So there is the combination of the nightmare of the mass murders, mass shootings and the nightmare of the front line.” Read more. A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II. They were joined in that by other nationalities who did their dirty work for them as well. Not to get rid of the partisans but because they were eliminating the Jews, eliminating Ukrainians and eliminating anyone who was going to get in the way of their conquering these countries. Of course, behind the German army was the Nazi regime, the Holocaust, not just of the Jews but the massacres taking place as the German army advanced, committing mass murder of the civil populations they overran. Well, he didn’t quite succeed in doing that, but it is nonetheless an amazing and terrifying account, not simply of the battles, but of the armies fighting them. He set out to write the equivalent of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. “Vasily Grossman was himself involved in the battle of Stalingrad, but he was also a frontline spectator of the rest of the war. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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