Word: orlov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revelation" that Stalin was a spy for the czarist secret police, Okhrana, appears in article by Alexander Orlov, one of the Soviet Union's highest ranking NKVD officers in the 1930's. Orlov offers his story as an explanation for the recent about face of Russian leaders in denouncing Stalin...
Present Russian bosses, Orlov says, have probably discovered only recently "Stalin's guiltiest secret of all." Orlov claims to have learned of the spying activities from a cousin who was a Soviet army commander. He did not reveal it until now, when anti-Stalin sentiment is rising in Russia, for fear of Soviet revenge upon himself and his family in Russia, Orlov explained...
There is no proof for Orlov's statement other than his word, Malia said. If the story is true, he added, it is surprising that no one has discovered it before...
Pravda attacked a number of local party officials and Scientists Avalov, Orlov, Nesterov and Shchedrin for "slanderous statements directed against the party's policy and its Leninist foundations." Singled out for his "provocative, antiparty" attitude was Economist L. D. Yaroshenko, whom Stalin himself denounced for "Bukharinism...
...printed map, accompanying each invitation, showed the way to the picnic ground, a 280-acre government estate some 60 miles from Moscow, once the property of Count Orlov, a favorite of Catherine the Great. Here, behind a high board fence topped with barbed wire and guarded by soldiers, the Soviet leadership was in line to welcome the guests...