What is the secret of Dyatlov Pass?
The whole point of the mystery of Dyatlov Pass is that modern researchers are mostly educated and logically minded people. We cannot explain the actions and reasoning of illiterate party apparatchiks, who are far from logic and common sense. Do not forget that at the end of the 50s of the last century, the same supporters of the Stalinist system of government, the former illiterate peasants, were in power. They were faced with the task of retaining power at any cost.
Advanced, free-thinking and rebellious students posed a danger to them. The state relied on a system of surveillance and informers. But after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, with the exposure of the cult of personality and excesses, the policy of mass repression was abolished. Rather, it was driven under the rug, and instead of direct executions and official trials, the objectionable were hidden in psychiatric hospitals, or they received an injection with an umbrella, or died in a fight, from a fleeting unexpected illness, went missing or froze on a hike.
Because of false denunciations, it was sometimes necessary to eliminate the innocent, but the wood is being cut down, chips are flying, it was considered better to pre-empt the situation than to make a mistake, for which the responsible special services were severely punished. Criminal mistakes were corrected by secrecy, obfuscation, forgery and intimidation of the population. This was the case, for example, with the Novocherkassk shooting of rebellious workers who were dissatisfied with the increase in food prices and at the same time the reduction in labor prices.
The public, despite thousands of witnesses to the event, learned about this tragedy only in the 90s during perestroika and glasnost, the same happened with the events in Timertau, Shymkent and other rebellious cities. Dyatlov Pass can be placed in the same row. The best of the best students were eliminated during the 21st congress of the CPSU on a campaign so that they could not escape to the west (as stated in the denunciations from the words of YU), exposing the socialist system to world shame.
The group was liquidated on a false denunciation, the head of the regional committee (according to the characteristics of those who knew him – bonecrusher, bulldozer type) fulfilled the resolution of the Central Committee "On combating the attacks of anti-Soviet elements" - literally, radically and for his loyalty and courage - was promoted, moved to the Kremlin.