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076044
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State Defence Committee Decree Number 1497 of 26 March 1942, around extracts from which this short article is based, gives details of Soviet distribution of 'Lend-lease' equipment and supplies delivered by the Arctic convoy PQ-12 in March 1942. The extracts, with supporting notes, provide a rare glimpse of the use to which the Soviet Union put such aid during the spring and summer of 1942.
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076045
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2006.
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This selection, the concluding part of a five-part memoir of his experiences as a Red Army soldier during World War II, contains Aleksei Maslov's recollections of his experiences after being liberated by Allied forces from a German prisoner-of-war camps. After falling captive in July 1942 during the Wehrmacht's advance to Stalingrad, Maslov suffered through two years of imprisonment in POW camps in German-occupied territories and Germany itself before being assigned work as a slave laborer in the German war economy. Once liberated, Maslov spent time in British internment camps in northern Germany and England before being returned to his Homeland. His candid description of his treatment upon his return to the Soviet Union, in particular, his interrogations by Soviet counterintelligence organs, demonstrated how a vindictive Stalin nation welcomed home those few of his Red Army's few heroes who survived German captivity.
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056945
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076042
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2006.
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This article's principal conclusion is twofold: First, that the creation and sustenance of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War was part of Stalin's goal of linking the Loyalist cause with that of the Soviet Union and international communism, a component of a larger geo-strategic gamble which sought to create united opposition to fascist aggression, one which might eventually bring Moscow and the West into a closer alliance. The second conclusion is that the deployment of the Brigades, like the broader projection of Soviet power and influence into the Spanish theater, was an overly ambitious operational failure whose abortive retreat is indicative of the basic weakness of the Stalinist regime in the years prior to the Second World War.
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076043
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