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in deception of Hitler, 122 Nuremberg trial, 279, 282–284
on invasion of Poland, 112
on Operation Barbarossa, 242 Odessa military district, 211
on Soviet territorial claims, 182 Ogarkovets, Richard, 43
on TASS announcement, 220 oil supplies
TB-7 and, 32–33 as factor in intelligence analysis, 249
Molotov Line, 174–174 German requirements for, 158–159
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 43, 108, 109–110, 111, Stalingrad’s importance to, 79
163 synthetic fuels and, 158
as evidence of war crime, 282 On the Foundations of Leninism (Stalin), 125
as German miscalculation, 236–237 164th Rifle Division, 256–257
TASS announcement on compliance with, 207– Operation Barbarossa, 192. See also Soviet-German
208, 216 War
Mongolia. See also Battle of Khalkhin-Gol impact of Russian winter on, 263–265
defeat of Japanese Sixth Army in, 108–109 inadvisability of, 239–240
Soviet air superiority in, 105–106 lack of signs and indicators for, 248–250
Moscow Pact, 111 Stalin’s reaction to, 260–262
Moskalenko, K.S., 167, 209, 223 strategic aviation in, 241, 242
motorized transportation, 241 strategic goal of, 242
mountain rifle divisions, 197–198, 200 tanks in, 240–241
Muller-Gillebrand, B., 132, 133 transportation issues in, 241
Muralov, N.I., 93 Operation Sea Lion, 157
Murometz bomber, 35 Ortenberg, D., 116
mustard gas, 18 Ozerov, G., 214
Nagasaki bombing, 272 Pacific fleet, 270
Nakajima B-5N light bomber, 62–63, 64 Palace of the Soviets, x, 12
National Socialism, 218 Panther tank, 44–45
National Socialist German Workers’ Party. See Nazi Parafilo, T. M., 150
Party paratroops. See airborne assault troops
natural resources partisan groups, 168–170
1939 agreements on, 182–183 passports, internal, 101
iron ore, 146 Paulus, Friedrich, 100, 187
lumber, 149 Pavlov, D., 167, 185, 254
oil, 79, 158–159 Pe-2 dive-bomber, 39, 69
for shipbuilding, 128 Peace Decree, 2–3
in Soviet industrialization, 24–25 Pearl Harbor attack, 62, 267
Winter War and, 148–149 peasants’ uprising, 10–11
naval acquisitions, 127–129 People’s Commissariat of Defense Industry, 127
navy. See Soviet navy Petliakov, Vladimir, 33, 35, 39
Nazi Party Petrovsky, L. G., 226
in elections of 1932, 29–31 Philin, A. I., 37
financial difficulties of, 29–30 phrase books, 257–258
in German revolution of 1923, 13, 14 Piatakov, Grigory, 12
Stalin on ascendency of, 29 Piker, Henry, 265
Nemecek, Vaclav, 32 pillbox fortifications, 142–144, 172
New Economic Policy, 27 Pilsudsky, Joseph, 85
newspapers, communist, 4 Pinsk military flotilla, 191, 193, 194
Nezval, I., 35 Poland
nickel supply, 149 allied talks on, 106–107
19th Army, 200, 231 as buffer state, 160
9th Army, 196–198 German demand for corridor through, 106
9th Special Rifle Corps, 194–195 German invasion of
Non-Aggression Pact, 108, 109–110, 111 comparison to Khalkhin-Gol, 115–117
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 279 logistics failures in, 118
North Korea, 274 Moscow Pact and, 111–113
North Vietnam, 274 Soviet complicity in, 107–108
Northern Bukovina, 153, 157 tactical considerations in, 117–118
Novik, K. I., 200 in Mein Kampf, 22
Novikov, A. A., 215 parade celebrating division of, 104