The head of the special operation of the Soviet special services to destroy the leader of Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera lived in the capital of independent Ukraine until 2008.

This is on air "The Observer. LIVE "told the historian Vladimir Birchak.

"All the time they talked about the direct performer, but very few people remembered the leader of this operation - Svyatogorova Alexander. He is a native of the Kharkov region. Worked in the security organs at the beginning of the war in Zaporozhye. And Svyatogorov was the head of the Bandera liquidation operation, "he said..

According to the historian, Svyatogorov did not admit himself in operations against the nationalist movement.

"He successfully held it (a special operation. - Ed). We even in the archives of the SBU found an order to reward Svyatogorov for the liquidation of Bandera. He was awarded a valuable gift and a cash prize. What is interesting is that Svyatogorov lived in Kiev until 2008, being a well-deserved veteran, receiving a veteran pension as an employee of security agencies. Svyatogorov is on the board of honor of the Foreign Intelligence Service as a well-known scout. Although there he does not say anything about nationalists in his biography, but says that he was engaged exclusively in the Germans. Although the facts speak of another, "Birchak stressed.

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