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Article: The military doctrine of the Red Army on the eve of the Great Patriotic War: myths and facts.
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- Military Thought
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Soviet historiography did not provide a complete picture of the history of the Great Patriotic War. Victories scored by the Red Army oftentimes were excessively praised and glorified, while its failures and lost battles were mentioned only in passing--as a general rule, without any indication as to the original lineup and balance of forces, own losses and mistakes by military leadership, especially in so far as concerned the coverage of the prewar period and the initial period of the war. Ledokol [Icebreaker] by V. Rezun (Suvorov) struck the reader by the unprecedented manner in which it raised pertinent questions, the intensity of accusations made against unshakeable ...