Soviet Officials Denied Catastrophe Amid War Fears
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“there was an enormous amount of genuine confusion about what to do. It is easy to suppose that this was because he wanted to keep his job, unlike all senior Soviet officials. He was engaged in this process of denialism that was endemic to the state. But there was also something else at work, which is that people who are engulfed in catastrophes like this one, there is a level in which they are simply unable to process what's going on around them and they can't really even believe the evidence of their own eyes.”
“Советские чиновники были охвачены отрицанием катастрофы. Ясно, что как только Казимир что-то подпишет, эдакая, сразу начнется война. Ну, Казимир поэтому не спешил подписывать и пытался еще усилить свою армию.”
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