THE KREMLIN: Dead Men Tell a Tale

The ordinary Russian people, who are not privy to Communist secrets (even when they are deliberately leaked to the world), are just beginning to learn the truth about Stalin and their new rulers' turn against the old Dictator. Last week some among them got a dramatic reinterpretation of the events leading to World War II and an explanation of the ignominious and costly defeats of the Red army in 1941-42.

Communist leaders at the 20th Party Congress had already heard First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev bluntly charge that Stalin "murdered" Marshal Mikhail...

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