바실리 바실리에비치 코비젠코(Василий Васильевич Ковыженко, Vasily Vasilievich Kovyzhenko, 1915 ~ ? )는 소련군 영관급 장교이다. 1945년 해방 직후 평양의 소련군정에 참여하였다.

북한 소련 군정 관련 증언

One winter day late in 1945 or early 1946, V. Kovyzhenko, an officer in the Soviet 25th Army stationed in Korea, had a chat with a fellow Soviet officer, Captain Kim Il-sung. Kim Il-sung was upset. He had recently been told that he would become the head of the local administration. Kim Il-sung told Kovyzhenko: “I want [to command] a regiment and then _ maybe a division. What is this for? I don’t understand anything and don’t want to do this.”

Kovyzhenko, then the head of the 7th political administration department of the 25th Army, often met Kim Il-sung, and told this story to the present author in Moscow in August 1991. Whether it is true, I know not, but at least it sounds plausible. The tragedy of Kim Il-sung’s life is the tragedy of a person who became an absolute ruler almost against his own will, and who was finally crushed by this immense power.

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Recorded by V. Kovyzhenko