Viktor Yanukovych – KGB agent of the USSR
Here are excerpts from the Ukrainian Russian-language press. This article does not carry a condemnatory tone but provides food for thought about the current moment in history and the trend in post-Soviet states.
People’s Deputy Grigory Omelchenko stated on December 9, 2009, that Viktor Yanukovych is a KGB agent, and his presidency is an operation devised by the Russian special services.
He told this in a live radio broadcast.
“I know the surname of the officer (who carried out the recruitment), now he is a reserve lieutenant general of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, he lives in Ukraine, is a citizen of Ukraine… lives in the south, his surname begins with ‘O,’ I will not say more,” Omelchenko said.
According to the parliamentarian, Russian special services, including psychologist-analysts, took practically everything into account in order to “push Yanukovych through as president, so that he would be completely controllable through the Russian special services….”
https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/4b1aae075ddf8/
Also, let me remind you that deputy Grigory Omelchenko made another high-profile statement concerning Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych. In an open address by People’s Deputy Omelchenko, announced by him in the Verkhovna Rada, the following was said: “Yanukovych was convicted the first time for robbery, the second time – for inflicting medium-gravity bodily injuries. After serving his sentence, Yanukovych again committed a serious crime – together with a group of people, he brutally beat and raped a woman. However, he bought off the victim. The criminal case was closed – the police covered it up.”
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On September 17, 2010, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Anna Herman stated that the agency intends to declassify archival materials about those who collaborated with the KGB in order to “cleanse society and increase trust in the authorities.” According to her, a law will be developed in the country that provides for the transfer of archival materials of the special services to the Institute of National Remembrance.
Human rights defender and political prisoner Levko Lukyanenko welcomes the initiative of the Viktor Yanukovych Presidential Administration to declassify lists of those who collaborated with the KGB in Soviet times, but considers this task difficult to accomplish.
“Many people who currently hold high positions and enjoy authority in society were KGB agents. They are not interested in such lists being opened, since they (now) would be ashamed of their actions,” Lukyanenko said.
Levko Lukyanenko noted that only the lists of those agents of the Soviet special services who currently hold state positions should be declassified for the public.
“Many people who used to be active KGB officers and repressed people have long passed into the grave, and those who remain… let them live out their lives as they do. What is important here is to cleanse state bodies of those people who carry the ideology of hatred toward the individual, which was characteristic of the KGB,” he emphasized.
Lukyanenko spent over 25 years in camps for anti-Soviet agitation.
Over the years of independence, the Parliament of Ukraine has several times considered draft laws prohibiting former KGB agents from holding state positions. But each time they did not receive the support of the required number of deputies.
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He could become the director of a state enterprise in 1976, when Yanukovych’s convictions had not yet been expunged, only with the approval of the KGB. The expungement of the convictions in 1978 was also certainly sanctioned by the KGB – with the purpose of “cleansing the legend” of its secret agent.
The publication “Ukrainska Pravda” published last Thursday documents about the two convictions, as well as some other very “piquant” details from Viktor Yanukovych’s biography.
The first crime for which Yanukovych was sentenced to three years of imprisonment was as follows:
“According to the court verdict, on October 29, 1967, the victim Sovenko with his cohabitant Bozykh, while in a state of alcohol intoxication, met the convicts Tsepkovsky, Maslov and Yanukovych in the area of 6th Line in the city of Yenakiyeve. The convict Tsepkovsky asked Sovenko for a light and, out of hooligan motives, struck him in the face with his fist, causing him to fall. Unidentified persons helped him get to his feet, and Sovenko approached the convicts to find out the reason for his beating. Convict Maslov, in response, again struck Sovenko forcefully in the face with his fist out of hooligan motives, causing him to fall, hit his head on a cobblestone, and lose consciousness. After that, the convicts removed the victim’s outer clothing, shoes, and a Vostok watch, which they divided among themselves. On October 30, 1967, the stolen items were seized from the convicts.”
