Information from Tommy Østerlund book

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I read a book in the early 1990 by Danish writer Tommy Østerlund, he was in Minsk with a Russian filmmaker in 1989-1991 and intervieved all of LHO and Marinas friends and family in Minsk also the books tells us who his friends are, one is the son of Lydia Merishinski, one of the foremost nuclear researchers in the soviet union at that time, she is with Khrusthiof when he makes his famous speech in the U.N.

I have been reading on different forums and it seems that nobody knows of this book/film, made in the early 1990, one of the most interesting things in the book are where they talk to the KGB and the KGB officers have LHO papers in front of them and say thar Yuri Nosenko never had seen his papers.

This is the translation I got:

40 , September 18, 2009 at 18 h 00 min.
 uzhas-sovka published interesting material about the personal life of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President Kennedy's official. It turns out he was married to a girl from the Soviet Union, a light and behavior. Perhaps in family life is to seek the motives of one of the most notorious crimes of the past century.

 uzhas-sovkaof ancient archives (part 1), 
Marina N. Oswald Porter (Prusakov) was born July 17, 1941 in Molotovske (Severodvinsk) Arkhangelsk region. The father is unknown, allegedly worked for the NKVD-MVD in the construction of Severodvinsk. Grew Marina in Leningrad, the son of her stepfather. Marina barely graduated seven classes, then enrolled to study at the pharmaceutical school. Her mother was constantly ill for a long time was in the hospital, died when Marina was not yet 16 years old. Since that time, Marina finally got the freedom to live as she wants, the stepfather was not able in any way to control it. her best friend was a neighbor Irene, works part-time prostitution among bohemians Leningrad - doctors, lawyers, musicians, and then there were foreigners. Irina willingly took with him to parties Marina. Marina was the first time in the HPC in seventeen years. According to Marina, she lost her virginity due to rape an Afghan in a room luxury hotel in Leningrad (with the obligatory "duty" on the floor) during a "double date" arranged by Irene. Around the same time in her life, there was a certain Eddie Dzhuganyan from Georgia, twice as old Marina, who worked at the studio. In general, the marina was a typical girl semi-proletarian origin, extending to the environment of the Soviet intelligentsia, with indispensable fashion romantic verses of poets in a notebook and a mandatory indiscriminate campaigns to bed in reality to enter "into an interesting society." The purpose of life - to marry a Jew or a foreigner was the only attractive option not only for the Marina, it was the only way to access the "posh life" for a beautiful and free in the behavior of Russian girls. The alternative - nominees to the elite of the army, the Komsomol and party work were too rough and unattractive lifestyle, entertainment barracks character. However, in 1959, as a result of the scandal over the arrest of Marina in a hotel room with another romantic acquaintances, she had to abandon hopes of a successful marriage in Leningrad and urgently, in 24 hours, to go to Minsk to his uncle. Uncle Marina, Elijah, at the Time Interior Ministry colonel was married again to a girl much younger than him, stolen during the war in western Germany. The children they were not, they lived in a luxury apartment at the time in the center of Minsk, in a house built by German prisoners. (Marina's uncle, his wife and Oswald) Marina got a job working in a pharmacy in the United third hospital in Minsk and immediately got into the circle of the Minsk golden youth, mostly medical students, who have always been fashionable foreign plates, their summer homes, cars, high-ranking parents, general, girls and, of course, the volunteers, the KGB informants, particularly Paul Golovachyov, a close friend of Oswald and Marina. in March 1961, the mother of a mutual friend of Marina, Yuri Merezhinskogo, performed in the Palace of Trade Unions with a lecture about the U.S. after a trip to the governmental delegation headed by Khrushchev. At a lecture led Oswald, who worked at the time at the Minsk Radio Works "Horizon" in the shop under Alexander Seeger, a Polish Jew, who had just returned to the USSR after a long stay in Argentina.Circle Seeger was one of the favorite places for parties Minsk golden youth. Oswald was by then thoroughly prodinamlen his girlfriend, Ella German Jew, in which Oswald was hopelessly in love. It was known also that Oswald had enough acquainted with the realities of life in the USSR and was going to take steps to return to the United States. After the lecture about America began dancing. Oswald presented the Marina, which was spectacular, "on the show," red dress. Oswald, of course, was unknown to the reputation of Marina Oswald and a month later he proposed to her. From the diary of Oswald "I decided that I should finally fuck her. Dynamite She kept me, so that on 15 April, I made ​​the offer. She agreed." In the wedding night, Marina, using his knowledge of medicine and pharmacology, Oswald convinced that it was her first man, and thus saved him from falling in love with Ella Herman, tied firmly to 

And the Google translate name of Yuri : Yuriya Merezhinskogo

Correct English form or Yuri's name will be Yuri Merezhinskiy.

