In the Soviet Union, they knew how and loved to keep secrets. So, in fact, it is easier to govern a country whose citizens live under the motto "the less you know, the better you sleep." Both glasnost and the subsequent collapse of the Land of the Soviets failed to break through the half-century armor of omissions and outright lies. What, for example, was hidden behind the curtains of the Cuban missile crisis? Where did portable nuclear bombs come from in the Soviet Union? And the most interesting thing - where, in the end, did billions from the emergency reserve of "party gold" go?
Lunar program
By the 60s of the last century, the USSR was leading the space race. The first satellite, the first animal, the first man - so how did it happen that the Americans were still in time for the moon? Until 1981, the Soviet Union generally denied the existence of a manned lunar program - until the Kosmos-434 satellite entered the atmosphere over Australia. Then they had to admit that it was an experimental spacecraft to the Moon, but no other details of the program are still known.
Portable nuclear bomb
Rumors that the Soviet Union had developed portable nuclear weapons turned out to be true. To unforgettable memory, General Lebed let the Western press slip that he himself saw these nuclear devices. The so-called "nuclear knapsack" RYA-6 weighing 25 kilograms and with a capacity of one kiloton was in service with the GRU.
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Biological weapons
According to rumors, biological weapons appeared in the Land of the Soviets during the Second World War. Western experts still believe that in 1942, Soviet scientists infected German invaders with tularemia, which was carried by previously infected rats.
Caribbean crisis
In 1962, several rounds of secret negotiations took place between Nikita Khrushchev, Raul Castro and Enresto Che Guevara. The results are well known to everyone: Cuba agreed to deploy nuclear weapons on its territory - but what could the USSR leader promise in exchange for such a risk?
Operation "Flute"
Everyone knows that the Americans conducted experiments on the use of psychotropic drugs on their soldiers. The head of the direction, scientist Ken Alibek, became a defector and led the development of psychotropic drugs already under the development of the KGB. Operation "Flute" took place in several stages: murders, abductions, recruiting were carried out using the latest psychotropic drugs.
Bunker of the final blow
The secret underground bunker "Grotto" has repeatedly been "shone" in the press. Each time the existence of this dinosaur from the times of the USSR was explained differently - either uranium is produced here, or a shelter for the government is being built. For a long time, the Americans believed (and perhaps they were right) that the secret headquarters of the "retaliatory strike" strategic missile forces was located here.
Party gold
Probably the most delicious secret of the post-Soviet period is the question of where the notorious "party gold" actually disappeared. Huge, truly incredible amounts of money in gold remained with the Communist Party after the collapse of the USSR. And then they just disappeared into thin air.