Even Stalin Got It: What’s Wrong with the “Kudrytsky Affair”?

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Amid morning missile and drone strikes on the energy sector, thoughts turn to the searches and criminal case against former Ukrenergo head Volodymyr Kudrytskyi.

Kudrytsky is a highly skilled specialist with extensive connections in the energy sector, currently involved in a large-scale international energy project. I fail to understand why his expertise and network shouldn’t be leveraged now.

Kudrytsky himself highlights the absurdity of being prosecuted for “deforestation,” while people online joke about him carrying an axe. Yet even if our State Intelligence Service were independent and fair (and society knows very well what kind of agency it is), this is no reason to disperse valuable experts.

And there are many such examples.

After the October Uprising, the Soviet authorities recruited “specialists” to work in state institutions—skilled professionals who had been educated before 1917 but whose expertise was urgently needed by the state.

Stalin released several specialists from prison during World War II to work for the defense industry—people like Korolev and Landau. And these were not only scientists, but also managers and military personnel.

Meanwhile, in the United States, Los Alamos and other scientific centers paid enormous sums to attract experts to develop new weapons—remember Oppenheimer?

Here, the authorities still fail to recognize the crisis in key areas, persecuting specialists and ignoring their expertise—like Volodymyr Kudrytsky in the energy sector or General Zabrodsky in the army. It’s a real shame.

We will remind, the former executive director of NPC Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, became a subject of an investigation conducted by the State Bureau of Investigation. Investigators are checking his involvement in abuse of office and misappropriation of state company funds. According to sources, the check concerns a possible artificial increase in the volume of deforestation and overestimation of the cost of work during the construction of energy highways.

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