There are lot of cases of words in Russian (and Latvian too), and the end of word changes a lot depending from the case.

There are 7 forms in Russian for nouns:
- Nominative case - Yuri Merezhinskiy
- Accusative case - Yuriya Merezhinskogo
- Dative case - Yuriyu Merezhinskomu
- Genitive case - Yuriya Merezhinskogo
- Ablative case - Yuriyem Merezhinskim
- Locative case - Yuriye Merezhinskom
- Vocative case - Yuri Merezhinskiy!

To find information in English about him, the nominative form should be used.

The same for Russian - correct nominative case will be Юрий Мережинский (however, it seems to me it is quite common Russian name and lot of wrong (non-appliciable for us) records will be found.

Marina was the first time in the HPC in seventeen years.

HPC here is ment to be `Centre of Veneric and Skin Deseases` (if looking how КВД can be interpretated in Russian).

It seems that another source (see post by B.A. Copeland in Education Forum) generally complies with info from Russian LiveJournal entry:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20140

Howevere, I must object to one thing in the post mentioned: MVD was not a secret police, it was (and still is) just a Ministry of Interior.

Did MVD ever have any role similar to FBI or Department of Justice within the framework of Ministry of Interior?

Can you list the main tasks undertaken by the ministry for us?

I think that would be helpful in laying to rest the 50 years of books telling us it was similar to the FBI - and I believe you are correct, by the way.

Traditionally, MVD is institution supervising work of law enforcement (police) in everyday providing of `law & order`. Some other services, for example, firefighters, also were under system of MVD. While main function of KGB is to maintain security of government, both from outside sources (counter-intelligence) and inside sources (ideological departments of KGB, counter-terrorist units etc.).

Both MVD and KGB investigated criminal offenses, just like police and FBI in USA, however, there are some differences between USSR and USA systems, including:
- for example, serial killers, which in USA could be issue, handled to FBI, in USSR was never competence of KGB. However, in some cases KGB experts could help police in status of consultants (including technical resources of surveilance and phone taps, which KGB always had more and better ones than ordinary police).
- Unlike the FBI, KGB has such functions as political intelligence, counter-intelligence in military, lately - counter-terrorism team (`Alpha`) and saboutage team (`Vympel`). 
- KGB clearly more than MVD could be called `secret police`, since KGB officers mostly weared plain-clothes, and, while fighting dissidents of Soviet regime, could widely use provocations as modus-operandi. For example, infiltrate the such dissident group, and than offer help to get marked paper of typewriter for copying of anti-Soviet literature, thus following the net of the dissident cell.
- KGB did past and family check for personal, deemed to get security clearence.
- KGB also performed border and coast guard of USSR, guard of nuclear weapons, bodyguarding duties for high-ranked CP of USSR officials.
- KGB was not called `ministry`, but chairman of KGB was in the same level as ministers of Soviet Government - and thus KGB was completely independent from MVD.

However, until 1946 there was only one institution, providing both functions of MVD and KGB, and it was called NKVD. In 1946 NKVD was divided in MVD (traditional police) and MGB (predecessor of KGB). In 1954, modern KGB was formed.

So, if the uncle of Marina in 1960 still was active colonel of MVD, that makes him as serviceman of police, not KGB. However, it does not mean he could not work on KGB functions before 1946.

on the Ed forum there is a discussion about some new info that Nosenko was a fake defector.
Tommy does mention it and it is also in the Movie made by Oleg Bielssav and Tommy Østerlund that Nosenko never had his hand on Oswalds file, a Ukrainian KGB General of some sort told the filmmaker while he had the whole Oswald file on a table in front of them, this same KGB officer also says this is not the work of one man ( the shooting ).