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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
I don't remember, it's been a while since I read the book. I know there were attempts against Tito but they didn't get him, he was too slippery for them. I remember reading that Tito was angered by the attempts of Stalin to kill him that he threatened to send his own guys against Stalin, and according to to Tito "he would only need to send one guy". He was a feisty fellow, that Tito.
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Germans were trying to kill Stalin in WW2.
They prepared a hit group and even invented a small version of Panzerfaust to hit a car
in which they expected Stalin would arrive from his datcha to Kremlin. That contraption was supposed to be carried out under the coat and fired through a sleeve of a coat.
So they needed a coat according to ways the Russians would wear in Moscow with really wide sleeves. They ordered such a coat to one of tailors in Riga who ostensibly
knew the Moscow style. Unfortunately for Germans that tailor was in the network of NKVD agents. He made the order and informed his handlers. They were alerted and soon enough a guy and his partner (a lady) was captured still far away from Stalin.
OK. I will tell the other two guys in the quiz tomorrow.
Let's give other guys take their chances.
But you are good, indeed
So, one guy died because he loved lots of women. I have no problem with that.
Another guy died because of 'a heat attack' caused by a fountain pen.