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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:13, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
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Ivan Ustinov
- ... that Ivan Ustinov, an officer with the NKVD and SMERSH during the Second World War, threatened to shoot any soldier who wanted to surrender? Sources in Russian: "During the war years he served in the Special Department of the NKVD, and later the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "Smersh"..." and "- Comrades, I'm from military counterintelligence! - he said. - Now we will organize and break out. I checked: it will be possible to break through here. If someone is scared and wants to surrender, I will shoot him with the power given to me by the Motherland!" ([1], [2])
Created by Spokoyni (talk). Self-nominated at 02:50, 19 January 2020 (UTC).
Hi Spokoyni, review follows: article created 19 January; article is of good length and well written; article is cited inline throughout; sourcing seems OK, to Russian newspapers and a government site. I have one query with regards shieldandsword.mozohin.ru - it's not one I've seen before, could you advise what makes it reliable? No English sources so I can't check for overly close paraphrasing, AGF on this; hook is mentioned in article, AGF that source backs it up; A QPQ has been carried out. Looking good, if you could just let me know about that one source - Dumelow (talk) 09:48, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks User:Dumelow, shieldandsword is website that accumulates and presents information on the security services from published books, and helpfully lists them at the bottom, in that biography's case Ustinov's Stronger Than Steel. Notes of a Veteran of Military Counterintelligence, and A. Bondarenko's Military Counterintelligence. 1918-2010. I've found it to be very reliable, particularly as these works are often hard to find in hard copy. The website's author, Oleg Mozokhin, is a specialist on the security services, and a "Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences ... author of books and more than 100 articles on the history of Russian special services of the Soviet period." A little more about him here. Spokoyni (talk) 10:28, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
