Background
Orlov, Aleksandr was born in 1896.
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Aleksandr Orlov
Edit ProfileIntelligence and state security officer
Career
Head of GPU operations in Western Europe in the 1930s. Sent as GPU chief to Spain during the Civil War. In 1938, ordered by Stalin to return to the USSR. Defected to Paris, and moved to the USA. Lived with his family in seclusion in Cleveland until the moment of Stalin’s death, when he published in the American press some information on Stalin’s crimes, while not giving away much about his own contributions to GPU operations abroad.
According to authorities in this field, his knowledge of GPU and NKVD operations throughout the world was extraordinary.
Religion
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
Views
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
