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March 17, 1908

Born Boris PolevoyAuthor of "The Story of a Real Man" and the "Nuremberg Diaries".

I was immediately struck by the ordinariness and even, I would say, decorum of the defendants' appearance. Nothing terrible or repulsive—gentlemen of different ages sat in two rows, some listening, some politely talking to their neighbors.

Real surname - KampovHe only signed her first book, "Memoirs of a Lousy Man." At the time, the Tver worker correspondent, a technologist at the Proletarka textile factory, was 19. He chose "Polevoy" on the advice of his editor, who pointed out that the root of his surname sounded similar to the Latin "campus," meaning "field."

In 1928, he finally changed careers and became a journalist. He gained fame in 1939 with his novella "The Hot Shop," about the labor exploits of the Soviet people. That same year, he was drafted into military service to cover the Winter War. He suffered a shell-shock. He returned to duty in 1941 and became a war correspondent for Pravda.

Ribbentrop explained in detail to the Tribunal the absolute necessity of attacking the Soviet Union. He returned to the old fable of the "Red Peril." However, he carefully stipulated that the Foreign Ministry and he, Ribbentrop, as its head, had no information about the USSR's intention to attack Germany.

In 1945, he covered the Nuremberg Trials. Based on what he saw and heard over the course of 19 days, he wrote "The Story of a Real Man" and was urgently recalled to Moscow to prepare the book for publication.

A pilot without legs is like a bird without wings, which can live and peck, but never fly.

The story of the legless pilot's heroic deed Maresyeva earned the author the Stalin Prize. By 1954, the book's circulation had reached 2,34 million copies.

He followed the party line. In 1955, in the United States, when asked about the writer executed in the Jewish Anti-Corruption Committee case, Kvitko replied that he was alive and well. In 1958, he was involved in the persecution of the Nobel laureate. Pasternak: "Get out of our country, Mr. Pasternak. We don't want to breathe the same air as you.".

He was the editor-in-chief of Yunost for 20 years. During his tenure, The Dawns Here Are Quiet was published. Vasilyeva and "Babi Yar" Kuznetsova.

Died in 1981.