Ага, я уже нашел — слава богу, книга оцифрована и доступна. Вот абзац целиком:
It was one of Spain's many misfortunes at this time that her Civil War coincided with the climax of Stalin's great terror. Many of the Barcelona murders had little to do with Spain's internal politics but were, rather, the backlash of events in Moscow and Leningrad. Thus Robles was executed because, as interpreter of General Jan Antonovich Berzin, head of the Russian military mission to Spain, he knew too much about Berzin's recall and liquidation as part of Stalin's purge of the army. Stalin was having his leading agents killed all over the world in 1937-8. And, as in Russia, virtually all the creatures who helped him to take over the Left in Spain, and then to terrorize it, were murdered in turn. The head of the NKVD' S foreign department was cornered in his own office in Paris in February 1938 and forced to take cyanide. Of those who organized arms supplies to Spain, Evhen Konovalek was killed in Rotterdam in May 1938, Rudolf Clement was found, a headless corpse, in the Seine, and Walter Krivitsky, boss of Soviet military intelligence in Western Europe, was chased for three years by Stalin's hit-men until they got him in Washington on 10 February 1941. [88] In addition to General Berzin, Stalin murdered Michael Koltzov, the famous Pravda Spanish correspondent, Arthur Stashevky, head of the economic mission to Spain, and Antonov Ovseenko, Consul-General in Barcelona, who was told he was being recalled to Moscow to be made Minister of Justice, a joke characteristic of Stalin's gallows-humour. [89] The only man who escaped Stalin was the arch-killer Orlov himself, who defected, wrote an account of all he knew, informed Stalin that he had arranged to have it published immediately if he died violently, and so was left in peace, publishing his tale after Stalin's death. [90]
Думаю, все объясняется достаточно легко. Джонсон был человек очень эрудированный, но писание книг об общей истории всего неизбежно влекло поверхностность в знакомстве с материалом. Например, сразу видно, что он неправильно написал сразу два имени, и Коновальца, и Клемента (который был через "k", а не через "c"). Практически уверен, что в данном случае он просто перепутал Коновальца с кем-то другим — скорее всего, с Игнатием Рейссом. Сталинские киллеры охотились за несколькими категориями жертв, включая руководителей военной белой эмиграции, оппозиционеров-троцкистов, украинских националистов и (в первую очередь) перебежчиков из тайных служб, и именно к числу последних относились те, кто координировал испанские дела.
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Date: 2021-06-23 04:21 pm (UTC)It was one of Spain's many misfortunes at this time that her Civil War coincided with the climax of Stalin's great terror. Many of the Barcelona murders had little to do with Spain's internal politics but were, rather, the backlash of events in Moscow and Leningrad. Thus Robles was executed because, as interpreter of General Jan Antonovich Berzin, head of the Russian military mission to Spain, he knew too much about Berzin's recall and liquidation as part of Stalin's purge of the army. Stalin was having his leading agents killed all over the world in 1937-8. And, as in Russia, virtually all the creatures who helped him to take over the Left in Spain, and then to terrorize it, were murdered in turn. The head of the NKVD' S foreign department was cornered in his own office in Paris in February 1938 and forced to take cyanide. Of those who organized arms supplies to Spain, Evhen Konovalek was killed in Rotterdam in May 1938, Rudolf Clement was found, a headless corpse, in the Seine, and Walter Krivitsky, boss of Soviet military intelligence in Western Europe, was chased for three years by Stalin's hit-men until they got him in Washington on 10 February 1941. [88] In addition to General Berzin, Stalin murdered Michael Koltzov, the famous Pravda Spanish correspondent, Arthur Stashevky, head of the economic mission to Spain, and Antonov Ovseenko, Consul-General in Barcelona, who was told he was being recalled to Moscow to be made Minister of Justice, a joke characteristic of Stalin's gallows-humour. [89] The only man who escaped Stalin was the arch-killer Orlov himself, who defected, wrote an account of all he knew, informed Stalin that he had arranged to have it published immediately if he died violently, and so was left in peace, publishing his tale after Stalin's death. [90]
Думаю, все объясняется достаточно легко. Джонсон был человек очень эрудированный, но писание книг об общей истории всего неизбежно влекло поверхностность в знакомстве с материалом. Например, сразу видно, что он неправильно написал сразу два имени, и Коновальца, и Клемента (который был через "k", а не через "c"). Практически уверен, что в данном случае он просто перепутал Коновальца с кем-то другим — скорее всего, с Игнатием Рейссом. Сталинские киллеры охотились за несколькими категориями жертв, включая руководителей военной белой эмиграции, оппозиционеров-троцкистов, украинских националистов и (в первую очередь) перебежчиков из тайных служб, и именно к числу последних относились те, кто координировал испанские дела.