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“CERTAINLY PREPARING FOR WAR” ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN FUGITIVE. STATEMENT TO INTERVIEWER IN. TOKIO. TOKIO, July 13. In an interview with the Associated Press today, General Lushekov, Chief of the Siberian G.P.U. (Secret Police), who took refuge in Manchukuo last month and then went to Tokio, said that Soviet Russia was certainly preparing for war, but that her real/intentions were unknown because Stalin alone ruled, having destroyed the proletarian Communist regime. There was, therefore intense unrest. Questioned about the morale of the Red army, he replied that it was poor, due to lack of confidence in the leadership, dissatisfaction with the accommodation, and the disorganisation of the food and munitions supply. Moreover, the handling of equipment was careless and disaffected due to countless relatives of the troops being among the millions arrested and executed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 7
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135SOVIET AIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 7
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