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Soviet wounded to be left untreated

24th September 1941: Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg on German General's orders

Sep 24, 2021
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Soviet wounded to be left untreated

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The ‘Red Star’, newspaper of the Red Army.

Ilya Ehrenburg was a Russian novelist and writer who emerged as a talented propaganda writer for the Soviet publications ‘Red Star’ ( Krasnaya Zvezda - the Red Army newspaper) and Pravda (‘Truth’ - the Communist Party Newspaper) during the war. His bitter mocking of the Germans and the Nazis was widely read and …

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