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4 days ago · The Government Delegate, together with most members of the Council of National Unity and the Commander-in-chief of the Armia Krajowa, were invited by Soviet general Ivan Serov with agreement of Joseph Stalin to a conference on their eventual entry to the Soviet-backed Provisional Government.
2 days ago · Cathy Young. Jun 24, 2024. A statue of Yevgeny Prigozhin stands at his grave at the Porokhovskoye cemetery in Saint Petersburg on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Olga Maltseva /AFP via Getty Images) A YEAR AGO TODAY, the world watched in amazement as, for the first time since 1941, an army marched toward Moscow. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the onetime Vladimir ...
2 days ago · That same month, Mielke's future handler, NKGB General Ivan Serov, travelled to Germany from Warsaw and, from his headquarters in the Berlin suburb of Karlshorst, divided the Soviet Zone into "Operative Sectors."
6 days ago · The Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1939 until 1952, and was replenished in 1941. It elected, at its 1st Plenary Session, the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission .
4 days ago · After Okhrymovych's death and the flight from Poland of his successor Ivan Habrusevych in 1931, he became the leading candidate to become head of the homeland executive.
4 days ago · General Yuri Drozdov, a legendary spymaster who was in charge of a large network of KGB agents abroad during the Cold War era, died in Moscow on June 21. He was 91. Drozdov, was feared and...
5 days ago · When Gorbachev refused, he was held prisoner while the coup leaders, called the Extraordinary Commission and guided by KGB boss Vladimir Kryuchkov, declared that Gorbachev had been obliged to resign for reasons of health.
