10-12-2009, 01:14 AM
desantnik Wrote:And when they were killing of tens of thousands of their best and brightest...
We recently visited a former Soviet-bloc factory and in its museum was a photo of the factory's leadership taken in 1935. A sharp-eyed colleague pointed out that the face of one the organization's leaders was subsequently scratched out.
The timing of your post is a nice coincidence. I am near the end of the chapter in Christopher Andrew's KGB: The Inside Story which he titled "Stalin and Spy Mania (1926-1938)." This is truly the darkest hour in Soviet history. I can understand how people in some republics, especially the Baltic ones and Ukraine could be angry if not bitter towards Moscow "authority" and the whole Soviet period.
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