* In the last year of his life Simonov attempted to establish a special collection of soldiers’ memoirs at the Ministry of Defence archives in Podolsk, just outside Moscow, but high-ranking army leaders were opposed to the idea (‘O popytke K. Simonova sozdat’ arkhiv voennykh memuarov’, Otechestvennye arkhivy, 1993, no. 1, pp. 63–73).

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