The Assassin
Viktor Ivanovich Ilyin (Russian: Виктор Иванович Ильин) was born in Leningrad in 1948. After his graduation from a technical college, he was inducted into the Soviet Army in 1968 at the rank of lieutenant. Ilyin was said to have been resentful of his forced conscription and deeply distressed by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
On 21 January 1969, Ilyin stole two standard-issue Makarov handguns and deserted his army unit. He went back to his family in Leningrad where he stole his brother-in-law's authentic police uniform. Ilyin then left on an unannounced, solitary journey to Moscow.
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