KGB replacement says it accepts veteran history specialist's demise as a "individual misfortune"
Resigned Russian knowledge official Lev Sotskov has been found dead at his Moscow loft, specialists said on Wednesday. Police say that underlying data recommends the 90-year old resigned major-general utilized a gun he'd got as a gift from Mongolian partners to end it all.
Sotskov's body was found by his significant other around early afternoon on Wednesday, inside the restroom of their loft in southwestern Moscow, Russian media revealed, refering to police sources. He had a shot injury to his head.
"As indicated by starting data, the reason for death was self destruction," police told the media. Close to Sotskov was a Tokarev TT-30 self-loader gun, alongside a note making sense of where it came from.
"The gun is a remnant of the fights on the Khalkhin-Gol River. I got it when I was an agent to the Mongolian mystery administration, on the event of the 500th commemoration of Ulan-Bator, in 1989. - L. Sotskov."
The veteran had various serious ailments and had over and over let his family members know that he was "burnt out on living," paper Kommersant announced.
Brought into the world in Leningrad in 1932, Sotskov joined the KGB in 1959, spending over 40 years in unfamiliar and focal knowledge of the Soviet Union and afterward Russia. The KGB's First Chief Directorate was prevailed by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in 1991.
"Tragically, a significant general and commendable veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Service, has died," said Sergey Ivanov, top of the SVR press office, portraying Sotskov's demise as a "individual misfortune" for the help.
After retirement, Sotskov devoted himself to history, going through the SVR files to compose a few books about the knowledge administration's work. He got an exceptional SVR prize in 2006, for his book 'Activity Tarantula,' enumerating Soviet knowledge exercises focusing on British legislators and spies somewhere in the range of 1930 and 1945.
Sotskov had additionally distributed reports showing that the June 1941 intrusion of the USSR by Nazi Germany was not so surprising as true chronicles of the time had kept up with.
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