The historian, whose book about Stalingrad was banned in Ukraine, denies the use of the NKVD information

The British historian Anthony Bivor, whose book Stalingrad was banned for importing to Ukraine, denies the use of the NKVD information in it. This is what the authorities explained by the ban on documentary historical research. Bivor in an interview with The Guardian called the ban "Absolutely outrageous."

“Stalingrad” was banned for importing to Ukraine along with the epics about Russian heroes and a couple of books by Boris Akunin.

The Ukrainian publication "New Time" gives a quote from a book that did not like the officials of GOSTELEDIO, and their motivation. The representative of the department Sergei Oleinik said: “For example, there was a moment on one of its pages, I quote literally:“ In order to spare the feelings of the SS SS, to shoot children, we were not guided by Ukrainian nationalists. ”We do not know that such facts were considered on the Nuremberg Tribunal, that is, these are some provocative fables. When we tested the author’s sources, it turned out that he used the source as a source as a source as a source. reports of the NKVD and official correspondence of its employees. "

Judging by The Guardian, Bivor, judging by the interview, is outraged by how Ukrainian officials were superficially read by his book. He claims that both the English -language original and the Russian translation clearly indicate the source - these are the memoirs of the German antinacist, Colonel Helmut Groskurt. "The source is this very brave and religious officer who decisively protested, despite the threats that they would tell Gimmler (the Reichsfuhrer) of Himmler ... against the executions of children ... Soviet (union) could not know about this at all," Biwor claims.

The British historian and writer Anthony Bivor is the author of the books "Stalingrad" and "Fall of Berlin. 1945". The attention of the world scientific community these works attracted mainly due to the episodes of cruelty and violence from the Soviet troops described in them in relation to the population of Germany. The most famous is the assertion of the author that German women were subjected to mass rape from Russian soldiers. The discussions around the books and articles of Bivor have been ongoing since their publication (1998 and 2002). Criticism of the historian has repeatedly made both Russian scientists and journalists and Western ones.

In Russia, Bivore books took up the books of Bivor in 2015: then they began to be removed from libraries in the Sverdlovsk region.