Your book contains direct analogies between us and the Hitl… - Vasily Grossman

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Your book contains direct analogies between us and the Hitlerite fascists. You book incorrectly describes our people, communists. Could we have won the war with the kind of people you describe? In your book you say positive things about religion, God, Catholicism. Your book defends Trotsky. You book is full of doubts about the legitimacy of our Soviet system.

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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (December 12, 1905 – September 14, 1964) was a prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.

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