1. Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov, is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects.
Viktor Suvorov writes in Russian with a number of his books translated into English, including his semi-autobiographical The Liberators.
In Icebreaker, M Day and several follow-up books Viktor Suvorov argued that Joseph Stalin planned to use Nazi Germany as a proxy against the West.
Viktor Suvorov wrote a number of fiction books about the Soviet Army, military intelligence and the pre-war history of the USSR.
Viktor Suvorov, born Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, comes from a military family of mixed Ukrainian-Russian descent; his father, Bogdan Vasilyevich Rezun, was a veteran of WWII and a Ukrainian, while his mother Vera Spiridonovna Rezun is Russian.
Viktor Suvorov was born in the village of Barabash, Primorsky Krai; raised in Ukraine's Cherkasy, where his father served.
In 1968, Viktor Suvorov graduated with honours from the Frunze Red Banner Higher Military Command School in Kyiv.
From 1971 to 1974, Viktor Suvorov studied at the Military Diplomatic Academy, known as "the Conservatory", located in Moscow.
For four years, Viktor Suvorov worked in the Geneva GRU as an employee of the legal residency of military intelligence under the cover of the Permanent Mission of the USSR at the European United Nations Office at Geneva.
Since 1981, he has been writing under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov, having written his first three books in English: The Liberators, Inside the Soviet Army, and Inside Soviet Military Intelligence.
Viktor Suvorov drew on his experience and research to write non-fiction books in Russian about the Soviet Army, military intelligence, and special forces.
Viktor Suvorov wrote several fiction books set in the pre-World War II era in the Soviet Union.
Viktor Suvorov was in participant the movie The Soviet Story.
Viktor Suvorov has written ten books about the outbreak of the Nazi-Soviet War in 1941 and the circumstances related to it.
Viktor Suvorov argued that Hitler had lost World War II from the time when he attacked Poland: not only was he going to war with the powerful Allies, but it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union would seize the opportune moment to attack him from the rear.