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The lessons of the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union are of contemporary relevance. The same contradictions of world capitalism threaten to plunge the world into the inferno of a third world war. #22июня #мыпомним

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The main concern of this lecture is not the specific conflicts and events that triggered World War II, but rather the war’s more general causes.

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"Here we encounter a terrible problem: For all that has been said and written about the #Holocaust, it remains a strangely obscure event"

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"No other unit of the Red Army had as many international connections as the Red Cossacks. It was a genuinely international army, with soldiers coming from Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Germany and other countries."

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“Russia is to be reduced to the level of a nation of peasants, from which there is no return”

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"Scenes of horrifying violence are followed by scenes that are humorous, poetic and tender. His depictions of the many who knowingly went to their deaths, defending the Soviet Union, are outstanding." #Stalingrad

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Lena Mukhina had witnessed as a student the first year of the German Wehrmacht’s blockade of Leningrad. Her diary was discovered in archives by Russian historians only a few years ago and was first published in Russian in 2011.

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"The anniversary of such a world-historic cataclysm should obviously be the occasion for sober reflection, the studying of the lessons of the events and acting upon them in order to prevent the outbreak of yet another world war"

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Defend the Soviet Union!
Socialist Workers Party
23 June 1941

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In this brilliant essay, written eight weeks into the Nazi war against the Soviet Union, John G. Wright, a close collaborator of Leon #Trotsky, outlined the basic dynamics of the war and its impact on Soviet society. #22июня #мыпомним

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Sound the alarm! Political conspiracy and the resurgence of fascism in Germany

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Today historians are again labouring to rewrite and falsify history in order to justify new wars and discredit opposition to them. #Baberowski #NazisRaus #Nazis

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The appointment of Adolf Hitler in January 1933 as Chancellor of Germany was the outcome not of an election, but of a political conspiracy involving a small number of senior military and government officials.

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The Trump coup and the rise of fascism: Where is America going?
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