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Author’s Note:
Readers may notice that several sources are quoted without full details (city, publisher, page number). My
friends and anonymous supporters often send me photocopies of documents without these details. As I live
in hiding in the U.K. (the Soviets sentenced me to death for defecting to the West in 1978), getting the origi-
nal source data is often very difficult. But I do not doubt the veracity of my sources: for the last twenty years
my sources have never been challenged by critics, even those who disagree with my conclusions. However,
readers who feel that missing source details are absolutely necessary are invited to e-mail their requests to
info@suvorov.com. My friends and I will do our best to oblige.
Preface
1. GULAG —Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei (Main Directorate of Correctional Labor Camps, Labor
Settlements and Places of Incarceration), one of the names for the Soviet prison system. It became part
of the NKVD—Narodnyi Commissariat Vnutrennikh Del (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs) from
1930, and then became a part of the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) in 1956.

Introduction
1. is name has been used since 1942. Other names were used before, but in this book, only GRU is used.
2. Soviet Military Encyclopedia (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1976), 5:67.

Chapter 1
Epigraph: Lev Davydovich Trotsky, speech during seizure of power, third speech at the Second All-
Russian Conference of Soviets, October 26, 1917.
1. Out of an agreed-upon 245 tons of gold, 92 were delivered to Germany, but confiscated from it by
victorious France.
Chapter 2
Epigraph: Zhizn Natzional’nostei, no. 6 (1918).
1. Vladimir I. Lenin, Complete Collected Works, 5th ed. (Moscow: Politizdat, 1977), 41:353.
2. Ibid.
3. V. Ivanov, “Requiem on Victorious Steel Drums, in Ural, nos. 2–3 (1994): 242; N. Kakurin and B.
Melikov, Civil War in Russia: War with the White Poles (Moscow: St. Petersburg, 2002), 670.
4. Kakurin and Melikov, Civil War in Russia, 556.
5. e Comintern and the Idea of the World Revolution: Documents (Moscow: Nauka, 1998), 186.

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