Stalin's War of Extermination 1941-1945 : Planning, Realization and Documentation

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Summary: A must for the serious history student
Review: Another piece in the missing history of World War Two. Basically this book goes on to destroy the myths held and propagated by left-wingers that the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was peace loving and had no intention of military operations on foreign soil. It also absolutely destroys the myths of the "Great Patriotic War," "Mass Heroism," and "Soviet Patriotism" by the Soviet peoples. The book begins with the declaration by Stalin a war of aggression he intends to wage against the capitalists Germany and Western Europe. It details the propaganda and above all the absolute terror used by the Soviets against there own unwilling soldiers in order to fight the Germans. Basically the Red Army soldier had two choices, either face the Germans or get a bullet in the back of the neck by the NKVD and severe consequences for his relatives. The author lays out all the propaganda used to incite extreme hatred of everything German, to criminalize the Wehrmacht, blame Soviet crimes on the Germans, and to dehumanize the Germans into vermin. The book also covers the Soviet mistreatment of POW's, both German, Axis, and repatriated Red Army soldiers. How the Soviets ordered that all prisoners of war should be shot, and that surrendering to the enemy is a crime. The most disturbing is the chapters covering the events of Soviet occupation of German soil starting in the fall of 1944. The actions taken by the Red Army soldiers upon the "liberated" German civilian population, murder, arson, rape, and looting, is beyond belief. I highly encourage anyone to read this book, especially those students of history like myself.

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Summary: A must read
Review: As a WW II history buff I had never come across any data on the USSR except for the meetings with Churchill and Roosevelt. I have now changed my perspective after reading this book. Although not
a primer anyone with a basic knowledge of WW II names and places is a suitable audience. This is not an accounting of the battles or any other detail. I had never known Stalin as the monster that he was. At times I found myself rooting for the Germans. Not because they were the good guys but because Stalin and company
were so much worse. What the Communist leaders did to their own military men to get them to fight is nearly unbelievable.
You will also learn their mass murdering and butchering started long before the Germans. Read and you decide.

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Summary: Nazi revisionism
Review: Joseph Goebbels seems somehow to be writing books from hell! Never have I read such an eloquent exposition of the sufferings of those poor, poor Naz...oh- I mean Germans at the hands of those mean, mean commies. After their benevolent invasion and occupation of the USSR the Germans definitely deserved better! That poor misundertood pacifist Hitler was outfoxed by that mean ol' Uncle Joe! Barbarossa was just a "pre-emptive" perfectly reasonable police action! Communism IS worse than Nazism! I get it! Sieg Hei...oh- I mean Deutschland uber alles!

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Summary: Revisionist propaganda
Review: Nobody is saying that Stalin and company where bad men. Yet the USSR's people were the main victims of his dictatorial policies. I do not know of any such murderous policies (although very repressive) against the countries occupied by the Soviet Union. Let us also consider the fact that 3.5 million out of 5.6 million Red Army POW's were murdered, 16 million Soviet civilians killed, a racial war of annhiliation launched. The Soviet Union perpretrated nothing of the sort on the German population. The limited rape, looting, and plunder on German soil was understandable though it was not deliberately perpetrated nor was it officially encouraged. This virulent anti-Soviet propaganda has become very popular with neo-Nazis and the crazy cold warriors but is somewhat tolerated unlike Holocaust revisionism.As Iosif Stalin said as early as 1942: "Hitler's come and go but the German people continue on".

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Summary: A Must Read
Review: This is a perfect book for those pro-german biased that want to cover the horror that this Country has spread in all Europe killing and killing millions of people considered untermenschen (Jews, Slavs, Gypsies and so on ).
I've never read a bunch of lies as in this book. It seems has been written with a group of negationists like Irving.

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Summary: Finally the truth be told!
Review: While not forgiving the horrible crimes committed by certain criminals in the German Armed forces this book tells the true story of our "Beloved" ally Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a monster just waiting to pounce on all of Europe like he did to Finland except Hitler beat him to the punch and probably saved Europe.(Just look at what the Communist did to all of their other conquest!) The attrocities that the Communist regime perpetrated against the Armed forces of Germany and innocent civilians are a chapter of history that the victors convieniently choose not to remember. Anybody that truly has an open mind will see why we had to spend billions of dollars defending against these criminals in the 50+ years after the end of the war.