On December 11, Georgy Sannikov, a veteran of the SVR, who participated in punitive special operations of the NKVD in Western Ukraine, died in Moscow at the age of 94. In Moscow, Sannikov was called almost the main "exterminator of the Bandera underground", and in Ukraine he was nicknamed the "red executioner". He led a detachment of fake resistance fighters and visited farms. The Ukrainians happily fed and watered the "rebels", and in the morning, including children, they were already taken to the dungeons of the NKVD.
Sannikov actively participated in the operational radio games of the Soviet counterintelligence with foreign centers of the OUN and prepared illegal immigrants to be sent to Europe. He is also credited with the successful recruitment of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian resistance, Vasily Kuk, who, after severe torture, agreed to work for the Lubyanka. Cook spent 6 years in the zone, and then wrote an open letter to the leaders of the Ukrainian insurgency and called for the recognition of the USSR as the legitimate authority.
After Ukraine, Colonel Sannikov was sent to residency at the PGU KGB in West Germany, where he personally recruited several officials and journalists. In 1970-1971, as a press attaché of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he participated in the quadripartite negotiations on West Berlin. In 1977, he retired, but continued to advise illegal immigrants sent to Germany. In 2015, he was awarded the Patriot of Russia commemorative medal for active public work. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia, actively participated in public work on the patriotic education of youth. In 2018, for writing the book "They were tempered by the war …", he was awarded the SVR Prize.
