Writing Russia by Melissa-Ellen Dowling

Author:Melissa-Ellen Dowling [Dowling, Melissa-Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Historiography
ISBN: 9781000411751
Google: wVEwEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-18T01:40:43+00:00

Fine Analysis

Charles Ziegler, The History of Russia (2009), p. 87.

Most Soviet [Citizens? Military?] people fought fiercely in defense of their

homeland. Military historian William Fuller (in Gregory Freeze, ed., Russia:

A History) claims that the Soviet Union [state] was fairly even with

Germany [state] in both weapons and men at the start of the war; Germany’s

[state] initial successes were due in large part to failures of leadership in the

Soviet [government] regime and to the vast destruction visited on Soviet

society in the 1930s. It is a telling comment on Stalin’s cruelties that in many

parts of Ukraine [territory], Belorussia [territory], and the Baltics [territory],

the Germans [military] were welcomed as potential liberators. Peasants often

met the advancing German [military] troops with the traditional Slavic

[culture] welcome of bread and salt. It is also estimated that about 1 million

defected and served the Axis war machine in various capacities. However, the

barbaric treatment of Slavs [ethnicity], classified as sub-humans fit only for

slave labor by Hitler’s racial scheme, quickly turned the population against

the invaders. Jews and Communist Party officials fared the worst – they were

shot, while others were herded into concentration camps.

Nazi atrocities encouraged the Soviet [citizens? Military?] people to fight

doggedly, either in the regular forces or in partisan detachments, and this

determined resistance contributed to the eventual defeat of the Germans [military? State?].

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