About the book: 1942 / Author of the brochure Miletiy Zykov - Soviet journalist, then one of the leading figures in the collaborationist Russian Liberation Army, propagandist, editor of the German occupation newspaper "Zarya" “Immediately after the surrender and the first interrogations, Zykov, bypassing the prisoner of war camps, was taken to Berlin, to the Psychological Laboratory of the Wehrmacht Propaganda Department. He enjoyed authority among the German command, which he impressed with his economic knowledge; in particular, he compiled from memory, without using sources, this analytical brochure, published under the pseudonym “Nikolai Moskvich”. In 1944, on the eve of the planned propaganda campaign “Scorpio-Ost”, which was supposed to take place on the Eastern Front near Lvov, Zykov was abducted in Berlin along with his adjutant and translator and went missing. It was assumed that the Gestapo was behind the kidnapping, and it was preceded by internal struggles in the ranks of the German curators of Russian-language propaganda. Most likely, Zykov was killed immediately or shortly after the abduction, although there is unreliable information that he was interrogated back in October 1944.