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Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich, 35 Soviet marshals, 97
Sikorsky, V., 224 Soviet Military Intelligence, 169
Sivkov, A. K., 205 Soviet navy
16th Army, 210–211, 231 Baltic fleet, 148
6th Army, 224 in Far East campaign, 274
6th Tank Guards Army, 269, 273 marines in, 194
Skliansky, Efraim, 179–180 offensive nature of, 129, 253–254
Skoda factories, 245 riverine military flotillas, 190–195
Slovak Soviet Republic, 5 sailors’ uprising, 10
SMK tank, 46 ship acquisition, 127–129
socialism, 218, 266 Soviet republics, post-war formation of, 5
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 226 Soviet Union. See also Russia
Sorge, Richard, 101, 246–247 famines in, 27, 280
Southern Front, 153–154 impact of war with Germany on, 261–262
Southwestern Front, 228 official founding of, 11–12
Soviet army partisan units in, 168–170
High Command conference and, 184–186 post-war expansion of, 278–279
manpower mobilization, 239 propaganda and censorship in, 116
mountain divisions, 196–201 security pale in, 164–165
officer dismissals from, 95–96 support for German revolution, 12–15
partisan warfare and, 168 territorial claims of, 181
post-revolution disintegration of, 3 Soviet war game, 186–189
purges of Spanish Civil War
Germany’s role in, 81, 91, 94 Communist defeat in, 100
myths concerning, 81, 94–95 German aid in, 98
primary sources on, 95 international volunteers in, 99, 101–102
prominent examples of, 93–94 Russian peoples’ interest in, 100–101
purpose of, 92 Soviet military support in, 99–100
Stalin’s reasons for, 83–84 Stalin’s motives in, 102–103
Tukhachevski in modernization of, 85–91 Spartakus, 4
Soviet Army High Command conference, 184–185 special operations, 184–185
Soviet-German Agreements of 1939, 182 spheres of interest agreement, 283–286
Soviet-German border. See buffer states Stalin, Joseph
Soviet-German military cooperation, 17–18 as chairman of Soviet government, 202–205
Soviet-German spheres of interest agreement, 283– Churchill’s letters to, 234–236, 247
286 comparison with Hitler, ix–xi
Soviet-German War. See also Operation Barbarossa on German revolution, 13, 14
absence of maps in, 258–259 on inevitability of second world war, 29
ad hoc defensive operations in, 252–253 military academy speeches of, 204–205
air reconnaissance missions in, 251 on Nazi takeover of Germany, 29
force deportations in, 256 on non-aggression pact, 109
impact of Russian winter on, 263–265 on non-intervention, 273
naval action in, 253–254 on offensive war, 205
phrase book as intelligence indicator in, 257– on power, 125
258 on promises and pacts, 163
Soviet offensive focus in, 253–255 pseudonyms of, 58
Soviet propaganda on, 257–259 reaction to German invasion, 260–262
Soviet unpreparedness for, 251–252 as scholar of Mein Kampf, 19–20
Stalin’s reaction to, 260–262 secretiveness of, 121, 207–208
Soviet intelligence on speed of attack, 226
on fuel supply and composition, 249 Trotsky on objectives of, 103–104
on German preparations for invasion, 248–250 in Trotsky’s murder, 180
long reach of, 245 as war criminal, 282–284
penetration of intelligence community by, 6–7 Stalin Line
Richard Sorge and, 246–247 comparison to Maginot Line, 172–173
Russian-German phrase books and, 257–258 comparison to Molotov Line, 174–175
on sheep industry, 248–249 construction of, 171–172
Soviet intelligence agencies, 244 uses of, 176–177
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, 266–267, 268 Stalingrad defense, 79–80, 134
Soviet marines, 194 Stalin’s Pipe Organs, 58–59