A Russian View of the Front Line
8th August 1941: Vassily Grossman' impressions of the battlefield
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The Russian journalist Vassily Grossman, accredited by the Soviet government, arrived on the front line on the 7th August 1941. Grossman was by no means a Communist Party man. He knew…
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