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took part in two air battles.” He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, went on to
become deputy chief test pilot of the Sukhoi bureau, and was made a hero of the Russian
Federation in 1992; http://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7749- Zhayvoronok, “Vozvrashchenie k proshlomu,” p. 47. Linkov, who served in Eg ypt after
the ceasefire, wrote apparently from word of mouth: “often, after launching a missile, the
Eg yptians would flee the emplacements and were of little use to the Soviet specialists, who
were frequently killed with the untrained crews.” Bondarenko, “Mariupol’tsy.” - Konstantin Popov, “O vypolnenii internatsional’nogo dolga nashimi voinami PVO v ARE
s marta 1970 po mart 1971g.,” in Safonov et al., Grif, pp. 127–8. - The ballad was written by Evgeny Grachev, a journalism graduate from Moscow State
University who served as an interpreter in the trenches of Qantara. Egorin, Egipet,
pp. 182–3. - Viktor Logachev, “Eto zabyt’ nevozmozhmo,” in Safonov et al., Grif, pp. 144–6. The writer
was at the time of writing in 1998 a senior researcher at the Institute of Military History. - Volodin, “Na Izrail’.”
- Aleksandr Pechenkin, interviewed in Grachev, “Nebo.”
- Interviewed in Galanin, “Boi nad piramidami.”
- Khandanyan, “Zharkoe.”
- Interviewed in Aleksandr Chernushevich, “Ego nazyvali ‘rusi khabar,’” Minskiy Kur’er,
1221 (12 June 2007). A fully equipped “Lenin Room” for Soviet personnel was discov-
ered in a Syrian artillery headquarters when it was captured by the IDF in the Yom Kippur
War. Prof. Omri Ronen, commenting in Zvezda Magazine, 5 (2013), http://magazines.
russ.ru/zvezda/2013/5/e15.html - AC, Dayan testimony, pp. 67–8. Dayan still “believed” it was a SAM-6 battery; Commission
member Lt-Gen. Hayyim Laskov, a former chief of staff, corrected him that it was an
“advanced SAM-3.” - Popov, “O vypolnenii internatsional’nogo dolga,” p. 118. Lev Gromov was deputy for air
defense to the chief adviser/commander of Soviet forces, and thus outranked Smirnov.
Okorokov, Sekretnye voyny, pp. 72, 74; “18-ya (28-ya) Krasnoznamennaya diviziya PVO
osobogo naznacheniya,” http://www.hubara-rus.ru/18zrd.html - Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, pp. 1099–104.
- AC, Dayan testimony, p. 68. Dayan may have meant that Ne’eman’s plane was effectively
put out of action. - Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, pp. 1071–2.
- Smirnov, “O podgotovke,” p. 33. Upon Smirnov’s return to Moscow in February 1971,
Grechko praised his outfit’s performance and (as Smirnov recalled) related Nasser’s
exchange with Brezhnev as if it took place on 3 August 1970 rather than 30 June. Nasser
was not in Moscow in August, and Heikal had already published the story in July. But this
reflects the Soviets’ pride in the engagement. - Logachev, “Eto zabyt’ nevozmozhno,” p. 158.