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00:00:00The outstretched body of the driver,
00:00:02"Help!"
00:00:06is all he could
00:00:08utter before convulsing in his death throes.
00:00:11No one could have imagined that this was
00:00:15the beginning of a series of brutal crimes.
00:00:18A mysterious and sinister case would go down in the history
00:00:21of criminology. Only a few knew the whole
00:00:25truth about it. My heroes
00:00:27today.
00:00:30Mikhail Kaminsky, Deputy Prosecutor of Minsk.
00:00:33Colleagues value him for his intuition and determination.
00:00:37Vladimir Kolotov, prosecutor's investigator. Behind his back, he is
00:00:41called a bloodhound. He will track down a criminal from under
00:00:45the earth.
00:00:52One day in December 1982, an emergency
00:00:55call was received by the Minsk ambulance service. The call came from a building.
00:02:00They couldn't help the man. A few hours later, Kucherov
00:02:04died in terrible
00:02:05agony.
00:02:09A forensic examination was ordered into the mysterious
00:02:11death. Its results surprised even
00:02:15experienced doctors. Thallium salts were found in the body of the young
00:02:18man. A rare
00:02:22and incredibly toxic
00:02:24substance.
00:02:27Thallium affects the nervous system, skin, and
00:02:31kidneys - a very dangerous substance. Recovery can
00:02:35take several months.
00:02:39How did this rare poison get into the young man's body?
00:02:43This isn't rat poison. Thallium cannot
00:02:46be bought in a store. The method of murder resembled
00:02:49the plot of Shakespearean tragedies, but it wasn't the
00:02:53Middle Ages. It was the beginning of the eighties, the 20th
00:02:56century.
00:03:01In 1982, Leonid
00:03:04Brezhnev died. Yuri
00:03:07Andropov came to power. Now everything would be different in the country.
00:03:11The further development of friendship
00:03:14and cooperation among the peoples of the Soviet Union largely
00:03:17depends on the deepening of socialist
00:03:21democracy. Great Britain declares war on
00:03:24Argentina. The whole world will learn about the conflict
00:03:28over the Falkland Islands.
00:03:31And on the other side of the world, Iraq's war with Iran rages,
00:03:35with both sides using chemical
00:03:36weapons.
00:03:41The mysterious poisoning case was entrusted to experienced
00:03:44investigators, among whom was Vladimir
00:03:47Kolotov.
00:03:49That period of time was relatively prosperous in terms of
00:03:53the overall crime situation in the republic, including
00:03:56in Minsk. Therefore, any extraordinary events...
00:04:30Long before his death, her husband began complaining of a metallic taste in
00:04:33his mouth. It appeared after drinking a bottle
00:04:37of champagne with his colleague Igor
00:04:39Labanov. He also had similar
00:04:42symptoms. His wife advised her husband and his
00:04:45friend to see a therapist. The therapist, after examining
00:04:48the men, diagnosed them with avitaminosis. And
00:04:52gave the surprised patients
00:04:54ascorbic acid. Our doctors simply didn't believe
00:04:58them, that guys.
00:05:43was left in that theater, we found
00:05:46it,
00:05:49indeed, the poison was in the bottle, but how did it get
00:05:53there?
00:05:56Vladimir Kolotov was almost certain that the poisoned
00:06:00potion was a defect from the local champagne
00:06:02winery.
00:06:04Probably, they didn't keep an eye on it, and the deadly
00:06:08substance got into the batch of drinks.
00:06:42Children were confident in what they bought in
00:06:45stores.
00:06:49Deficit. I've almost forgotten that word.
00:06:53But it seems like it was only recently that I stood in line for
00:06:56cervelat, chickens and toilet paper,
00:07:00and I stood in several lines at once. Then
00:07:03I ran home happy. In my hands were bags with chicken
00:07:07feet sticking out and sticks of sausage. Over my shoulder -
00:07:10a bundle of toilet paper rolls. A funny
00:07:13sight, although the quality of the deficit
00:07:17sometimes left much to be desired, but for food to be
00:07:20poisoned, that was unimaginable
00:07:23in Soviet
00:07:24times.
