# Viktor Suvorov

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Russian author, former GRU officer (born 1947)

In this name that follows [East Slavic naming customs](/source/East_Slavic_naming_customs), the [patronymic](/source/Patronymic) is *Bogdanovich* and the [family name](/source/Surname) is *Rezun*.

Viktor Suvorov Suvorov in 2007 Native name Владимир Богданович Резун Виктор Суворов Born Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (1947-04-20) 20 April 1947 (age 79) Barabash, Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR Notable works Aquarium, Icebreaker Spouse Tatiana Korzh

**Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun** (Russian: Владимир Богданович Резун; Ukrainian: Володи́мир Богда́нович Рєзу́н; born 20 April 1947), known by his pseudonym of **Viktor Suvorov** (Виктор Суворов), is a former [Soviet GRU](/source/GRU_(Soviet_Union)) officer who is the author of [non-fiction](/source/Nonfiction) books about [World War II](/source/World_War_II), the GRU and the [Soviet Army](/source/Soviet_Army), as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects.

After defecting to the United Kingdom in 1978, Suvorov began his writing career, publishing his first books in the 1980s about his own experiences and the structure of the [Soviet military](/source/Soviet_Armed_Forces), [intelligence](/source/Military_intelligence), and [secret police](/source/Secret_police). He writes in Russian with a number of his books translated into English, including his semi-autobiographical *[The Liberators](/source/The_Liberators_(Suvorov_book))* (1981). In the [USSR](/source/Soviet_Union), according to Suvorov and according to an [interview](/source/Interview) with the former head of the GRU, he was [sentenced to death](/source/Capital_punishment) in absentia.[1][2]

In his [military history](/source/Military_history) books, he offers an alternative view of the role of the [USSR in World War II](/source/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II); the first and most well-known book on this topic being *[Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War?](/source/Icebreaker_(non-fiction_book))*. The proposed concept and the methods of its substantiation have caused [numerous discussions and criticism](/source/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy) in historical and social circles. In *Icebreaker*, *M Day* and several follow-up books Suvorov argued that [Joseph Stalin](/source/Joseph_Stalin) planned to use [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany) as a [proxy](/source/Proxy_war) (the "Icebreaker") against the [West](/source/Western_world).[3] The books are based on his personal analysis of Soviet [military investments](/source/Military_budget), [diplomatic](/source/Diplomacy) maneuvers, [Politburo](/source/Politburo) speeches and other [circumstantial evidence](/source/Circumstantial_evidence).

Suvorov also wrote a number of fiction books about the Soviet Army, military intelligence and the pre-war history of the USSR. The trilogy *Control*, *Choice* and *Snake-eater* was a bestseller and was approached for [movie adaptations](/source/Film_adaptation). According to *[Novye Izvestia](/source/Novye_Izvestia)*, an online newspaper, the circulation of some of Suvorov's books exceeds a million copies.[3]

## Early years

Administration building in [Barabash](/source/Barabash_(rural_locality)).

Suvorov, born Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, comes from a military family of mixed Ukrainian-Russian descent; his father, Bogdan Vasilyevich Rezun, was a veteran of [WWII](/source/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)) and a Ukrainian, while his mother Vera Spiridonovna Rezun (Gorevalova) is Russian. According to his own statements, Suvorov considers himself, his wife and children to be Ukrainians. He was born in the village of [Barabash](/source/Barabash_(rural_locality)), Primorsky Krai; raised in Ukraine's [Cherkasy](/source/Cherkasy), where his father served. The family subsequently settled in [Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic](/source/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic) after his father's retirement.

According to Suvorov, he went to first grade in the village of [Slavyanka (Primorsky Territory)](/source/Slavyanka%2C_Primorsky_Krai), then studied in the village of Barabash. In 1957, after graduating on four classes, at the age of 11 he entered the [Suvorov Military School](/source/Suvorov_Military_School) in [Voronezh](/source/Voronezh) (from 1958 to 1963). In 1963, the school was disbanded, and the students, including Rezun, were transferred to the Kalinin (now [Tver](/source/Tver)) Suvorov Military School (from 1963 to 1965).[4] In 1965, Rezun graduated from said school and was admitted without examinations to the second year of the Kyiv Higher Combined Arms Command School then named after General [Mikhail Frunze](/source/Mikhail_Frunze) (now [Odesa Military Academy](/source/Odesa_Military_Academy)).

