"One good rule is that the language in Soviet secret documents ordering that action be taken is usually valid, while other information may be mere Party-line myth—as with the 1933 secret instructions to blockade the Ukraine and the Kuban to prevent famine victims escaping northward. The operational order was intended to be obeyed, and it was. The explanation given was false: that the peasants were acting on instructions of Socialist Revolutionaries and the Polish intelligence service."
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From a review of Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov, trans./ed. Harold Shukman published by the Free Press in October 1994.
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Robert Conquest
George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian and poet known for his works on Soviet history, including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s first published in 1968.
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