Trotsky and Stalin were personal enemies of a life and death. Both hated each other, and reconciliation between them could not be. However, after 1929, when Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union and lived in Turkey, then Norway, then in France, since 1937 - in Mexico, the real power he had a little bit. At convened IV International Congress of them was only twenty of his supporters. On the other hand, the Trotskyites, to organize and more serious actions. For example, during the civil war in Spain, local Trotskyites - POUMovtsy - together with the anarchists rebelled on Republican territory, which could result in tragedy - they were actually opened the front, and the Republicans were forced to withdraw the division from forward positions to suppress the rebellion.

In June 1985, the Soviet press under the heading "In the USSR State Security Committee," it was reported that the 13 June 1985 in Moscow, spied for the shares with the goods detained by the Second Secretary, Embassy of United States Paul Stombauh that for wrongful acts declared persona non grata and expelled from the Soviet Union. Later, it was reported that the KGB agent exposed and arrested by U.S. Intelligence AG Tolkachev, an employee of one of the Moscow Research Institute of ...

The history of the Berlin tunnel, which received the Anglo-American names Operation Stopwatch, " Gold "(" Gold ") became one of the most notorious intelligence operations of the cold war. By 1997, there were already 18 documented studies, the novel and film on the tunnel. Nevertheless, controversial history and the inconclusive results of the operation continue to agitate the minds.