Yanukovych’s second crime, for which he was sentenced to 2 years in prison, consisted of the following:
“Yanukovych and Bubyr were found guilty of the fact that on September 16, 1969, together with the victim Panteleenko and witness Martynenko, they drank alcoholic beverages, during the course of which a quarrel arose between them, turning into a fight. During the fight, Yanukovych and Bubyr beat Panteleenko, inflicting medium-gravity bodily injuries.”
However, subsequently, as is known, wonderful metamorphoses occurred in Viktor Yanukovych’s fate. At the end of 1978, the Donetsk Regional Court “miraculously” overturned these two convictions…
However, another important nuance in this entire story is particularly striking. So, the two convictions were annulled only in December 1978 – it is very important to remember this date.
And now attention must be paid to yet another date from Yanukovych’s official biography. Attention: on November 9, 1976, Viktor Yanukovych was appointed director of the motor depot of the Ordzhonikidzeugol production association… (https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/4b1a9b9a96a42/)
But let us recall those years and that country when and where the above-described events from Yanukovych’s life took place! It was the Soviet Union – a totalitarian state ruled by a single Communist Party, which defended, accordingly, “communist principles.” One of these principles was that a former convict could under no circumstances later become the head of a state enterprise (the motor depot of the Ordzhonikidzeugol production association was, naturally, a state enterprise)…
There could be only one exception to this immutable rule. In the USSR there was an all-powerful, world-renowned organization – the Committee for State Security (KGB), which alone could petition the leading party organs on behalf of its secret agents. Consequently, Yanukovych could become the director of a state enterprise in 1976, when his convictions had not yet been expunged, only with the KGB’s approval. The expungement of his convictions in 1978 was surely also authorized by the KGB – for the purpose of “cleansing the legend” of their secret agent.
At that time, the matter could only have been thus, and no other way. Therefore, the information confirming Yanukovych’s cooperation with the KGB, voiced 5 years ago by deputy Grigory Omelchenko, could not surprise knowledgeable people.
“I know the surname of the officer (who carried out the recruitment), now a reserve lieutenant general of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, he lives in Ukraine, is a citizen of Ukraine… he lives in the south, his surname begins with O, I won’t say more,” Omelchenko stated. According to him, Russian special services, including psychological analysts, took virtually everything into account in order to “push Yanukovych through as president, so that he would be completely and utterly controlled through Russian special services and, in particular, through Russian President Putin.” https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/4b1aae075ddf8/
Indeed, it is well known that immediately after the collapse of the USSR, KGB officers took all their archives from Ukraine to Moscow. Therefore, the Kremlin now knows whom Viktor Yanukovych “snitched” on in his time…
And it is precisely for this reason that Yanukovych now swears his friendship to Moscow, and the Kremlin rulers therefore so much want to “have” in Ukraine a president so “devoted” to them…
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Nikolai Semchenko, director of the Ordzhonikidzeugol production association, who in 1976 secured the appointment of 26‑year‑old Yanukovych as head of the association’s motor depot. How incredible this was for Viktor Yanukovych can be judged by three facts: the new motor depot director at the time of his appointment had neither experience nor seniority, was not a party member, and his biography was additionally burdened by two criminal convictions. Semchenko did the impossible for Yanukovych, something impossible for an ordinary Soviet citizen.
But even more for Viktor Yanukovych did Semchenko’s friend – pilot‑cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Beregovoy. Being a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he petitioned for the cancellation of Yanukovych’s convictions, helped him become a member of the CPSU in 1980, and subsequently took his protégé on as an assistant to the deputy. Donetsk judges still recall that in their lifetime no criminal had ever received the attention of such a highly placed “lawyer.” Accordingly, the decision to expunge Yanukovych’s convictions was programmed by the system of the power hierarchy existing at that time.
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Viktor Yanukovych was first convicted in December 1967 (as a member of the “Pivnovka” gang) to three years’ deprivation of freedom for robbery. Under an amnesty in honor of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, the term was halved, but Yanukovych was paroled even earlier, six months after his arrest. Nikolai Moskovchenko, who knew him from the colony and recently shared his prison memories with journalists, explained that Viktor Yanukovych was released thanks to so‑called “cooperation” with the colony administration.
