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"There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies."
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Filipp GolikovI admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him — Filipp Golikov
"I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him."
I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
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Filipp Ivanovich Golikov was a Soviet military commander. As chief of the GRU, he is best known for failing to take seriously the abundant intelligence about Nazi Germany's plans for an invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, either because he did not believe them or because Joseph Stalin did not want to hear them. He served in subsequent campaigns and was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the
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Filipp Ivanovich Golikov was a Soviet military commander. As chief of the GRU, he is best known for failing to take seriously the abundant intelligence about Nazi Germany's plans for an invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, either because he did not believe them or because Joseph Stalin did not want to hear them. He served in subsequent campaigns and was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the
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"Golikov was a perfect choice. While he himself likely saw Stalin as a guardian angel, Stalin surely saw in him an individual on whom he could rely completely."
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"We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Partys demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline."
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