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...night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice: "The Office of the Commandant of the Kremlin regrets to announce the premature death February 15th of Major General Piotr Yevdokimovich Kosynkin and expresses its condolences to the bereaved family." Kosynkin was one of the chiefs of Stalin's bodyguards...
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