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Soviet Russia’s Reaction to t
Implications of the Suppr
24 Mykola Karpenko, interview for Radio Fr
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-world-w
html.
25 Marchand, “Soviet Veteran Recounts Hor
26 Laurence Rees, “Raped by Their Saviours
One Nightmare Only to Face Another Un
2010, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
escaped-nightmare-faced-unimaginable-o
27 Ishaan Tharoor, “What a Soviet Soldier S
Years Ago,” The Washington Post, Janua
com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/27/
liberated-auschwitz-70-years-ago/?utm_te
28 Rees, “Raped by Their Saviours.”
29 Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms:
(Cambridge: University Press, 2005), 834.
30 Leonid Trofimov, “Soviet Reporters at th
Encounters, 1945–46,” Critical History Rev
academia.edu/12799501/Soviet_Report
Attitudes_and_Encounters_1945-46.
31 Ibid., 49–50. Joseph Stalin argued that “fa
nomic crisis of the capitalist system, an ind
ist countries are. [ ... ] zealously destroying
tarianism and bourgeois democracy [ ... ]
maintaining their dictatorship. Soviet cou
when they proclaimed to Robert Jackson
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid., 51.
34 Anshel Pfeffer, “The Polish Were Once Vic
Are Doing the Same,” Haaretz, January 28,
polish-victims-of-the-whitewashing-of-hi
35 Ola Hnatiuk, “How the Soviet Union Su
ism,’” The Odessa Review, November 16, 2
suppressed-holocaust-fight-nationalism/.
up the task of ‘cleansing’ society of ‘susp
police conducted systematic and meticu
citizens during the occupation. Those im
filtration camp designed by the NKVD (S
USSR.”
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