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I completely agree as into Kopets as well into Timin errors. Timin and I were frequently in touch. He completed some interesting studies as into 20, 21 and 45 SAD during 1941 ( area of my research ) however just because he worked at TsAMO this does not qualify him as a final source of information . For example his material related to Odessa Military District aviation groups duing 1941 containing major errors....Timin is not specialised into Red Army purges , he's not a qualified historian of VVS 1941 - 1944 eras ,nor ever completed any studies into VMF Air Fleet 1941-1944 .Further more he repeatedly disputed various relevant details on Denes /Karlenko publications which at this point was a major lack of knowledge at his end . PS : Kopets case is just an other Stalinist era " suicide " case with parallels to Ordzhonikidze and Nadezhda A. deaths