However, in June 1970 Yanukovych was again sentenced to two years’ deprivation of freedom for inflicting bodily injuries of medium severity. The opposition Ukrainian press, citing certain participants and witnesses to the incident that led to his second arrest, claims that in fact the criminal case was initiated under the article for rape in an “unnatural way” (Article 118 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR). However, the press service of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers, which recently organized a mass excursion of journalists to the places of the premier’s stormy youth, asserts that in reality Yanukovych suffered because he tried to defend a certain girl from hooligans, a girl whose name initially appeared in the case file but later got lost.
It is only known that the issue of the convictions arose many times in the biography of the Ukrainian premier. Thus, in 1981 the Party Control Committee (PCC) sent a responsible inspector of the PCC, Mikhail Lyunkov, to Donetsk to verify the legality of the expungement of Yanukovych’s convictions. But Mikhail Lyunkov’s report has also been destroyed or classified by Moscow.
Twice‑convicted and far from brilliant applicant Yanukovych in 1974 easily entered the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute! In that same 1974, right after the colony, Viktor Yanukovych traveled abroad to take part as a race car driver in the famous rally in Monte Carlo, Monaco, and France!
Actually, traveling abroad, and especially to a capitalist country, for a person who had been released only two years earlier after a second “stretch,” was excluded in Soviet times. I call as witnesses former KGB officers and members of the commissions for travel abroad under regional committees of the CPSU – even a trip to Bulgaria on the “Druzhba” train was practically impossible for those who not only had served time themselves but even had a convicted family member.
The Soviet citizen was supposed to serve as a morally steadfast and ideologically savvy representative of the state, especially when it came to visiting the hostile capitalist camp. In fact, even though Yanukovych’s criminal record was considered expunged at the time of his departure abroad, it changed nothing, since the KGB was concerned with the very fact of the conviction, not the citizen’s legal status.
Let me give just one example. At roughly the same time, in September 1970, Nina Nikolaevna Grin, widow of the writer Alexander Grin, who died in 1932 and was buried in the town of Stary Krym, passed away in Kyiv. Despite the deceased’s wishes and the colossal efforts of her friends, the authorities never granted permission to bury Nina Nikolaevna next to Alexander Stepanovich, on the grounds that in 1945 the writer’s widow had been repressed—she was sentenced to 10 years in labor camps for staying in territory occupied by the Germans.
And although the deceased’s conviction had been expunged back in 1963, the KGB could not allow the former prisoner, even after death, to cast a shadow on the outstanding Soviet writer (who had been banned from publication while alive and was not considered a Soviet writer) simply by the fact of her conviction.
As a result of negotiations that lasted several days, the KGB allowed Nina Nikolaevna to be buried in the same cemetery as her husband, but 70 meters from his grave. Only a year later, in October 1971, did a few admirers of Grin’s work, secretly, under cover of night and away from the ubiquitous eye of state security, transfer Nina Nikolaevna’s ashes into her husband’s grave, fulfilling her last wish. For which they received no end of trouble from the most notorious institution in the USSR.
In fact, no ruling of the people’s court of Yenakiyeve on the early expungement of the conviction could, by itself, open the way abroad for Yanukovych. That ruling was a formality needed only to preserve appearances when processing the travel documents to the Principality of Monaco for a citizen who, a few years earlier, had been convicted of robbery and causing bodily harm. One can only guess what services this citizen had rendered to the state and to its vanguard—the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
But there is yet another party that knows the essence of the Yanukovych case. And it keeps Yanukovych cornered. That party is Moscow.
A part of the criminal case—we do not know which part—is in Russia. Previously one could only guess about this. Now we know for sure.
A unique document has come into the possession of Ukrainska Pravda. It confirms that the Yanukovych case is indeed in Russia. The very case that cannot be found in Ukraine, because it was destroyed.
It is an extract from the main information center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Prepared by an employee of the Special Information Department, Seregina.
https://www2.pravda.com.ua/ru/archive/2004/november/19/7.shtml
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