From time to time in some media and social networks popular misconceptions about that period emerge.
But the respected historians, whom we turned to for explanations, dispelled these myths, leaving no stone unturned.
Well, for example:
All sensible generals were shot, and those who remained filled Germany with the corpses of our soldiers
“In the nineties, the General Staff commission headed by General Krivosheev worked, which calculated our losses according to the reports of the headquarters of various units and formations, which came to the Central Bureau for the Registration of losses.
The attack on the Kursk Bulge.
Based on these reports, the personal and digital lists of the dead, it was concluded that during the Great Patriotic War, the USSR lost irretrievably (these are demographic military losses, which include the killed, missing, died of wounds and did not return from captivity) 8.6 million person.
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If we take German losses, German troops lost about five million people on the eastern front. Plus or minus, of course. At the end of the war, the Germans did not keep reliable records of losses. If we add the losses of their allies to this figure of German losses, it turns out that the losses of our opponents amount to more than 6.5 million people. In this case, the ratio is 1 to 1.3.
We see here that not two, not three, not four times, not six times, as some of our researchers, for example, Boris Sokolov, argue.
At the same time, the excess of our losses is largely due to the death of our prisoners of war in captivity: more than 60% of our prisoners of war died in German concentration camps.
Of course, in 1941 there was anything, then our losses were many times higher than the German ones, but since the end of 1942 the ratio has often been the opposite,”Mikhail Myagkov explained.
Our prisoners were destroyed in German camps, because the ghoul Stalin did not sign the Geneva Convention
Fans of this statement forget that Germany, unlike the USSR, signed this convention, therefore, it had to take care of prisoners from those countries that did not sign it.
Row of Red Army prisoners of war.
However, this is only a small part of the problem.
Mikhail Myagkov gave a detailed commentary on the prisoners: “The USSR did not sign the Geneva Convention, which, by the way, was due to the fact that this convention provided that prisoners of war would be kept separately according to nationality and personnel, which was unacceptable for our international socialist state.
However, the USSR stated that it would comply with all the rules related to the Hague Conventions, which clearly laid down all the rules for the treatment of prisoners of war: rendering assistance to the wounded and so on.
In addition, after the start of the war, the Soviet Union has repeatedly declared that it will adhere to all the rules related to the maintenance of enemy prisoners on its territory.
Repeatedly through the mouth of both Molotov and our other representatives, he declared that he was protesting against the inhuman detention of our prisoners of war in German camps. Whereas the attitude towards German prisoners in Soviet camps was decent.
When the Germans pursued a policy of mass extermination of Soviet prisoners of war, they pursued it according to their ideological guidelines.
Our soldiers at the beginning of the war were waste material for them: the sooner they die of hunger, disease, cold - the more profitable it was for the Nazis at that time. In 1942, this policy changed somewhat, because Germany needed working hands.
In the worst winter of 41-42, more than 2 million Soviet prisoners of war died in German dungeons.
For comparison: in German camps, more than 60% of our prisoners died, from the armies of the Western allies: Americans, British, about 4% were killed in German camps.
It was a purposeful policy to destroy Soviet prisoners."
Our grandfathers won that war despite Stalin
“This logical conclusion is not entirely clear to me,” says Alexander Dyukov. - You can imagine anything you want as perfect in spite of. For example, that the Soviet Union was created in spite of Lenin, or that the whites lost the civil war in spite of Kolchak.
Soviet tankmen on the IS-2 and T-34 rejoice at the Victory. Berlin, May 9, 1945.
In spite of Khrushchev, they launched a satellite, in spite of Armstrong they landed on the moon. Any action or event, it has causes, consequences and is never committed in spite of something, if it is “in spite of” not the enemy with whom they are fighting during military operations."
Dmitry Stroganov