Talk:Grigori Tokaty

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Removed a sentence[edit]

The article had the following sentence in it until I removed it just now: "He also reported on how the opposition in the USSR behaved and how they planned a coup and the assassination of Soviet government officials and leaders, sometimes even with the help of high-ranking party members who had also became disillusioned with Stalinism." Having read Tokaev's political works, I think such a sentence is misleading for three reasons:

1. Tokaev makes clear that "the opposition" wasn't a single entity, and that the group he belonged to was opposed to terrorism and had never "planned a coup."

2. Tokaev writes that the charges of the Moscow Trials (of there being a massive conspiracy involving big names like Zinoviev, Bukharin, Tukhachevsky, etc.) were fictitious and aimed to discredit any opposition to Stalin.

3. When instances are mentioned in Tokaev's works pertaining to talk of assassination or planning coups, these are voiced either by an individual or a small group. To talk of "the opposition" as a whole or in general is clearly misleading in such instances. --Ismail (talk) 17:13, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]