Grigori Tokaty
Russian rocket scientist
Died when: 94 years 41 days (1129 months)Star Sign: Libra
Grigory Aleksandrovich Tokaev (Ossetian: ?????? ???æ?? ???? ????? / Tokaty Axmæty fyrt Gogki;Russian: ???????? ????????????? ??????) also known as Grigory Tokaty; (13 October 1909 – 23 November 2003) was a Soviet rocket scientist and politician.
Eventually turned anti-communist, he defected to the United Kingdom and became a long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR.During his time in Britain, he also worked to create material for the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office which promoted anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War.
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