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Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS

Viktor Suvorov

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Great find, thanks! Some of his other works are also worth reading: 'Inside the Soviet Army': http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/index.html One excerpt: > The winter of 1969 was an exceptionally bitter one in the Soviet Far East. When the first clashes with the Chinese took place on the river Ussuri, and before combat divisions reached the area, the pressure exerted by the enemy was borne by the KGB frontier troops. After the clash was over, the General Staff held a careful investigation into all the mistakes and oversights which had occurred. It was quickly discovered that several KGB soldiers had frozen to death in the snow, simply because they had never received elementary instruction in sleeping out in temperatures below zero.…