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6. Ya. T. Eiduss, Liquid Fuel in War (Moscow: Akademizdat, 1943), 74–75.
7. Halder, War Diary, 2: 534, 536, 574; entries of May 19 and 20, and June 13, 1941.
8. Muller-Hillebrand, German Ground Forces, 1933–1945, 3: 67.
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Epigraph: Joseph Stalin, Pravda, February 5, 1931.
1. I. G. Starinov, Mines Await eir Hour (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1964), 176.
2. Ibid., 186.
3. One can argue that Hitler’s invasion was launched not only from Eastern Prussia and Poland, but from
Finland, Hungary, and Romania as well. is is true. However, the USSR and Hungary did not share a
common border. It was the Red Army who reached the Hungarian border as a result of the “Liberation
March” in September 1939. As a result Hitler was handed an opportunity to attack from that nation’s
territory, which he did in 1941. Before 1941 there were no major German military units in Romania
and Finland. ey were deployed there because of Stalin’s aggression against these countries. In order to
protect themselves against Stalin, the Romanian and Finnish governments allowed German troops to
use their territory.
4. Order of National Commissar of Defense no. 400, November 7, 1940. It was published the same day
in Pravda, Krasnaya Zvezda, and other Soviet newspapers.
5. Stalin’s speech at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, January 22, 1926, published
in Pravda, February 18, 1926.
6. Stalin, Pravda, September 15, 1927.
7. Pravda, March 2, 1936.
8. Pravda, May 14, 1939.
9. Pravda, August 18, 1940.
10. Krivoshein, Warriors’ Stories, 8.
11. Pravda, January 1, 1941.
12. Pravda, March 4, 1941.

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Epigraph: Quoted in Starinov, Mines Await their Hour, 179.
1. Ibid., 18.
2. Ibid., 22.
3. Ibid., 175.
4. Meretskov, In Service to the People, 184.
5. L. M. Sandalov, e Bygone (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1966), 99.
6. Krasnaya Zvezda, September 15, 1984.
7. Zhukov, Memoirs and Reflections, 207.
8. Kievsky Krasnoznamennyii: History of the Krasnoznamennyii Kiev Military District, 1919–1972 (Moscow:
Voyenizdat, 1974), 147.
9. Ibid., 143.
10. Soviet Military Forces (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1978), 255.
11. K. S. Moskalenko, In the Southwestern Direction: A Commander’s Memoirs (Moscow: Nauka, 1969),
24.

Chapter 27
Epigraph: Russian Center for the Archiving and Study of Modern History, Holding 88, Register 1,
Dossier 898, Folio 21.
1. V. I. Boyarskiy, e Guerilla War: A History of Lost Opportunities (Minsk: Harvest; Moscow: ACT,
2001), 60.
2. Starinov, Mines Await eir Hour, 40.
3. P. K. Ponomarenko, VIZh, no. 1 (1962).
4. Although he was an ethnic Lithuanian, and in Lithuanian his last name is spelled “Vaupsas,” in official
documents and historic literature his name was Russified: “Vaupshassov.”