The Soviet army and
people responded .. .

Although more than a quarter
of a century has passed since
the end of World War 2, its

events are still stirring the
minds of millions of people of
different generations throughout
the world. Reverting to these
events again and again, they
strive to understand better the
cause and sources of the victo-
ry which the Allies of the Anti-
Hitler Coalition won over the
fascists.

The immensity of World War
2 is explained not only by the
large-scale military clashes be-
tween the two groups of states.
It was, above all, determined by
the irreconcilability of the ideo-
logical struggle between them.
Assessing the results of the war
it should be’ noted that in this
battle the forces of socialism,
represented by the Soviet
Union, defeated the shock force
of world imperialism — Hitler’s
Germany and its allies.

Bourgeois historians ignore

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in their works this most impor-
tant aspect of World War 2.
They are doing it deliberately,
for, not disdaining to distort and
falsify facts, the apologists of
bourgeois society pursue the

political aim of justifying im-

perialism’s present day aggres-
sive policy, rehabilitating their
former military enemies, re-
tarding the world revolutionary
and national-liberation move-
ment. The reactionary histor-
ians of the West and, above all,
the American historians exert
every effort to belittle the
Soviet Union’s decisive role in
defeating fascism.

In multi-volume _ scientific
works, in memoirs of generals

_and admirals, in countless art-

icles and popular illustrated
publications, which have ap-
peared in the West in the post-
war period, one can trace one
common tendency — the desire
to exaggerate in every possible
way the significance of the mili-
tary effort of the Western

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 2,:1971—PAGE 6

Thirty years ago, on June 22, 1941, the fascist
hordes of German imperialism perfidiously invad-
ed the Soviet Union. How in the ensuing gigantic
struggle, the forces of socialism represented by
the Soviet Union smashed the shock force of world
imperialism is related here by Colonel Anatoly
Korkeshkin, Editor-in-chief of Soviet Military
Review:

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certain western historians in
general keep quiet, or, some-
times, casually mention some-
thing about the decisive battles

powers, and to deprecate the
greatness of the victories scor-
ed by the Soviet Army, to slur
the military skill of its officers
and men, and to conceal the of World War 2 — the battles
real reasons for the crushing of Moscow, Stalingrad and
setback sustained by the giant Kursk — whereas, at the same

fascist war machine. time, the importance of the
= oe i _ operations of the Western
she: Military historical. 9er Powers in North Africa and

vice of the U.S. Army directly
vested the American military
historians with the task of sub-
stantiating and propagandizing
the deliberately false and un-
grounded tenet, as if the Soviet
armed forces were not the main
architect of the victory in World
War 2. And this is neither the
first year, nor the first day that
such: attempts are being made.

John Snell, an American pro-
fessor alleges, for exainple, that
since December 1941 the Unit-
ed States became the leading
force of the coalition. And E.
Zimke, a military historian on
the Pentagon’s payroll, declares
rather arrogantly that~ Soviet
strategy was restrained and,
psychologically, defensive.

The unseemly aims of falsify-
ing history are also served when

Millions of people were made homeless, vict!

lin the grim days ll
1941, nazi troops st
gates of Moscow. Th
ready planning the
parade.” Our photo
Red Army marching P0
Square, November 7; 1™

Italy is immeasurably?
ated.

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Soviet Union on Jungs
the German imperialiSBigy
to seize the territory
of the USSR, to dest
cialist system, to WIP
lions of Soviet people
the survivors into sla

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gaining world do
was not accidental th
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of its armed forces
“drang nach osten
strength and technic
ped divisions, includilt
ored and 14 motoria
all, together with thé
satellite nations, the

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despatched to the Sovif™
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defensive fighting,

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fighting, the fascist
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