Полковник-аферист: Как мошенник 10 лет обманывал советское государство и спецслужбы / ЧТИВО

More history on the CHTIVO Telegram channel: https://t.me/chtvmag and on the website https://chtv.ru/ The most delicious issue of CHTIVO: https://ozon.ru/t/a5iFXJN Nikolai Pavlenko was an underground Soviet millionaire who managed to deceive the state for more than ten years. He created fictitious military units, posed as a colonel, and at the same time built very real facilities: airfields, hospitals, roads, and bridges. How did a deserter create a fake military unit at the height of the Great Patriotic War? Why did local authorities hold him up as an example to other managers? And what ultimately exposed the Soviet Union’s most famous con artist? Contents: 00:00 What this episode is about 00:35 Early scams and work with the NKVD 02:02 The outbreak of the Great Patriotic War 03:05 Registration of a military construction works section 04:17 How Pavlenko’s fictitious organization operated 05:11 Fake documents and the black market 06:22 Trophies in Poland and Germany 07:31 Demobilization of the unit and awards for the fraudsters 08:27 The Plandorstroy artel in Tver 09:12 Move to Lviv and a new military unit 10:47 The fake headquarters in Chisinau 11:22 How Pavlenko’s scam was uncovered 12:13 Arrest of Pavlenko and 200 subordinates 12:52 The scale of Nikolai Pavlenko’s fraud For advertising inquiries: [email protected] Follow CHTIVO: YouTube:    / @chtivomag   Telegram: https://t.me/chtvmag VK: https://vk.com/chtivomag Dzen: https://dzen.ru/chtivomag Rutube: https://rutube.ru/channel/42773594/ CHTIVO Podcast: https://music.yandex.ru/album/33674942 CHTIVO website: https://chtv.ru/ CHTIVO job openings: https://chtivoyoutube.ru/