We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published. - Vasily Grossman

It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.

We would only multiply the number of victims. Our duty is to strengthen the state and defend the people, why, then, should we publish your book.

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.