Opinion Piece - Myths and Realities of the Great Patriotic War

[Epoletov [SPR].]

Periander wrote :

I have to question just how well Russia would have fared if the US and UK hadn't kept the Russian population fed and their armies equipped.

To you such example of an estimation of fighting capacity of the USSR is probably known.

When foreigners have asked Stalin that is necessary that the USSR continued struggle against fascists they were afraid to hear that it will ask machine guns, planes, tanks.
Then it would become clear, that they will soon suffer defeat.
But Stalin has asked strategic military materials (ore) independently to make the weapon at the military factories evacuated for Urals Mountains.

Without the foreign help of the USSR all would win fascists but with greater blood.

Thanks for your help to us!

Or if Hitler had a sudden attack of sanity and put a little more faith in Vlassov and all the other Russians who flocked to theGerman banner with the thought that they were helping to liberate their country. Hitler may have been fighting a crusade against bolshavism but if he'd sold it as a war of liberation ... well who knows.

Hitler wished to destroy whole people, therefore it has received the adequate answer - to destroy Germans.

In the USSR was a lot of dissatisfied with the Soviet authority, but fascists have appeared even more terrible bestys!

During war Stalin has reconsidered a policy in relation to people.
The orthodox church (priests are returned from army) has been restored.
Memory of heroes of the last years - Dmitry Donskoj, Alexander Nevsky, Suvorov, Kutuzov has been returned. And in fact they were not workers, and belonged to a class of enslavers and oppressors. Awards in their honour have been created. Signs on distinction as in army of Russian empire ("pogons" on shoulders) are restored.

It is tragedy of Russian people, that the people offended by the Soviet authority went to be at war together with Germans against the brothers!

Stalin understood it and has drawn duly conclusions having corrected a rate of communist party.