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By the time the British ano Amercar landed in Normandy in June 1944 Hitler had already lost the war. In the battle of Stalingrad, from August 1942 to January 1943, the core of the German army had been crushed.
In the battle of Kursk in July to August 1943 the largest tank tought in history the offensive in the East was German COULLCL destroyed When the 'allies' landed in France it was not to dereal finei but to make sure that the soviel armies cra not overturn fascism in the whole of Europe.
The costs of this strug SCLO the Soviet Union were however almost calculable. Twenty million people were killed. the 'Battle of Britain', terrible civil war in the twentieth century.
Somewhere between twenty million TelE people died in the struggle to drive out the foreign armies and their Russian SUDPULLCES But why should imperialism twice vent such incredible attacks on the USSR? According to the explanation of the governof Britain, the teresting new explanations WICH Calle OU. December in the American magazine Newsweek. It has Speer known for years that the United States government knew in advance of the BOVe Czechoslovakia. But they said not one word to warn the Czech people.
But about Poland? Reagan expressed his terrible shock at the imPoland in December 1981 gred crusade for liberty and demanded *let Poland be Poland' that CYCLYOLL But did what happen come US government? any big surprise to the plaining detail how United States intelligence in roland workca prior to martial law Newsweek admits 'In September, Polish authorities sent the order for a military crackdown - along with leaflets pro claiming martial law to the Soviet Union to be printed .. when the operation order and the leatlets arrived back in the colonel (a US informe in the Polish army) seni them to the CIA But as the US govern ment knew weeks in ad vance that martial law was going to be imposed why didn't it warn the people such as Solidarity whom they supposedly had "defenders of miberty is such sympathy motive then you'll believe anything Threats in fact and Poland reveal is what is capitalism's real objection to the Soviet Union. It has never i he Soviet leader against ships The United States, as we have SCCI. CLUSCE CLY Y CULELELLE to the Czech or Polish peo ple concerning the threats to them.
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veritable industry of retormist intellectuals wrote glowing books about Savourably hiomparin Stalin prac ticality compared to the
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