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Article: Russian Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov Dies; Wrote of Soviet Repression
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- The Washington Post
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- December 7, 1995
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Dmitri Volkogonov, 67, a military historian whose determined
curiousity and lonely quest for the truth helped reveal the extent of
Soviet brutality and repression, died of cancer Dec. 5 near Moscow.
Gen. Volkogonov rose through the ranks of the Red Army to become a
three-star general in charge of political purity and spent most of
his life as a faithful servant of the Soviet state with no doubts
about communism. Yet in the early 1980s, as he gained access to
highly restricted military archives and began burrowing through the
files of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, he grasped the enormity of
the lies at the heart of official Soviet history and underwent a
profound intellectual transformation.
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