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A sailor artist lawyer and writer fluent in many languages Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the world wars. He was a dashing man whose Modus Operandi was the seduction of women - among them a French embassy employee the wife of a British official and a disfigured Gestapo officer. He stole military secrets from Nazi Germany Fascist Italy and enabled Stalin to look into the diplomatic pouches of many European countries. Idealistically committed to the Motherland he showed extraordinary courage and physical prowess - twice crossing the Sahara Desert and the jungles of the Congo. But in 1938 at the height of Stalins purges Bystrolyotov was arrested and tortured. Sentenced to twenty years of hard labour in the Gulag he risked more
severe punishment by documenting the regimes crimes against humanity. With amazing stamina he survived the repression and came to realise the true nature of the ideology he once served unquestioningly.
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A sailor artist lawyer & writer fluent in many languages Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the world wars. He was a dashing man whose Modus Operandi was the seduction of women
- among them a French embassy employee the wife of a British official & a disfigured Gestapo officer. He stole military secrets from Nazi Germany Fascist Italy & enabled Stalin to look into the diplomatic pouches of many European countries. Idealistically committed to the Motherland he showed extraordinary courage & physical prowess
- twice crossing the Sahara Desert & the jungles of the Congo. But in 1938 at the height of Stalins purges Bystrolyotov was arrested & tortured. Sentenced to twenty years of hard labour in the Gulag he risked more severe punishment by documenting the regimes crimes against humanity. With amazing stamina he survived the repression & came to realise the true nature of the ideology he once served unquestioningly.

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