00:07:31Mikhail Kaminsky sent inquiries to the regions and
00:07:34the capital. After some time, the
00:07:37answers came. No complaints were
00:07:40received, and no other cases of poisoning
00:07:43in other regions due to the consumption of these alcoholic
00:07:46beverages were recorded.
00:07:49The director of the factory swore that dangerous
00:07:52poisons, especially thallium salts, were not used in
00:07:56the production of wine at the enterprise.
00:07:59This means that the theory of a defect at the enterprise
00:08:03was false. But how did the substance get into the bottle?
00:08:06The investigation could not answer this question.
00:08:10Poison in champagne, that is, how?
00:08:12Champagne
00:08:16passions behind the scenes, decorations
00:08:19sometimes fall, a victim
00:08:22or a poisoner,
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00:13:55Vladimir Kolotov was working on the connections of the deceased Kucherov,
00:13:59looking for those who might have wished him dead. It turned out that the man had
00:14:02started working at the drama theater just a month before his
00:14:06death. Before that, he had worked at another theater, the opera and
00:14:09ballet.
00:14:12Mikhail Kaminsky instructed to find out if there had been any
00:14:15suspicious events recently at Kucherov's previous
00:14:18workplace. Suddenly,
00:14:21one of the leading actresses of the theater remembered.
00:14:26Some time ago, a bottle of champagne appeared on her dressing
00:14:29table. From whom, it was unknown.
00:14:33The woman put the wine in the shared locker. A few
00:14:36days later, the champagne
00:14:37disappeared.
00:14:43This was a lead. Perhaps the poison
00:14:46was in that very bottle. The poison
00:14:49was not intended for Kucherov at all, but for the leading
00:14:52actress of the theater. Circle.
00:15:29Lyubov Rudenko knows about this firsthand. Her
00:15:33childhood was spent backstage. Her parents were famous
00:15:36actors, and the actress knows the price of fame and success in
00:15:40the theater well. An actor coming to the theater always
00:15:43comes to someone else's place. Nails are driven in from the back
00:15:47side, almost with the point inwards into
00:15:50the heel, or they sprinkle some horrors
00:15:53there. Falling on the stage was
00:15:56guaranteed. Some actresses had their
00:15:59dresses and props deliberately ruined.
00:16:02Truly horrific things happened.
00:16:05Decorations sometimes fall.
00:16:38Kolotov decided to thoroughly inspect the dressing room. In the actress's
00:16:42table, he found a note. Its content was
00:16:45unambiguous.
00:16:50You will be mine, you have always been mine.
00:16:54Understand, only I can make you happy in this
00:16:57life. Do not resist, otherwise you will
00:17:00bitterly regret it.
00:17:03The message was threatening, but who wrote it?
00:17:07Kolotov took handwriting samples from theater employees and
00:17:10sent them to handwriting experts. However,
00:17:13the experts just threw up their hands. The note was written by
00:17:16someone else, an outsider. The key to the puzzle
00:17:20was found in the
00:17:22message itself.
00:17:28They say beauty demands sacrifices. In Soviet times,
00:17:31it demanded them twice as much. The choice
00:17:34of cosmetics in stores was meager, so one had to be resourceful.
00:18:05My friend got the recipe. with glitter. In the evening, buy
00:18:09Christmas decorations. As they say,
00:18:13curtain.
00:18:16On the note from the unknown person, experts found traces of
00:18:19painting pencil and particles of powder.
00:18:23Could it be that the love letter was written by
00:18:26a woman? The case was getting more
00:18:28complicated.
00:18:31At this very moment, one of the theater workers, makeup artist Natalya
00:18:35Kurch, turned to Vladimir Kolotov.
00:19:39The man had clearly just woken up, wearing
00:19:42only underwear.
