Comments on: Leadership Training in the Soviet Union https://www.isegoria.net/2011/02/leadership-training-in-the-soviet-union/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2011/02/leadership-training-in-the-soviet-union/comment-page-1/#comment-3704789 T. Beholder Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:52:10 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=23258#comment-3704789 The last two paragraphs are followed by a sequel of a sort. The book is named “Taking my Words Back”. :]

After he began to dig around these operations. Losing the remnants of romantic notions of then-gone bipolar world and falling to the realpolitik side may have something to do with this, too.

IMHO his explanation of why top Soviet officers pretty much unanimously flip-flopped in their statements on Zhukov (back when the next purge looked like a real possibility, vs during Khruschev vs Zhukov power struggle) is solid.

Then there was “Unknown Zhukov” — a biography via collected memoirs by other history enthusiasts. Not pretty.

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