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The first victim of war is truth. It suffered the same fate in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. So, for example, under Brezhnev it was decided to collect and publish in a single volume all the reports of the government’s wartime news agency, Sovinformburo, as a way of marking one of the jubilees of the victory over Nazi Germany. But the idea had to be abandoned after people actually began reading the reports and realised they would need so many corrections, changes and refutations.
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Lazarev, L. (1993). Russian Literature on the War and Historical Truth. In: Garrard, J., Garrard, C. (eds) World War 2 and the Soviet People. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22796-9_2
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