00:19:46The next moment, Ponomarev rushed down the
00:19:49stairs. The suspect ran head over
00:19:52heels. Here's the first floor. The man ran out into
00:19:55the street, but Ponomarev didn't get
00:19:58far.
00:20:02It's minus 15 outside. The half-naked fugitive somehow
00:20:05forgot about that.
00:20:09At the very first interrogation, Ponomarev stated that he knew
00:20:12nothing and wanted to know nothing. However, Vladimir
00:20:15Kolotov had a great desire to get to the
00:20:19truth. He had already found out that the detainee had been previously
00:20:22convicted twice.
00:20:25Ponomarev Viktor, 25 years old,
00:20:28unmarried, works as a mechanic in an bus depot, previously convicted of
00:20:32hooliganism and attempted
00:20:33rape.
00:20:37but Ponomaryov was pressured, he was told that a person had died, the charge
00:20:41would be serious, possibly even
00:20:43execution. After a moment of thought, Viktor
00:20:47confessed that he indeed had a passion for one
00:20:51actress, but she did not reciprocate, despite
00:20:54generous gifts. The last time he gave her a note
00:20:58with champagne through his sister. He wanted
00:21:01to find out if he had a chance, but to
00:21:04poison someone,
00:21:05never.
00:21:10Later, much later, acquaintances from the special services revealed to me
00:21:14a terrible secret. It turns out that thallium is a favorite
00:21:17means for political assassinations.
00:21:51No, there was clearly something wrong with
00:21:55this whole story.
00:22:05It turned out that at the deceased Kucherov's previous workplace,
00:22:08poisonings had already occurred.
00:22:12This happened six months ago. Two workers from the opera and ballet theater
00:22:16drank ordinary lemonade.
00:22:20And a few days later, their hair began
00:22:23to fall out.
00:22:27They were treated in a very original way. They explained that they
00:22:30consumed a fairly large amount
00:22:34of alcohol. Experts took samples from
00:22:38the victims. Again, that same rare
00:22:41poison. The lives of the unfortunate, strangely enough,
00:22:44were saved by self-medication.
00:22:47Alcohol partially removed thallium from the body.
00:22:53The victims of the failed assassination attempt said that their colleague,
00:22:56handyman Vladimir Mezinov, had given them the bottle
00:22:59of lemonade, but he insisted that he had
00:23:03killed no one and that the poisoned drink had come to him completely
00:23:07by chance.
00:23:10He found a bottle left by someone,
00:23:13a small bottle of 0.33
00:23:16of such lemonade.
00:23:19But... for some reason, he didn't drink it himself, but
00:23:23no one could confirm these words. The Deputy Prosecutor of Minsk
00:23:27gave an order to search Mezintsev's
00:23:30apartment. When Vladimir Kolotov arrived at
00:23:33the suspect's dwelling, he practically threw up his hands. The
00:23:37apartment was in complete disarray. It was immediately clear
00:23:40that Mezintsev was a bachelor.
00:23:44It seemed that in such a mess, nothing would be found, but
00:23:47suddenly a surprised voice was heard.
00:23:58Under the sink lay a small plastic bag, in it some white substance. Could it be
00:24:01that very poison? Doubts
00:24:05quickly dissipated when they found a torn label. It was
00:24:08just rat
00:24:10poison.
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00:29:12Perhaps Mezinov is not a suspect, but
00:29:15a victim. It became obvious to us
00:29:19that someone was
00:29:21trying to poison
00:29:23Mezinov
00:29:27with lemonade and champagne.
00:29:31But who could hate
00:29:33an ordinary theater worker so fiercely and
00:29:37regularly give him poisoned
00:29:39drinks?
00:29:47Mezinov went through all his acquaintances, and even
00:29:50close ones, in his mind and shook his head. No,
00:29:53he had no enemies. And then he suddenly remembered.
00:29:57Some time ago, he had a big fight with his
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