Translator’s Note: Within a number of not too complimentary Western (bourgeois) accounts of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-1945) – it is often stated (without credible

Translator’s Note: Within a number of not too complimentary Western (bourgeois) accounts of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-1945) – it is often stated (without credible
Author’s Note: Russian-language records contained in the Soviet Archive (now available online) state that when the Soviet Red Army swept through the Ukraine in 1944,