A brief autobiography of Peter Kogoy

The reader is offered a brief autobiography of Peter Kogoy — a Slovenian member of the partisan movement in Yugoslavia during World War II, a Communist who emigrated to the USSR in 1948, after the Information Bureau adopted a resolution on Yugoslavia. He spent most of his long life in Moscow. He studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University, then worked for many years as an employee of the Slovenian section of the Moscow radio, until its liquidation in 1994 and his retirement. The Autobiography of P. Kogoy, written by himself in the 1990s, is a sincereand emotional eyewitness account of the struggle of the Yugoslav partisans, about the life of a Slovenian emigrant in Russia during the second half of the twentieth century and his perception of the events. It also contains interesting materials about Russian-Slovenian relations of this period. P. Kogoy gave his autobiography to I. V. Churkina, doctor of history, the Russian premier expert on the history of Slovenia, at that time also the Chairman of Triglav, the Russian-Slovenian society of friends of Slovenia. It is located in her personal archive. I. V. Churkina translated the text into Russian, wrote comments and introductory remarks.