Serov.

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Previously I have blogged on the sadistically cruel Soviet General Serov.

It was generally UNCLEAR as to what became of the General after his dismissal from Soviet military intelligence [GRU].

Suvorov suggests he was "liquidated" [killed].

Internet sites suggest he lived a long life.

Dzhirkvelov in his book, "Secret Servant" maintains that Serov was a suicide:

"They say that every malicious act is ultimately avenged. So it was with Serov, the head of the KGB, whose hands were red with the blood of Soviet people [others too!!]. A specialist in the business of mass deportations, a man without honor or conscience, sadistic and unprincipled . . . After a heavy drinking bout, he shot himself and was found dead in the doorway of a greengrocer's shop on the Arbat."

"Finding himself [Serov] in disfavour and, indeed, at least getting a taste of his own medicine, Serov took to drink and, in a state of drunkenness, shot himself in the back alley on the Arbat near a greengrocer's shop where an old friend of his worked. Such was the inglorious end of the cruel general. He did not even merit an obituary notice apart from the announcement of his death, signed by an anonymous group of comrades."

A PERSON NOT MISSED!

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