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...same short period the Baltic Fleet, backbone of the Soviet Navy, has had three different commanders: Sivkov, Issakov, and now Levchenko. Eight grand figures of the Soviet armed forces signed their names as judges to the condemnation of Marshal Tukachevsky, and of these eight at least four had by last week been purged. A fifth, Goriachev, figures in Moscow as in "doubtful standing...
Revelation No. 1: Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...
...them Marshal Alexander Yegorov who in May 1937 became First Vice-Commissar of Defense in succession to famed Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky who was executed as a "traitor" (TIME, June 21). The inference was that Yegorov and friends had "disappeared," would soon be liquidated like Admirals Orlov and Sivkov...
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