The Great Patriotic War - A Book Review

A copiously footnoted and documented book, including what mc mekin says is a large amount of new information. In fact, he seems to suspect histor s have exaggerated soviet war deaths. He means that the war was desired by stalen as a direct result of his marxus leninous principles. It hugely benefited stalen while benefiting nobody else at all. This is no surprise. Mc me goes through the stages of world war too, but he begins by going all the way back to 19 17. And the years immediately following when the bolshevik regime set the nvariant patent for all its future interactions with the west. All was overlaid with the crucial goal of