During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union fought wits and courage in an all-round way, and you came and went, and fierce contests were launched in various fields, each with victory and defeat, and the people or things that happened during the period were quite eye-catching.
In addition to the more familiar overt nuclear weapons competition, space hegemony and other competitive actions, in fact, in many unknown fronts, it is also full of thrills.
The most typical is that during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the espionage war between the two countries was very fierce, and the competition between the two countries at that time was not only for national strength, but also related to institutional advantages and national faces.
Therefore, if one side has defectors who defect to the other side, then the opponent can take the opportunity to publicize it, advocate the superiority of the other side, and make the opponent become disgraced.
This happened in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet defector to the United States was himself a sensitive KGB agent.
The defecting Soviet spy intelligence officer was named Yurchenko. This person joined the KGB very early, has a calm personality, is experienced, has strong ability, and is the backbone of the KGB.
During his time in the KGB, Yurchenko made a lot of merit, so he was given an important position as the first deputy director of the KGB General Directorate.
During the Cold War, the spies practitioners between the United States and the Soviet Union also dug into each other's walls, and Yurchenko also received olive branches from the United States many times, but he resisted the sugar-coated shells of Europe and the United States and did not move.
However, it was such a loyal warrior, so excellent, so reassuring to the people, so reassuring to the motherland, but in the end he chose to defect to the United States, which surprised people.
In 1985, the Soviet side sent a delegation to Italy, and because many foreign visitors were stranded abroad and unwilling to return home, the Soviet authorities sent Yurchenko to monitor these people.
What the Soviets did not expect was that the people under surveillance did not defect, and as a result, the people who went to monitor others defected themselves.
While visiting the Vatican Museums, Yurchenko plunged headlong into Western intelligence agencies and demanded political asylum.
The defection of the important spy leader of the Soviet Union was an important matter, and the United States immediately sent planes to transport Yurchenko to the United States to prevent the Soviet side from assassinating Yurchenko.
Exactly why Yurchenko defected, no one can say. But there is no doubt that this incident caused the Soviets to lose a lot of face, and the United States used this matter to exaggerate the superiority of the West and deny the Soviet Union.
At the same time, Yurchenko himself also had a lot of secrets, and under his account, many spies and agents arranged by the Soviet Union in the West were arrested. In view of this, the United States was also very satisfied, rewarded Yurchenko, and protected him.
However, to the surprise of the Americans, they gave Yurchenko a big house, gave him a lot of money, let him eat and drink spicy, but the man defected again, this time choosing to defect from the United States back to the Soviet Union. This left Americans scratching their heads and making sense of it.
In November 1985, three months after Yurchenko defected to the United States, one day he shrugged off the American personnel who were spying on him and once again entered the Soviet embassy in the United States, claiming that he had been kidnapped by the Americans to the United States and strongly demanded that he return to the Soviet Union.
Eventually, with the help of the Soviets, Yurchenko returned to the Soviet Union again.
The Soviets were not stupid, and they were well aware of Yurchenko's defection, but for the Soviet Union, Yurchenko's defection and defection back undoubtedly showed the superiority of the Soviet Union, and there was a lot to be said for it.
After receiving Yurchenko, the Soviets immediately held a press conference for him, asking him to tell the public about how he was kidnapped by the United States, how he was tortured, and then attacked the United States, denouncing the crimes of the United States.
Yurchenko's defection was so mysterious that to this day, no one knows why he chose to defect to the United States, let alone why he defected from the United States back to the Soviet Union. It seems that there are still many cats in this that are not known.