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The Price of Victory: The Red Army’s Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2018‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics’: Apocryphally attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, perhaps no quote better sums up the difficulties in calculating Soviet casualties during The Great Patriotic War.
Timothy Heck
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2011
My father was a Bolshevik partisan; he didn’t want to keep his father’s surname—a tsarist colonel and White Army soldier. He was the illegitimate child of this colonel, an aristocrat, and his governess. After his wife’s death, Colonel Lutin married my grandmother and gave my father a first-class education.
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My father was a Bolshevik partisan; he didn’t want to keep his father’s surname—a tsarist colonel and White Army soldier. He was the illegitimate child of this colonel, an aristocrat, and his governess. After his wife’s death, Colonel Lutin married my grandmother and gave my father a first-class education.
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Foreign Affairs, 1928
TWO preliminary observations are necessary to this study of the armed forces of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub lics. First of all, one must bear in mind that statistics pre pared in Soviet Russia are often unreliable and even dishonest. Bolsheviks themselves make sarcastic comments on this fact.
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TWO preliminary observations are necessary to this study of the armed forces of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub lics. First of all, one must bear in mind that statistics pre pared in Soviet Russia are often unreliable and even dishonest. Bolsheviks themselves make sarcastic comments on this fact.
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The Red Army and the Soviet Literature
Royal United Services Institution. Journal, 1924(1924). The Red Army and the Soviet Literature. Royal United Services Institution. Journal: Vol. 69, No. 476, pp. 732-746.
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2020
Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret Services, the military kommandaturas, Soviet occupation policies, the withdrawal of troops in 1955 ...
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Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret Services, the military kommandaturas, Soviet occupation policies, the withdrawal of troops in 1955 ...
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Emotions and Psychological Survival in the Red Army, 1941–42
, 2021Matthew E. Lenoe
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Blackfriars, 1946
We all know Tommy Atkins. In two wars he has become symbolic of the British soldier. We know what he thinks, how he will react to most events, and his general likes and dislikes. He has been hailed as ‘Britain’s best ambassador’. In foreign countries his demeanour has been one of kindly tolerance, cheerfulness, and some degree of self-effacement.
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We all know Tommy Atkins. In two wars he has become symbolic of the British soldier. We know what he thinks, how he will react to most events, and his general likes and dislikes. He has been hailed as ‘Britain’s best ambassador’. In foreign countries his demeanour has been one of kindly tolerance, cheerfulness, and some degree of self-effacement.
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