HST 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Union Busting, Aryan Race, Lebensraum
24 Feb 2015
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Uk and russia have a mutual fixation on each other. Nazi germany able to slip under the radar, gain no attention. Us not yet an intelligence power at this point. Assumption is that russian violence (like cheka, gulaks) was mindless, but it was very methodical and very dangerous. In reality, russian intelligence should be viewed as intelligent, thoughtful, long term, organized, and obsessed. Russia had a very patient approach, and wouldn"t see great espionage success until 1940s and. 1920s work + diligence made their success in the 40s and 50s possible. English spy, took highly professional approach to espionage. Made whole game" up, no script, no help for disguises, no formal orders, no networks, no base camps. Enormous capacity for language, culture and history, very important to spying. Language =/= vernacular, duke mastered vernacular (vernacular= how a language is informally spoken by natives, not the formal learned kind) Spoke pre-revolution" (revolutions change language used and subject matter) and regional.
