False award

David Greenglass died in the USA - a key witness at the trigger of the Rosenbergs. He died back in July, but the family did not inform anyone. The New York Times found out about this by pure chance last week and published a prostrate necrologist . Greenglass was his brother Ethel Rosenberg. All of them-Julius, Ethel, David and his wife Ruth-grew up in the Lower East-Side, the densely populated area of the manhattan island, where the native language of adults was Yiddish, and every fifth did not know how to read or write.

Julius organized a cell of the League of Young Communists in College. Following his sister and her fiancé entered the American Komsomol and David. As a person in love with mechanics, he liked the harmonious logic of the theory of Marx - Lenin, its inexorable laws. During military service, he wrote to his wife: "I love you with all the love of Marx and the humanism of Lenin." He informed her that he had read a lot of books about the Soviet Union and was convinced: "Whenever the Soviet government uses force, it does it with pain in the heart and with the conviction that it has the good of a much larger number of people." Ruth replied that she dreams of the day when they together begin to build the future in socialist America.

In the summer of 1943, Julius Rosenberg came to the Soviet Consulate General and offered his services there as an intelligence agent. At first, he performed secondary tasks - the curators considered that he was not suitable for serious espionage work. But when David was transferred to Los Alamos, where they made an atomic bomb, the situation changed.

Politics is changing. People and their beliefs are changing. Yesterday's allies become opponents. What was considered valor yesterday is considered a betrayal today. But the betrayal committed by Greenglases will never become valor

In December 1944, Moscow agreed to the recruitment of Greenglasses. They were assigned pseudonyms "bumblebee" and "wasp". The recruitment was surprisingly smooth. David believed that America should share atomic secrets with the USSR. When the FBI agents came to the Greengglass, who did not have orders in the hands of either a search or arrest, he seemed even delighted. He allowed the agents to search the apartment and, of his own free will, went to the station with them. When the liaison of the liaison of him recognized him, Greenglass began to give confessions. They were critical of the investigation, because the investigation did not have real evidence. It was especially difficult to scrape the material at Ethel Rosenberg. In the end, Ruth Greenglass testified against her. She stated that it was Ethel that reprinted the most important report of David on the typewriter. David confirmed her testimony.

After 43 years, he said that he did not remember how it was - maybe Ruth was printed, or maybe they are both. For a reprint of several pages, Ethel Rosenberg went to an electric chair. According to Greenglass, his sister acted stupidly: she could survive if she had drowned her husband, who would still not be able to make excuses. Ruth Greenglass has never been involved in trial.

David Greenglass was sentenced to 15 years in prison, of which he left nine and a half. The couple changed their last name and led a secluded lifestyle. In 1996, they were found by the New York Times journalist Sam Roberts. Greenglass agreed to meet him, provided that he would receive his share of the fee for the book. “I don’t want to go into the grave, looking at how innocent martyrs are made of these people,” he said about his sister and son -in -law. “They made more for world communism more than their espionage.” Ruth died in 1980. Greenglass survived his age in the nursing home. He survived almost all the actors of this story, including the judge and the prosecutor.

This plot could become the plot of an exciting Hollywood film. But he never became. Politics is changing. People and their beliefs are changing. Yesterday's allies become opponents. What was considered valor yesterday is considered a betrayal today. But the betrayal, committed by Greenglass, will never become valor. Therefore, David Greenglass will never be an American hero.

Vladimir Abarinov - Washington Observer Radio Liberty

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