## Prague Spring invasion

Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a burning Soviet tank in Prague, August 1968.

In 1968, Suvorov graduated with honours from the Frunze Red Banner Higher Military Command School in Kyiv. At the same year, he served in [Chernivtsi](/source/Chernivtsi) as a tank platoon commander with the 145th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, [66th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division](/source/22nd_Mechanised_Brigade_(Ukraine)), of the [Carpathian Military District](/source/Carpathian_Military_District) in Ukraine, participating in the [Warsaw Pact](/source/Warsaw_Pact) invasion of [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia), [Operation Danube](/source/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia). This experience is narrated in his 1981 book *The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army*.

The book was Suvorov's first after his defection and in it he narrates his eyewitness account of the invasion, recounting the daily life within the [Soviet Army](/source/Soviet_Army). He points to deficiencies in readiness and in mindset.[5] Suvorov mentions that [middle-ranking officers](/source/Junior_commissioned_officer) struggled to impress their superiors, something that does not contribute to military effectiveness or [discipline](/source/Discipline) – instead fostering on officers a behavior of cunning and [deceit](/source/Deception) in order to climb the ranks.

At the age of 19 he was admitted to the [Communist Party of the Soviet Union](/source/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union) (CPSU). From 1970 to 1971 he was an [officer in the intelligence](/source/Intelligence_officer) department of the [headquarters](/source/Headquarters) of the [Volga Military District](/source/Volga_Military_District) (in the city of [Kuibyshev](/source/Samara)), and later with the 808th Independent Army [Reconnaissance](/source/Reconnaissance) Company (*[Spetsnaz](/source/Special_Forces_of_the_Main_Directorate_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces)*). In 1970 he became a member of the nomenclature ([nomenklatura](/source/Nomenklatura)) of the [Central Committee of the CPSU](/source/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union). In this position he came under the [patronage](/source/Patronage) of the commander of the Carpathian Military District, Lieutenant General of Tank Forces (later [General of the Army](/source/Army_General_(Soviet_rank))) [Gennady Obaturov](/source/Gennady_Obaturov). This general was known for suppressing anti-communist uprisings in [Hungary](/source/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956) in 1956 and later Czechoslovakia in 1968 with ruthless efficiency, for which Obaturov received the [Order of the Red Banner](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Banner).

## Espionage in Geneva and defection

### Geneva station

From 1971 to 1974, Suvorov studied at the Military Diplomatic Academy,[6] known as "the Conservatory", located in Moscow. The Academy trained officers for work abroad as intelligence operatives or "scouts" (*razvedchiki* in the Russian language). These worked often "under diplomatic cover" ("jackets", in the jargon of Soviet intelligence operatives), and also as "illegals", meaning intelligence operatives not under diplomatic cover or (quasi-declared) commercial cover.

For four years, Suvorov worked in the Geneva [GRU](/source/GRU_(Soviet_Union)) as an employee of the legal residency of military intelligence under the cover of the Permanent Mission of the USSR at the European [United Nations Office at Geneva](/source/United_Nations_Office_at_Geneva). According to the autobiographical book *[Aquarium](/source/Aquarium_(Suvorov))*, he received the rank of major while working in residency. The same title was named in an interview of 1992 with the newspaper *[Krasnaya Zvezda](/source/Krasnaya_Zvezda)* by then head of the GRU, Colonel general Yevgeny Timokhin.

### Defection

On 10 June 1978 he disappeared from his Geneva apartment with his wife and two children. According to Suvorov himself, he made contact with [British intelligence](/source/Secret_Intelligence_Service) because the Geneva station wanted to make him a "scapegoat" of a major failure. On 28 June 1978 British newspapers[*[which?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words)*] reported that Rezun was in England with his family. At the time, he was married to Tatiana Korzh. The couple had a son, Aleksandr, and a daughter, Oksana. They were smuggled out of Switzerland to Britain by British intelligence. There Suvorov worked as an [intelligence](/source/Intelligence_(information_gathering)) analyst for the government and as a lecturer.[4][7]

