Grandmaster Game: Tangent Line

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This sequence was a possibility in the 1948 World Championship between Smyslov and Euwe. The real game went:

A book I have gives ...Qe6 as an alternate move with the refutation Rxa6!, but fails to explain the line. I did this analysis when the power was out, as a way to pass the time.