This incident caused great panic at that time, and a large number of scientists dared not step out of their homes. Many Russian experts even rushed back to the motherland overnight, which greatly affected the plans of American rebel scientists.
So, what did Groshenko do behind the assassination of eight bodyguards, and why did it lead to death?
In the 1940s, Groshenko was born into a wealthy family in Kaliningrad, the Soviet Union. Because Kaliningrad is a "transit station" on the military defense line, the city has always been shrouded in a strong military atmosphere.
Most locals are proud to be soldiers, and Groshenko's parents are also military experts. Influenced by his parents and environment, when many peers want to be officers, he is only interested in military industry and machinery manufacturing.
Driven by curiosity, he would disassemble, assemble and study everything around him at an early age. His parents don't blame him for the broken things at home. On the contrary, they think he is very talented.
Seeing that he has a strong practical ability and studies well, his parents decided to train him well and let him serve the country in the future. When he was still in primary school, his father would often take him to visit the arsenal in the city and tell him some simple and understandable knowledge.
When he entered middle school, his parents began to help him find some parts and gave him the opportunity to assemble them by himself. Under such careful cultivation, his talent was fully developed. At the age of eighteen, he was admitted to St. Petersburg University.
In that era when he was knowledgeable until high school, he was lucky to go to college without any scruples.
In addition, he chose his best and favorite mechanical major, which will go smoothly for a long time to come. However, sometimes it is not necessarily a good thing to go too smoothly.
At that time, during the Cold War, the arms competition was fierce. As one of the important military aircraft development institutions, Su Huoyi Aircraft Experimental Design Bureau is naturally eager for talents and is unwilling to let go of any outstanding scientific research talents.
Groshenko's ambition coincides with the demand of the Design Bureau, so he stepped into the military manufacturing industry as planned and began to realize his dream of scientific research.
In the design bureau, he is mainly responsible for the design and manufacture of fighters and some weapons. This work is extremely important and difficult. As a newcomer who has just left campus, it is often difficult to make achievements in a short time.
But with his talent and hard work, he has made unimaginable achievements in just a few years, which surprised many predecessors of the design bureau. The resources of the country began to tilt in his favor, and his rights, status and treatment were greatly improved.
Seeing that his achievements have been recognized and his abilities have been valued by the top management, Groshenko's patriotism and enthusiasm for scientific research are growing, and he hopes that he can make greater contributions to the country.
However, when the Soviet Union made great efforts to develop weapons, problems followed. Because of the huge expenditure on weapons research and development, scientific research data cannot be leaked and income cannot be generated. After a long time, the economy will make ends meet.
As soon as the economy went wrong, people began to panic and chaos in China. The funds allocated by the top management to Sukhoi Design Bureau became less and less, and some advanced weapons research was gradually overtaken by the United States. Everyone began to look for a way out of food and clothing, and some researchers began to consider turning to the United States.
When everyone was restless, Groshenko was completely unaffected and still immersed in the world of scientific research. He doesn't want to leave, so whenever he sees people around him leave, he will try his best to discourage them from doing anything that betrays the country.
He has a good family and takes up a lot of scientific research resources. It is normal that he doesn't want to leave. Given the same conditions, they won't leave.
What about the pillar of strength? Not everyone can stick to their beliefs in the face of reality, so there are still a large number of top scientists and ace pilots bending over for the "five meals". Seeing that talents could not stop, the Soviet government decided to keep Groshenko anyway.
At this time, he is already a national treasure military expert. Any country that gets him will bring immeasurable threat to the enemy, so the government should give him the best treatment even if he is short of money.
As a result, when everyone is worried about their livelihood and food and clothing, the favored one who has a smooth journey is still living an ideal life.
I don't know that rice, oil and salt are expensive, and I don't know that it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. He still can't understand what the temptation of America means.
According to relevant data, nearly 80% of the more than 1000 wandering scientists scattered all over Europe after World War II were accepted by the United States. More than 60% of the scientific and technological elites expelled by the German-Austrian government went to the United States.
With the help of many talents, the United States has developed rapidly in various fields, and thus has become a new technological hegemon. With the strength of one country, it occupies half of the world's natural science fields. After tasting the sweetness, they began to dig around.
The target of choice is usually talents in places with unstable situation and economic depression, such as the Soviet Union at this time. Under the temptation of American high salary, many Soviet scientists turned against each other.
However, in ten years, thousands of people defected from the Soviet Union to the United States. In order to show sincerity and strive for better treatment, some people also brought some documents that cannot be leaked.
In order to turn against Groshenko, the United States made a special plan and sent six groups of people in succession, but none of them succeeded, and some of them were arrested by this stubborn Frankenstein.
It's not hard to understand. After all, for a scientist, as long as he can ensure his food and clothing and scientific research resources, he can live for his ideal.
Therefore, for a long time, Groshenko sneered at the United States, and his loyalty once made the United States feel extremely headache. If it weren't for what happened later, I'm afraid no one could let this man who only has scientific research leave.
Just as he was preoccupied with reviving the country by studying weapons, the Soviet Union, which was deeply mired in internal and external troubles, was already teetering.
