Worth recalling from the intro of The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
From Stephen E. Ambrose's review...and yes, I know about that
This idea is still doing the rounds 54 yrs later
Again can see much the same happening more recently
1966 for this review...
The questions raised here as still being kicked about, as are Soviet motivations in 1945 -- the history of WW2 wasn't suddenly politicised in the last 10 yrs
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