So there is the combination of the nightmare of the mass murders, mass shootings and the nightmare of the front line.” Read more. 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. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman’s characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war. 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. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. He set out to write the equivalent of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. “Vasily Grossman was himself involved in the battle of Stalingrad, but he was also a frontline spectator of the rest of the war.
Foreign Policy & International Relations The Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate, completed in 1960, is an epic story centered on the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany that marked. Read 1353 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.
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