We took notice of Sydney Kaye’s letter (Don’t fall for Soviet spin, on September 15). The author’s blatant disregard for the ultimate sacrifice of the Soviet people made to defeat Nazism during the Second World War is truly baffling. Twenty-seven million — soldiers and civilians, adults and children — gave their lives so we could live in a world where race and nationality is one’s identity, not a death sentence. The author, however, brands this as a “myth”. To separate myth from historical truth, why not tell the story of the Soviet diplomacy of the second half of 1930s, which was a continuous attempt to establish an anti-Hitler coalition, hampered by the European powers busy pacifying the German aggressor. This “pacification” resulted in their Munich Collusion with Hitler and division of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Why not mention that the Soviet Union was the last country to sign the often-referred to Non-Aggression Pact with Germany in 1939, doing so only after attempts to create a u...
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