Since 1981, he has been writing under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov, having written his first three books in English: *The Liberators*, *Inside the Soviet Army*, and *Inside Soviet Military Intelligence*. The author explains the choice of pseudonym by the fact that his publisher recommended that he choose a Russian surname of three syllables, evoking a slight "military" association among Western readers. According to Viktor himself, he teaches [tactics](/source/Military_tactics) and [military history](/source/Military_history) at a British military academy and lives in [Bristol](/source/Bristol). He supports [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine) in the [Russo-Ukrainian war](/source/Russo-Ukrainian_war).[8]

## Publications

### Non-fiction

Suvorov drew on his experience and research to write non-fiction books in Russian about the Soviet Army, [military intelligence](/source/GRU_(Soviet_Union)), and [special forces](/source/Spetsnaz). He publishes these works under the pseudonym "Viktor Suvorov."

- *[The Liberators](/source/The_Liberators_(Suvorov_book))*,[9] includes his eyewitness account about the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet forces

- *[Inside the Soviet Army](/source/Inside_the_Soviet_Army_(Suvorov))*,[10]

- *Inside Soviet Military Intelligence*[11]

- *[Aquarium](/source/Aquarium_(Suvorov))*,[12] his memoir, and

- *Spetsnaz*,[13] about Special Forces units

### Novels

Suvorov also wrote several fiction books set in the pre-World War II era in the Soviet Union.

- *Control*

- *Choice*

- *Snake-eater* (2010)

### Movies

Suvorov was in participant the movie [The Soviet Story](/source/The_Soviet_Story) (2008).

## Works about World War II

Main article: [Soviet offensive plans controversy](/source/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy)

Suvorov has written ten books about the outbreak of the Nazi-Soviet War in 1941 and the circumstances related to it. The first such work was *[Icebreaker](/source/Icebreaker_(Suvorov))* (1989), followed by *[M Day](/source/M-Day_(book))*, *The Last Republic*, *Cleansing*, *[Suicide](/source/Suicide_(Viktor_Suvorov_book))*, *The Shadow of Victory*, *I Take it Back*, *The Last Republic II*, *The Chief Culprit*, and *Defeat*.

In the *Icebreaker*, *M Day* and several follow-up books Suvorov argued that [Stalin](/source/Stalin) planned to use [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany) as a proxy (the “Icebreaker”) against the West. For this reason, Stalin provided significant material and political support to [Adolf Hitler](/source/Adolf_Hitler), while at the same time preparing the [Red Army](/source/Red_Army) to "liberate" the whole of Europe from Nazi occupation. Suvorov argued that Hitler had lost [World War II](/source/World_War_II) from the time when he attacked Poland: not only was he going to war with the powerful [Allies](/source/Allies_of_World_War_II), but it was only a matter of time before the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) would seize the opportune moment to attack him from the rear. According to Suvorov, Hitler decided to direct a preemptive strike at the Soviet Union, while Stalin's forces were redeploying from a defensive to an offensive posture in June 1941. Although Hitler had an important initial tactical advantage, that was strategically hopeless because he subjected the Nazis to having to fight on two fronts. At the end of the war, Stalin achieved only some of his initial objectives by establishing Communist regimes in [Eastern Europe](/source/Eastern_Europe), China and [North Korea](/source/North_Korea). According to Suvorov, this made Stalin the primary winner of World War II, even though he was not satisfied by the outcome, having intended to establish Soviet domination over the whole continent of Europe.

Most historians agreed that the geopolitical differences between the Soviet Union and the Axis made war inevitable, and that Stalin had made extensive preparations for war and exploited the military conflict in Europe to his advantage. However, there was [a debate among historians](/source/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy) as to whether Joseph Stalin planned to attack Axis forces in Eastern Europe in the summer of 1941. A number of historians, such as [Gabriel Gorodetsky](/source/Gabriel_Gorodetsky) and [David Glantz](/source/David_Glantz) disputed or rejected this claim.[14][15][16][17][18][19] But it received some support from others, such as [Valeri Danilov](/source/Valeri_Danilov), [Joachim Hoffmann](/source/Joachim_Hoffmann), [Mikhail Meltyukhov](/source/Mikhail_Meltyukhov), and [Vladimir Nevezhin](/source/Vladimir_Nevezhin).

## Other works

### About the Cold War-era Soviet Union

- *[The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army](/source/The_Liberators_(Suvorov_book))*, 1981, Hamish Hamilton, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-10675-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-10675-3)

- *[Inside the Soviet Army](/source/Inside_the_Soviet_Army_(Suvorov)),* 1982, Macmillan Publishing.

