Ivan’s War (82 page)

Romanovs,
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Rommel, Erwin,
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Rossosh’,
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Rostov-on-Don,
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fall of,
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retaken by Soviets,
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Rotmistrov, General Pavel,
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Rovno,
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Rudneva, Zhenya,
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Rudnya, near Smolensk,
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Russia

deaths under Nazi occupation,
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see also
Soviet Union

Russian civil war (1918–21),
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daily reports and public debates,
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illegal arrests and mass executions,
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and naming of Stalingrad,
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sloganeering days of,
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‘Russian committees’,
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Russian Liberation Army (ROA),
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Russian Revolution (1917),
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Russian ‘soul’,
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Rzhev,
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp,
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Sakhalin,
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samogon
(home brew),
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Samoilov, David,
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amostrel
(self-inflicted wounds),
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Sapun ridge, Crimea,
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memorial,
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schizophrenia,
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Schulenburg, Friedrich, Count von der,
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scurvy,
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secret police,
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Seelow Heights,
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Senyavskaya, Elena,
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Serdyuk (at officer training camp),
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Sevastopol,
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sex

attitudes to,
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lack of availability to Red Army,
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rape,
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Shchelyabug,
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Shevelev, Anatoly,
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show trials,
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shtrafniki
(members of the punishment units),
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Siberians,
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Simferopol,
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Simon, Max, SS general,
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Simonov, Konstantin,
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‘Kill Him!’,
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The Living and the Dead
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‘Wait for Me’,
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Singer Sewing Machine plant, Berlin,
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Sivash marshes,
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slave labour,
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Slesarev, Aleksandr,
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Slesareva, Mariya (Masha),
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Slutsky, Boris,
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small-group loyalty,
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SMERSh,
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Smolensk,
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battle of,
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demobilization in,
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evacuees from,
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recaptured (September 1943),
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Smolensk region,
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sniper training,
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Sokolniki district, Moscow,
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soldiers’ choirs,
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Somme, Battle of the,
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songs,
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‘sons of the regiment’, adoption of,
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South-Western Front,
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Southern Front,
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Soviet air force,
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Soviet armed forces: total number mobilized since 1939,
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Soviet communism

claims credit for spirit that emerged at Stalingrad,
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collapse of,
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confidence in,
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and the Museum of the Revolution,
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the party features as guide and teacher of the masses,
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secret resolution on soldiers’ families,
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sense of duty to the party,
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the sole political outlook,
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Soviets speak only of success,
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Soviet Mongolia,
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Soviet propaganda,
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Soviet Union

attitudes to women,
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barter economy,
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collapse of,
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economic growth,
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five-year plans,
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as Hitler’s ally in, 1939,
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Katyn Massacre,
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largest engineering industry in Europe,
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and monetary cost of the war,
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revival of manufacturing,
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secures a pre-eminent place in world affairs,
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Soviet members of minority ethnic groups deported,
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statistics of Soviet lives lost,
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victory over fascism,
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and Warsaw Uprising,
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Sovinformburo,
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Sozh river,
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Spanish civil war (1936),
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Spassky Gates, Moscow,
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Special Forces’ radio headquarters, Moscow,
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Special Section,
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SS,
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‘Adolf Hitler Guards’,
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advance on Moscow,
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at Maidanek,
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in Berlin,
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‘Death’s Head’ units,
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and German offensive on Kursk,
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German soldiers attitude to,
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Stalin, Joseph,
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attitude to Poland,
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authorizes camps for special prisoners,
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and Belarus,
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in Baku, as ‘Koba’,
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carrot and stick of the dictatorship,
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congratulates the troops,
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ethnic cleansing,
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and German offensive at Kursk,
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god-like status,
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ignorance about,
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ignores warning of German invasion,
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important speech after German attacks (3 July 1941),
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Khrushchev’s denunciation of him,
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in Lvov,
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mass reproduction of his image,
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