From the Second Front to the Bolsheviks: a Conversation with a Subscriber (08.11.2022)

An arranged interview by Vitalii Dribnytsia with a subscriber (a structured monologue-lecture, not a street “roulette”). Key points for the cult of the “Great Victory” / World War II: “second front” is a misleading term of Soviet historiography, since Great Britain had been at war with Germany since September 1939; the Stalinist tradition recognized only the Soviet-German front as the “first,” ignoring North Africa, Italy, the Pacific, and the Atlantic; the scale and significance of the landings in Sicily and Italy in 1943; and the thesis that victory belonged to the anti-Hitler coalition, not “exclusively the USSR.” A segment on the German financing of the Bolsheviks provides additional context. A source for the articles on the cult of the “Great Victory” and World War II.