Stalin and Yezhov: An Extra-Paradigmatic View - by Philip E. Panaggio
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Mail Order and/or Internet References:
TDL-NKVD & 3 MAINS. Send $5.00 US dollars, check or money order, made out to Philip E. Panaggio and mail to: P. O. Box 85, Lehigh Acres, FL 33970-0085, USA requesting paper. Or view: http://www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/rus/lyse-nkvd.html - view also the post "Lysenko vs. Genetics, 3 Main Things" by "Comrade TL." These are two interrelated papers.
Turania: Part I - Turanians and Interactions with Chinese Dynasties; Part II - Turania or the Soviet Union. Part I shows interrelations of Turanian (Ural-Altaic) people and Khanates with China. A very good historical pointer. Part II gives a descriptive, accurate picture of the alien land on which the Soviet people lived. Available by mail only. Send $7.00 US dollars, check or money order, made out to Philip E. Panaggio and mail to: P. O. Box 85, Lehigh Acres, FL 33970-0085, USA requesting paper.
NKVD-INFO & YEZHOV Send $4.00 US dollars, check or money order, made out to Philip E. Panaggio and mail to: P.O. Box 85, Lehigh Acres, FL 33970-0085, USA requesting paper. Or view: http://www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/rus/tl-nkvd.html - view also the related post on Nikolai Yezhov by "Comrade TL." This paper was also e-mailed to J. Arch Getty who thanked the author for the information.
Sci.med a Usenet newsgroup on the Internet. Or one may contact any Poison Control Center in their State or any toxicology book.
Newspaper article:
La Temps, January 1932
Acknowledgments: I wish to give thanks to Brendan Barnett for extensive research at the University of Virginia Library and on the World Wide Web, as well as to Angela Ortiz of the Lehigh Acres Public Library for patient and professional Inter-Library Loan assistance. Especial thanks go to my wife, the editor, for making my overly-long sentences readable, for clarifying many of my concepts and presentations and for advice on finding the impossible middle-ground of writing for both scholars and laymen.
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