About the book: 2013 / This book is dedicated to the name of the Soviet military counterintelligence officer, an employee of the legendary SMERSH, Major General Nikolai Grigorievich Kravchenko, who took an active part in the protection of " Big Three" and operations to neutralize a group of Nazi terrorist agents who were planning an assassination attempt on the leaders of the USSR, USA and Great Britain. The physical destruction by the Nazis of the top officials of the three powers I. Stalin, F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill was being prepared in Iran from November 28 to December 1 1943 during the international Tehran Conference. The brilliantly organized operation of the Soviet state security agencies together with the allied intelligence services to neutralize the terrorist action of the Nazis made such a strong impression on US President F. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill that they correctly expressed a desire to see the man , who saved their lives. Surprised by the low military rank of one of the immediate leaders of this operation, Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Grigorievich Kravchenko, they considered it their duty to ask Stalin to give him the rank of general. Stalin fulfilled their request... With his death and after N.S. came to power. Khrushchev began the process of so-called de-Stalinization. Now people who worked under Stalin and were marked by him fell under the crusher of new repressions. The tragic fate of Major General N.G. Kravchenko also found itself in the millstones of the so-called “thaw”. and many thousands of employees of state security agencies, who brilliantly proved themselves during the war years on the secret front in the fight against the special services of Nazi Germany. The life and work of a patriot and defender of the Motherland, the defamation of his cause in the late 1950s will be discussed in this story. The book is designed for a wide range of readers.