Timeline for Did the Chief of Soviet General Staff really say this?
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| Aug 6, 2017 at 0:30 | history | edited | sempaiscuba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2017 at 10:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/872763215691862016 | ||
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| May 30, 2017 at 20:27 | comment | added | Alex | So are you asking, exactly? Whether Ogarkov really said this? (There is no answer to this question because this was a private conversation). Or whether this statement reflects the true situation in Soviet Union at that time? Please edit your question if you mean the second interpretation. | |
| May 30, 2017 at 14:14 | answer | added | sempaiscuba | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 14:07 | answer | added | T.E.D.♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 2:07 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | Well, it's not really a proper quote, to begin with. In the article it's given as an indirect speech. That is, Gelb's summary, in his own words, of what he claimed Ogarkov had said to him. | |
| May 30, 2017 at 0:56 | comment | added | sempaiscuba | I don't think that Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov ever wrote an autobiography, so we will never know his recollection of that conversation. However, he didn't die until January 1994, and he never challenged the veracity of the quote when he was alive. | |
| May 30, 2017 at 0:44 | history | edited | guest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 30, 2017 at 0:38 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 30, 2017 at 0:33 | history | asked | guest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |