Pages of History (May): Road to the Reichstag

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Don’t pretend as if the former gets any significant attention.
The need to cherry pick and the strong disregard to external events are clear indicators.
Events such as the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact are told from a victim’s perspective, a desperate measure to buy time against the Germans instead of the opportunistic take it was.

You are too focused on names.

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Stepan Andreevich Neustroev — what was so heroic about him? He was just the commander of a unit that staged the flag-raising over the ruins for the third time for show. The so-called ‘Victory Banner’ that Russians obsess over is basically fake.
After the war, he worked for the repressive apparatus of Stalin’s USSR.