- *[Inside Soviet Military Intelligence](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov8/)*, 1984, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-02-615510-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-615510-9)

- *[Aquarium](/source/Aquarium_(Suvorov))* (Аквариум), 1985, Hamish Hamilton, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-11545-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-11545-0), memoir

- *[Spetsnaz](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/). The Story Behind the Soviet SAS*, 1987, Hamish Hamilton, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-11961-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-11961-8)

- *Devil's Mother* (Майката на дявола), 2011, Sofia, Fakel Express, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-954-9772-76-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-954-9772-76-0)

### About the outbreak of the Nazi-Soviet War

- *[Icebreaker](/source/Icebreaker_(Suvorov))* (Ледокол) (1980s), Hamish Hamilton Ltd, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-12622-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-12622-3)

- *[Day "M"](/source/Day_%22M%22_(Suvorov))* (День "М")

- *Suicide*. For what reason did Hitler attack the Soviet Union? (Самоубийство), Moscow, ACT, 2000, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [5-17-003119-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-17-003119-X)

- *[The Last Republic](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov3/)*, ACT, 1997, [ASIN](/source/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number) [B00271256C](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00271256C)

- *[Cleansing](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov4/index.html)* (Очищение). Purification. Why did Stalin behead his army?, Moscow, 2002, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [5-17-009254-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-17-009254-7)

- *Last Republic II*. Why did the Soviet Union lose the Second World War? (Последната република II), Sofia, Fakel Express, 2007, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-954-9772-51-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-954-9772-51-7)

- [The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II](https://archive.org/details/TheChiefCulpritStalinsGrandDesignToStartWorldWarIi-ViktorSuvorov)*.*. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008 (hardcover, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59114-838-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59114-838-8)).

- *Defeat*. Why was the "great victory" worse than any defeat? (Разгромът), Sofia, Fakel Express, 2009, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-954-9772-68-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-954-9772-68-5)

### About Soviet historical figures

- *[Shadow of Victory](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov7/index.html)* (Тень победы), 2003. This questions the status and image of General [Georgy Zhukov](/source/Georgy_Zhukov), known for his defense of the Soviet Union and later victory in the [Battle of Berlin](/source/Battle_of_Berlin). The first book of a trilogy under the same name.

- *[I Take It Back](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov11/index.html)* (Беру свои слова обратно), is also about Georgy Zhukov. this is the second book of the "Shadow of Victory" trilogy.

### Fiction

- *Control* (Контроль), novel

- *Choice* (Выбор), novel

- *Snake-eater* (Змееед), novel (Sofia, Fakel Express, 2010), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-954977269-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-954977269-2)

## See also

- [Causes of World War II](/source/Causes_of_World_War_II)

- [List of Eastern Bloc defectors](/source/List_of_Eastern_Bloc_defectors)

- [Soviet offensive plans controversy](/source/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy)

- [Soviet–German relations before 1941](/source/Soviet%E2%80%93German_relations_before_1941)

