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Article: Soviet contribution.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
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- New Internationalist
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- January 1, 2007
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It is glaringly apparent that Susan George, judging by her article, 'Whose Europe? Our Europe!' (Europa! NI 394), has no real understanding of the immense contribution made by the Soviet Union in saving Europe and, indeed, the rest of the world from the depravities of German fascism and Japanese militarism.
Of the 50 million deaths in the Second World War, no less than 28 million were Soviet citizens, including 8 million killed in battle. Four million (half being Jewish) perished in extermination and concentration camps while almost ...