19911February, Gorbachev resigned, the Soviet Union, which was founded 69 years ago, officially disintegrated, and the Russian era came. In fact, with Groshenko's ability, his position will not change in the Soviet Union or Russia.
However, scientists depend on the state for survival. Although he turned a deaf ear to things outside the window, the treatment he once enjoyed consumed the national strength of the Soviet Union to some extent. So when the Soviet Union can't support it, he will immediately fall from the clouds and fall into the "mortal world".
Russia, a hundred things to be done, economic depression and social unrest. Many people have begun to take risks to survive. It is difficult for the government to guarantee even the most basic law and order, let alone allocate funds for science and technology.
The prestigious Sukhoi Design Bureau has also suffered a huge impact. If it hadn't been for the high-level decision and the cooperation of many airlines, it would have been abandoned long ago.
Although Groshenko's position has not changed, his income is not as good as before. I devoted myself to scientific research since I was a child, and then I realized the "troubles" of ordinary people.
He never worried about daily necessities, but now he has to count on three meals a day. Seeing that the life of his wife and children became more and more difficult, he finally developed a fear of survival.
When life is rich, he only has country and ideals in his heart. He despised his defected colleagues and looked down on the high salary paid by the United States. But when the ideal bubble was punctured and the concealed reality was revealed, he wavered.
He began to think involuntarily in the dead of night, what would life be like if he went to America?
People sent by the United States to lurk around Groshenko have found out his living conditions and know that this man who has never suffered will not last long. The reason why he has been sitting tight is to wait for an opportunity, when he has complained enough.
1993 One evening, Groshenko packed up her information and got off work as usual. On his way home, he wanted to go to his favorite restaurant for dinner, but when he went in and saw the menu, he remembered that there was not enough money. The little money in his bag is also to buy dinner for the whole family.
Looking at the restaurant, some people are still eating gracefully, others are talking and laughing. I am a top scientist, but I can't afford a meal here. It never occurred to him that one day he could not even eat such an "ordinary" meal.
After coming out of the restaurant, he was lost in thought and didn't see anyone coming towards him. It was not until the other party stopped in front of him that he vaguely felt that this was not an ordinary person. The other person's aura made him think it was a robbery, so he stopped and dared not act rashly.
Maybe he felt his nervousness. The strange man smiled kindly first, and then asked him politely if he could find a place to talk.
As soon as the man made a noise, his heart was at a bottom. This behavior is exactly the same as those Americans who came to him before, and you can guess without asking. According to his previous temper, he either turned around and left, or picked up the phone and called the police.
But this time, he followed people with a strange tie. It was not until he was sitting in the bar that he suddenly realized what he was doing. He used to drink this glass of wine in his hand, but he hasn't drunk it for a long time recently.
He began to talk to the person in front of him. The man told him that if he went to America, he would be provided with an annual salary of $500,000 and a villa in a prime location in Hawaii. More importantly, he will have the most advanced studio and huge research funds.
You'll have everything if you change places. For Groshenko, who has nothing, it's not just a question of eating. He knows very well how important he is to Russia and what he means to a country.
He also hesitated whether to kill himself or to honor or disgrace the country. But he was superior since he was a child, and he really couldn't tolerate that his life was worse than the people on the street, so he chose selfishness between selfishness and selflessness.
After making up his mind, he is most worried about his own safety. His country will not spare a man who defected to the enemy country with a lot of weapons information. Although Russia is temporarily trapped, it does not mean that it will watch him betray and be indifferent.
His worry was written on his face, and the opposite person understood it at a glance, so he immediately promised that he would arrange bodyguards for him and escort him away. After arriving in the United States, someone will protect him 24 hours a day.
Groshenko's last hesitation disappeared. Only a month later, he boarded a plane to the United States under careful arrangement and became a "hero" of the United States.
The United States kept its word and did not treat him badly. He lives in the most luxurious villa with a high salary and is escorted by eight bodyguards every day. I don't know how many times this life is better than in Russia, but he is walking on thin ice.
At work, he can also devote himself to scientific research, but when he comes out of the laboratory, he can't help but be afraid. Looking at the bodyguard around him, he knew very well that it was because he was still useful. Once they stop protecting him, he will not be able to move.
He not only did his best to do research, but also handed in all the information about the fighters he had studied before. From this step on, he really changed from a scientist to a real traitor.
For the next six years, he did not dare to let his guard down for a moment. Just when he thought that no one would pursue it again, the ending that belonged to him was already on the way.
1999 On this day, he got on the bus to pick him up as usual. On the way, the car suddenly exploded, but because the car was special, the explosion did not cause any casualties.
Bodyguards immediately guarded behind Groshenko warily, but what happened next made them helpless.
A large group of motorcyclists came from all directions at a great speed. As soon as they reached the attack range, they fired without giving people a chance to deal with it. When they left, Groshenko had fallen in a pool of blood and lost his vital signs.
This incident once alarmed the American scientific community, and many Russian scientists were scared to quit their jobs and even dared not go out. Some researchers who contacted the United States also gave up the idea of mutiny.
At that time, the United States also asked Russia about this case, but in the end it was dropped.
What is the truth and who is the murderer is no longer so important. The important thing is that once you choose to betray, you will definitely pay the price.
Researchers are also soldiers of a country, and their existence may be far more important than they think.