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25. History of the Second World War, 1939–1945, 11: 197.
26. Ibid., 11: 196.
27. Krasnaya Zvezda, September 26, 2000.
28. VIZh, no. 8 (1985): 16.
29. History of the Second World War, 1939–1945, 11: 195.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., 196.
32. Central Archive of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, Fund 210, Index 3116, Case 294,
Sheet 70.
33. Krasnaya Zvezda, August 5, 1995.
34. VIZh, no. 6 (1986): 18.
35. Krasnaya Zvezda, September 1, 2000.
36. Suddenness in Offensive Operations of the Great Patriotic War (Moscow: Nauka, 1986), 51.
37. VIZh, no. 8 (1975): 19.
38. VIZh, no. 8 (1971): 68.
39. Krasnaya Zvezda, September 26, 2000.
40. Declaration of the Soviet leadership on August 8, 1945.
41. General I. Tretyak, VIZh, no. 8 (1985): 12.
42. Krasnaya Zvezda, September 26, 2000.
43. Ivanov, e Beginning Period of the War, 281.
44. Colonel A. S. Savin, VIZh, no. 8 (1985): 56.
45. Communist, no. 12 (1985): 85
46. Joseph Stalin, speech at the Eighteenth Communist Party Congress, March 10, 1939.
47. Soviet Tank Troops, 1941–1945 (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1973), 308.
48. Krasnaya Zvezda, August 5, 1995.
49. Von Mellentin, Tank Battles, 1939–1945 (St. Petersburg: Poligon, 1998), 249.
50. VIZh, no. 8 (1975): 25.
51. VIZh, no. 38 (1985): 45.
52. VIZh, no. 10 (1975): 70, 73.
53. Soviet Military Encyclopedia, 2: 27.

Conclusion
Epigraph: Nikita Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception for foreign diplomats and journalists, November
1956.
1. e Year 1941, 1: 377.
2. Ibid., 383.
3. Formally, besides the USSR, two more countries expanded their borders as a result of World War II:
Yugoslavia and Poland. Yugoslavia got a significant chunk of land—practically the whole Istri (with the
exception of Trieste), and Zadar (Zara). Poland’s borders moved westward, while a wide swath of Polish
territory in the east was seized by the USSR. e size of the territory Poland acquired in the west is quite
comparable to that lost in the east. On the other hand, in 1945 both Poland and Yugoslavia were loyal
satellites of the Soviet Union. It was expected that in the near future both nations would become a part
of the USSR. us, one way or another, in terms of territorial expansion, Stalin benefited from World
War II.
4. e Soviet Union on the International Conferences during the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, vol. 6,
“Berlin (Potsdam) Conference of the ree Leaders of the Allied Powers—USSR, USA, and Great
Britain (July 17–August 2, 1945)” (Moscow: Politizdat, 1984), 131–34, 310–11.
5. Ibid., 149.
6. Ibid.
7. Krasnaya Zvezda, April 27, 2002.
8. Krasnaya Zvezda, December 22, 1999.