The most explosive international event in January this year was the Iranian general
Soleimani
Assassinated. It was a rare beheading between non-belligerents, tensions between the United States and Iran rose to a high point, and war was on the verge of breaking out.
Beheadings during war are actually very common, and eliminating the top leaders of the other side has always been one of the top priorities of the intelligence services. In World War II, assassination programs against enemy heads were estimated to be worthy of feature-length TELEVISION dramas.
It is precisely for this reason that all countries have spared no effort in defending their heads of state. If the leaders were only in the heavily guarded mansion or headquarters, security would be fine. But the leaders must show up frequently, attend important meetings, give speeches, visit hospitals and factories, and other places to boost the morale of the population.
During world war II, unlike now, it was enough for the leaders to send a tweet, they wanted to go to the masses and get close to the masses, which brought great difficulties to the security work. There is a view in an American movie that as long as the assassin does not die, there will always be a way to get close to the target.
And assassins in war are often elite agents, most professionally trained, and don't even care about their own lives. Therefore, the best way to prevent being assassinated is to replace the head with a stand-in, even if the other party succeeds in assassination, it will not cause real harm.
Many heads of state in World War II had one
scapegoat
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a lot of official information was disclosed to make us aware
Stalin
There was more than one stand-in, and some of them lived until after the dissolution.
Stalin's stand-in was called
Gazawat
Since childhood, he has loved singing and dancing, and has a talent for acting. After the outbreak of World War II, he became a young literary soldier in the Red Army. In 1943, Gazawat was hospitalized with an injury, inadvertently attracting the attention of the KGB because he looked like Stalin and was the right person to play as a stand-in.
Chief of the KGB
Beria
Gazawat was personally censored, convinced that he was capable of playing Stalin, and Gazawat disappeared as a man. Of course, instead of being shot, but changing his identity, the original Gazawat has been "sacrificed" and replaced
Felix Dadaev
。
For Dadayev, he has to play an old man in his sixties, and it may not be difficult to play for minutes, tens of minutes, but if necessary, he will play for hours, even a day. This difficulty is very high, and there can be no mistakes during the period.
It is good to face the ordinary masses, but it is not easy to deceive the leaders who are familiar with Stalin. In case of being punctured by others, the KGB will be held accountable. What will happen to a useless stand-in makes people shudder when you think about it.
After a period of training, as well as transfiguration and fattening, Dadayev was finally able to imitate Stalin to a level where his speech, posture, and various expressions had reached a level where he could be confused. Beria brought him before Stalin and asked the leader to see for himself his stand-in.
Stalin observed for only a few minutes before agreeing. To be honest, people with great power generally don't like their own stand-ins, what if someone wants to use a stand-in to replace themselves? This kind of plot is not unique to movies, and the stand-in will make people involuntarily think of things like puppets.
Dadayev began to replace Stalin at less important public events, waving to the masses like a leader and accepting the cheers of the masses. The members of the Central Committee standing next to him did not know that he was just a stand-in, and the WORK of the KGB was not in vain.
While Dadayev enjoyed all this, he was often afraid that there were no German killers in the crowd, right? One of the main uses of stand-ins is to act as cannon fodder and attract killer bullets. In addition to these public activities, it is the most dangerous situation to fake the leader's itinerary.
Stalin went to participate
Yalta Conference
At that time, with Dadayev taking two separate routes, the real Stalin was protected by a higher level. If any German spies really wanted to assassinate, they were more likely to find and intercept them, most likely Dadayev.
Historically, once a target embarks on a journey, it is the best time to assassinate. Qin Shi Huang traveled with thousands of soldiers and horses to protect himself, but Zhang Liang still found the opportunity to attack, and Bo Lang struck a blow. If it were not for Qin Shi Huang changing his car, Chinese history would definitely be rewritten.
In a sense, Dadayev was the one who had been hammered by Zhang Liang, and his mission was to attract the attention of German spies. As long as Stalin is safe, even if Dadayev dies, it will be a victory for the KGB, and this is the real value of the stand-in.
According to more declassified information, Stalin's stand-in was not only Dadaev. Compared with them, the special actors who play the leader in the film are much freer in all aspects. The stand-ins are too similar and have been exposed to a lot of insiders, but they like to keep a low profile and try not to let people know about this experience.