On a cool October day in Moscow in 2017, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, stepped up to the microphone at an outdoor ceremony to unveil a statue honouring a notable predecessor.
‘The name of Pavel Fitin is returning to our history,’ Naryshkin said of the man who ran the Soviet Union’s foreign spying apparatus during world war two.
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This article originally appeared on the SpyTalk Substack.
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