the niece of the scout asked the city authorities to transfer the remains of their relative, due to the fact that grave Kuznetsova in Lviv was constantly the object of abuse and was defiled.
Earlier in February, the mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovy, reports “the Country”, have made this issue a subject of political bargaining, denying the woman under the pretext that, they say, while Russia will not return held by Ukrainians, the dust it does not receive. “To the Garden not even realize that the dust of this man does not belong to him,” – commented the decision of the Lviv mayor of Odessa journalist Yuri Tkachev.
the Ukrainian nationalists have repeatedly desecrated the memory of the scout-illegal immigrant, as in the 1990s, and in 2010-ies. In 1992, the museums of glory Kuznetsova in Rivne and Lviv, were eliminated. In 2015, had been destroyed a monument to Kuznetsov in the village Pouch Rivne region. The name of the official in Poroshenko made the list of persons subject to “the Law on de-communization” and the city of Kuznetsovsk in Rivne region, named after him, was renamed in Varash. On the night of 21 June 2018 at the grave Kuznetsova on the Hill of glory in Lviv unknown painted yellow paint the Trident and wrote “enemy of the UPA” (a group banned in Russia) and “the executioner”. After a month the grave of scout desecrated again, filling in the inscription on the gravestone. The radical nationalists said so “Kuznetsov congratulated with the day of the liberation of Lvov from Nazi invaders.” Finally, in March 2019 unknown stole a bronze bas-relief of Nikolai Kuznetsov tombstones on the Hill of glory.
Nikolai Kuznetsov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and which perfectly mastered the German language, (in the orientation of the Abwehr to his capture indicated that he is fluent in six dialects of German), was abandoned in Nazi-occupied territory at the age of 31 years as a Lieutenant (senior Lieutenant) Paul Siebert. He was a member of “a Special group of the people’s Commissar of internal Affairs of the USSR”, which in January 1942 was converted into the 4th Department of the NKVD. It was led by the legendary security officer, senior major of state security Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov. From October 1942 Kuznetsov led intelligence activities in Exactly, constantly communicated with the officers of the Wehrmacht, intelligence agencies, senior officials of the occupation authorities, passing information to the guerrilla group. He personally eliminated 11 generals and high-ranking officials of the puppet administration of the Nazis. From Kuznetsova was received and reported to Stalin the first information about the planned attempt on the heads of USSR, USA and great Britain during the Tehran conference in 1943. Died in March 1944 in the battle of Bandera, disguised as soldiers of the red Army and received orders to take the officer in German uniform alive. Stopkey spy was discovered on 17 September 1959 in the tract Kuchiki during search operations group under the leadership of his comrade Nicholas strutynsky. The reburial of the remains Kuznetsova has occurred on the Hill of glory in Lviv on 27 July 1960.
Yuriy Boyko, co-Chairman of the faction “the Opposition platform of Pro – Life” in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine:
– the Decision of the Lviv city Council to refuse to relatives in the reburial of the hero of the great Patriotic war, intelligence agent Nikolai Kuznetsov is a desecration of the memory of all veterans of the great Patriotic war and the fighters against fascism. Lviv city Council openly celebrates the collaborators and accomplices of Nazism. Its decision on the eve of Victory Day, they are not just trying to deprive people of their legitimate rights. They tend to shoot the story and take revenge for the defeat inflicted on their ideological fathers, the masterminds. They don’t even understand what the international outcry provoked by this refusal. Modern Ukraine finally becomes a nationalist government that openly mocks human rights and attempts to revise the results of world war II. “The opposition platform of Pro – Life” demands to reconsider this inhumane and damaging to the residents of Lviv and the Ukrainian people’s decision. We demand to lift the ban on the transfer of the ashes of the hero of the Patriotic war Nikolay Kuznetsov to his relatives. We appeal directly to the President Zelensky with a demand to intervene in this situation and unblock the process.
Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut:
– the appearance of the masked vigilante Nikolai Kuznetsov was always an example for me of infinite service to his people and to his country, humanity and progress.
