Sergei Kourdakov

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sergei Nicholaevich Kourdakov was a former KGB agent and naval officer who from his late teen years carried out more than 150 raids in underground Christian communities in regions of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. At the age of twenty, he defected to Canada while a naval officer on a Soviet trawler in the Pacific and converted to Evangelical Christianity. He is known for having written The Persecutor (also known as Forgive Me, Natasha), an autobiography that was written shortly before his death in 1973 and published posthumously. Since its publication, it has been the source of varied criticism. Sergei Kourdakov was born on March 1, 1951 in Novosibirsk Oblast, Soviet Union. His father Nikolai Ivanovitch Kourdakov was a soldier in the Soviet Army and a political activist who was a very loyal supporter of Stalin. He led a brigade in the Winter War and led a unit under General Rokossovsky in World War II. After the war, Nikolai helped set up a military base and became the base chief.