silent. For example, in the 40s and 50s, information about the Arctic was hidden, and there was no mention of it in the media at all. The reason was that they were preparing for war with the United States and were studying the Arctic as a possible springboard. In the same way, they hid about the work in the field of time. Cause? It is still unknown.
But the result is known. And what a result!
One more fact
In 1955, at the Semipalatinsk test site, among other nuclear explosions, there was one strange one. Strange by the standards of the uninitiated and those who were not warned: the explosion occurred … two hours ahead of schedule. Two hours earlier? An atomic bomb test? IN THE USSR? Judging from my own experience: I remember how the launch vehicles were postponed, I remember how they were in a hurry to meet the spacecraft preparation schedule. But so that earlier …
So, the explosion happened two hours earlier. According to the testimony of Sergei Andreevich Alekseenko, a military builder who worked at the test site from 1953 to 1955, their group on August 12, 1955 studied strange equipment damage at the test site and suddenly a low-power atomic charge exploded not far away. The head of the group looked in a daze at his watch and swore, saying that they went crazy there: they blew up two hours earlier, knowing that there were people at the epicenter!
Within a project, this is very similar to the end result. A weapon has been developed that is capable of GUARANTEED DESTROY any aggressor, if he makes an attack on the USSR. Despite any unfavorable outcomes of a sudden strike, there is ALWAYS a possibility of rollback: the enemy side is simply destroyed BEFORE the start of its offensive.
Now there are reflections that, perhaps, only lead away from the truth.
As far as I know, the materials on the project after an event are destroyed every last one. Data about the project is lost, it is possible that Lavrenty Beria even began a campaign to eliminate the scientists-developers and participants-witnesses. The reasons? The knowledge of such weapons will inevitably, sooner or later, leak out either to our beloved probable enemy, the United States, or to those against whom we were preparing weapons - aliens.
The guarantee of better secrecy is the complete closure of developments, especially since the Weapon (I will allow you to call it with a capital letter, since it is really a super-weapon) does not need mass deployment, such as ballistic missile complexes with nuclear warheads. One device disguised as conventional weapons, say a ballistic missile, is enough.
Operators using it don't even need to know that in their introduction - the decision to use comes from the Supreme Commander. This scheme of concealing the true purpose is quite reasonable. Moreover, within the framework of this scheme, there is no need to disclose the essence of the weapon even to the supreme leadership of the country, rather scanty information that in ANY situation we are able to strike the first blow at the attacker (is it not because, having this information, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchov played so dangerously with the United States and went to aggravation during the Cuban missile crisis? Had a trump card that beats any card!)
Second option. The results obtained during the experiment, or during the development, prove the fundamental inapplicability of this type of weapon. For example, paradoxes arise: the enemy has made an attack, we deliver a preemptive strike several hours earlier, when the attack has not yet been made. And the point is not even that we are the aggressors, in which of the times we will find ourselves: after all, from the point of view of the observer, our preemptive explosion occurs, the enemy is destroyed, there is no longer a need for a preemptive strike, a decision is not made. Then who and when made the initial decision to strike?
Questions are not translated
Did the Americans know about this weapon and did they do such work themselves? If yes, then could they have an idea to carry out a disarming blow at us? Or knowing that we also have something similar, we did not risk starting the game "Who used to be" for mutual destruction.
Or, not knowing the true nature of time, one can even assume that something terrible happened: the USSR was attacked, no matter who, we used the Weapon and now we live in a changed world, not suspecting that it is no longer the same …
Alexander U