Vladimir Pozner: “In my opinion, it was Stalin who almost ruined the country”
“So, exactly seventy-four years ago, on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. As a result of absolutely heroic efforts, the German war machine was defeated and the world was saved from Nazism. But at what a terrifying cost! According to official data, the USSR lost 27 million people - almost four times more than Germany. The Germans reached Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. How do you think these terrible losses can be explained?