## References

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Harding, Luke (29 December 2018). ["'Will they forgive me? No': ex-Soviet spy Viktor Suvorov speaks out"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/29/ex-soviet-spy-viktor-suvorov). *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)*. Retrieved 15 June 2021.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:5_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:5_3-1) Putintsyeva, Alla (1 September 2006). ["Виктор Суворов: "За идеи в России сейчас не убивают" (Viktor Suvorov: "People don't kill for ideas in Russia now")"](http://www.newizv.ru/news/2006-09-01/53116/). *Novye Izvestia* (in Russian). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070610125823/http://www.newizv.ru/news/2006-09-01/53116/) from the original on 10 June 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2021.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-suvorovrezun_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-suvorovrezun_4-1) ["Виктор Суворов, Биография"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130627164424/http://suvorovrezun.com/biography.html). Internet Archive.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Varhall, Gregory; Kenneth M., Currie (1983). ["An Insider's Warning to the West"](https://books.google.com/books?id=lpo_ZclRfhIC&q=Reviews+of+Suvorov+The+Liberators+%281981%29&pg=RA5-PA102). *Air University Review*. **35**. [US Department of the Air Force](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Air_Force): 101–107.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Разведчик – предателю](http://aravidze.narod.ru/s8/bezr3335.htm) [From scout to the traitor]. *aravidze.narod.ru* (in Russian). Retrieved 15 June 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Sir Dick Franks: Saboteur with the Special Operations Executive who went on to become Chief of MI6 during the Cold War"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3227310/Sir-Dick-Franks.html). *[Daily Telegraph](/source/Daily_Telegraph)* (obituary). 20 October 2008.{{[cite news](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service)) See also: [Dick Franks](/source/Dick_Franks).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Виктор Суворов: Война против Украины — предсмертные судороги тоталитарной империи"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140811162630/http://rufabula.com/news/2014/08/09/suvorov/). Archived from [the original](http://rufabula.com/news/2014/08/09/suvorov/) on 11 August 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** *[The Liberators](/source/The_Liberators_(Suvorov_book))*, 1981, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-10675-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-10675-3)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** *[Inside the Soviet Army](/source/Inside_the_Soviet_Army_(Suvorov)),* 1982, Macmillan Publishing Co.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** *[Inside Soviet Military Intelligence](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov8/index.html)*, 1984, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-02-615510-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-615510-9)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** *[Aquarium](/source/Aquarium_(Suvorov))* (Аквариум), 1985, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-11545-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-11545-0)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** *[Spetsnaz](http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/index.html). The Story Behind the Soviet SAS*, 1987, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-241-11961-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-241-11961-8)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-:2_14-0)** *Pavlova IV Search for the truth about the eve of World War II. // Pravda Viktor Suvorov. Yauza, 2006 352 pp. ISBN 5-87849-214-8*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-:3_15-0)** *[Alexander Hill]. A companion to international history 1900-2001. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. Chapter 20 Stalin and the West*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-:1_16-0)** *Gabriel Gorodetsky . "The Icebreaker Myth": On the Eve of the War - M .: Progress-Academy, 1995. - 352 p*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-:4_17-0)** *Colonel David M. Glantz . Fact and Fancy: The Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 // Peter B. Lane, Ronald E. Marcello . Warriors and scholars: a modern war reader. University of North Texas Press (English) Russian, 2005*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-:0_18-0)** Müller, Rolf-Dieter (2009). *Hitler's war in the east, 1941-1945 : a critical assessment*. Berghahn. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-84545-501-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84545-501-9). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [836636715](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/836636715).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** Stahel, David (2009). *Operation Barbarossa and Germany's defeat in the East*. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 11. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-107-32130-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-32130-4). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [836870454](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/836870454).

## External links

- [Official website (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20101021213618/http://suvorovrezun.com/)

- [Official website](http://suvorov.com/)

- [Online books of Viktor Suvorov (mostly in Russian)](http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/)

- [Viktor Suvorov](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1138297/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb)

- [Appearances by Viktor Suvorov](https://www.c-span.org/person/?victorsuvorov) on [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)

- [Works by or about Viktor Suvorov](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Suvorov%2C%20Viktor%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Viktor%20Suvorov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Suvorov%2C%20Viktor%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Viktor%20Suvorov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Suvorov%2C%20V%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Viktor%20Suvorov%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Suvorov%2C%20Viktor%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Viktor%20Suvorov%22%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29) at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)

- (in English) [*Who Started World War II? – Stalin as a Chief Culprit*.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSy80WlmWY)

- - Viktor Suvorov's presentation at the [U.S. Naval Academy](/source/U.S._Naval_Academy), Eurasia Forum, in Annapolis, Maryland (October 7, 2009).

- (in English) ["The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II."](http://www.c-span.org/video/?283856-1/book-discussion-chief-culprit)

- - Viktor Suvorov speaks at the [Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars](/source/Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars) in Washington, D.C. via [C-SPAN2](/source/C-SPAN) (February 2009).

- (in Russian) [Selection of online books](http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/) by Viktor Suvorov and links to related online publications at the [Maxim Moshkov's Library](http://www.lib.ru/)

- (in Russian) [Complete up-to-date collection](http://militera.lib.ru/research/index.html#s) of Suvorov's online books (some in English), at [Militera Project](http://militera.lib.ru/)

- (in Russian) [Viktor Suvorov, *Ledokol*](http://plgalaxy.co.uk/suvorov/), audio book

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