3 years ago on this day Igor Yurievich Shkurin, also known as Igor Grek, died. Igor Shkurin was a graduate of the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR and served as a military investigator. In retirement he became interested in revising history using his experience in professional forensics. During more than 10 years of independent historical research, Igor not only discovered new, previously untouched topics, but also laid the foundations for entire areas of research.
Igor Shkurin's Logistic theory of civilisation considers history not from the point of view of kings and conquerors, but from the point of view of the logistics of commodity flows, and makes it possible to model the spread of civilisation along communication routes. This theory has influenced many
contemporary independent and
academic researchers.
Igor was the first modern Russian researcher to hypothesise that the so-called Patriotic War of 1812 may have been an
alliance between the armies of Alexander I and Napoleon to conquer the Moscow-Smolensk Highlands. Later these ideas were presented and developed by
popular video bloggers.
Also worth highlighting is Igor Shkurin's idea about
what kind of ‘witches’ the Inquisition was actually after. He discovered that descriptions of witches being tortured by burning, needle-piercing, drowning, and so on are remarkably consistent with the instructions in the assayer's handbook for determining the assay of precious metals.
It is worth noting that Igor also often turned to the topic of cosmonautics history. His professional experience as a military investigator led him to the conclusion that not only the US space programme was initially falsified, but also the USSR space programme. At the same time, he published materials on the US programme openly on his website, while most of the materials on the USSR programme he published only for friends in his livejournal. Shortly before his death, Igor planned to write and publish a book on the history of space exploration in an exclusive and limited edition with a ‘Secret’ stamp, but he did not manage to realise this project, only partially publishing the materials of the book in livejournal with limited access for friends only. Once taken oath to the now defunct Soviet homeland restricted the impartial researcher from openly publishing his numerous materials on this topic. In any case,
his opinion, compiled on the basis of many years of forensic analysis of available materials, he did not hide and reported openly:
‘‘Developing the psychological effect of the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957, the USSR took the path of fake manned flights and portrayed ‘primacy in the exploration of near-Earth space’, the USA at first pushed like children ‘and so did we’, and then outdid the USSR by portraying fake ‘flights to the Moon’. Having lied to their nations and the whole world, the leaders of the USSR and the USA came to the conclusion about undesirability of mutual disclosures and fixed the lie in the fake joint project ‘Soyuz-Apollo’ of 1975. Real manned flights in the USSR began in 1967 on Soyuz spacecraft, and in the USA in 1981 on Space Shuttles.’’
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