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Soviet Russia’s Reaction to t
Implications of the Suppr
Notes
1 Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War: A Sov
ed. and trans. Antony Beevor and Luba Vin
vii-xvii.
2 Olga Baranova, “Politics of Memory of th
for Human Sciences, last modified 2015, a
publications/5-junior-visiting-fellows-con
the-holocaust-in-the-soviet-union/. “Sovi
primarily on documents from Soviet Stat
the directives of the Higher Command an
resented the war as a genuine popular res
against the Nazi invader. Moreover, it was
supposed to reinforce the feeling of comm
goes on to say: “Western scholars argued
regime to conceal the murder of the Jews
and traditional hostility towards Jewish cu
3 Ibid.
4 Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: Th
ington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987
5 Ibid., 84.
6 Ibid., 68.
7 Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, ed
York, 1948), 175–76.
8 Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, 76.
9 Jared McBride, “Ukrainian Holocaust Pe
Their Victims,” Tablet Magazine, July 20
news-and-politics/208439/holocaust-perp
10 Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis
2000), 357–58.
11 USC Shoah Foundation, “The Red Army
June 2, 2019, https://www.facinghistory.o
majdanek. Bernhard Storch, a Pole who jo
up transferring to the Red Army, was am
1944: “We entered very, very carefully ... w
(barbed) wires and everything ... we still
nobody told us that ... we thought it was a b
SS people and two Polish collaborators ...
we saw a chimney ... we saw a tremendous
maybe that’s industrial waste ... we saw sho
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