So there is the combination of the nightmare of the mass murders, mass shootings and the nightmare of the front line.” Read more. Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed 'the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within', writes Nicholas Barrett, for the second in. They were joined in that by other nationalities who did their dirty work for them as well. Not to get rid of the partisans but because they were eliminating the Jews, eliminating Ukrainians and eliminating anyone who was going to get in the way of their conquering these countries. Of course, behind the German army was the Nazi regime, the Holocaust, not just of the Jews but the massacres taking place as the German army advanced, committing mass murder of the civil populations they overran. Well, he didn’t quite succeed in doing that, but it is nonetheless an amazing and terrifying account, not simply of the battles, but of the armies fighting them. He set out to write the equivalent of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. “Vasily Grossman was himself involved in the battle of Stalingrad, but he was also a frontline spectator of the rest of the war. Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.
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