“For a long time I've been telling Stalin that Beria is a crook but Stalin won't listen.”

— Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

Quoted in "Armed truce: the beginnings of the Cold War 1945-46"‎ - Page 65 - by Hugh Thomas - History - 1986

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