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100186
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Homeland and adherence to professional duty. They had to perform such urgent, top priority tasks as mobilizing the international capabilities of the Soviet Union to rebuff the Fascist aggression, prevent enlargement of the Fascist coalition, and take advantage of the contradictions in the enemy camp to effect its split. In order to perform these momentous tasks, Soviet diplomats were required to have the following capabilities: in-depth knowledge of all the intricacies of international problems as a whole and of those in their immediate work field in particular; high resistance to stress; the ability to work efficiently under psychological pressure and in conditions of high physical exertion; the competence to rapidly make decisions and carry them out in perpetual extraordinary situations; and the ability to subtly bring partners round to their way of thinking during talks and negotiations.
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101058
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This article surveys the subject generating military reserves for the Soviet Union's Red Army in the Siberian Military District during the first two years of the Soviet-German War (1941-45). A subsequent article will address the transfer of regular army formations and units to the Western theater of military operations during the same period of the war.
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The article is devoted to one of the most tragic episodes of the Patriotic War of 1812 (Napoleon’s Russian campaign), associated with a massive loss of Russian wounded in Moscow. For 200 years the participants of the events and historians have expressed many opinions about the causes, culprits of the tragedy, and the number of victims. Based on the integrated use of currently available sources, bringing previously unknown documents from the Russian and French archives, the author has tried to give convincing answers to the key questions of the theme. In his opinion, the retreating Russian army left in Moscow from 10,000 to 15,000 sick and wounded soldiers, of which at least 8,000 died or were taken prisoner. Some of the dead (about 1,000 people) were victims of fire, initiated by Moscow authorities headed by Governor-General F. V. Rostopchin. Causes of death for the greater part of the wounded and sick were associated mainly with the lack of medical care and food.
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100188
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THE DOCUMENTS from the RF Foreign Ministry Historical Documents Department made public for the first time relate to one of the little-known pages of the Great Patriotic War. According to the documents, the 70th Army of the 2nd Byelorussian Front under Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized the town of Prenzlau on April 27, 1945 during the course of the Berlin operation. Later in the day the army freed the inmates of the concentration camp, a short way from the town. Among the POWs were 2,311 officers of the Belgian army, including 33 generals.
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100187
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HE TRAGIC DAY for the entire Soviet people - June 22, 1941 - radically changed the operation of all foreign intelligence. The Edict of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet of July 20 merged the People's Commissariat for Interior Affairs (NKVD) and People Commissariat for National Security (NKGB) to form a single entity - the NKVD in order to concentrate the resources of state security agencies during wartime. The Fifth (Foreign) Directorate of the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) was reorganized into the First Directorate of the NKVD. Shortly before the war it had a staff of 700, ran 40 intelligence stations abroad with some 240 intelligence officers. The latter were connected to over 600 agents.
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044688
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1st ed.
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Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982.
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xi, 292p.hbk
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0631129936
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| 021912 | 947.08520924/MED 021912 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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100193
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2010.
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ADDRESSING AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, former Polish foreign minister Adam Rotfeld, * who co-chairs, together with MGIMO Rector Academician A.V. Torkunov, the Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Issues, cited the remarks that our head of government V.V. Putin made in Katyn on April 7, to the effect that the proportion of Russians killed in the war was nearly 80% of the total number of deaths - i.e., about 23 million people.
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