06.05.2015, Strategic
Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)
The West continues to disavow the
USSR’s momentous contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and her satellites.
But there is documentary proof that can refute any speculation on this subject.
Suffice it to point to the economic price of the victory won by the people of
the Soviet Union.
The war caused an astronomical
level of financial damages to the USSR. On Nov. 2, 1942, the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree establishing the Extraordinary State
Commission for Identifying and Investigating Crimes Perpetrated by the
German–Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices, and the Damage Inflicted by Them
on the Citizens, Collective Farms, Social Organizations, State Enterprises, and
Institutions of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, that
commission published the following statistics: the German-Fascist invaders and
their accomplices razed 1,710 towns and more than 70,000 villages and hamlets,
depriving approximately 25 million people of shelter. They destroyed about
32,000 factories, 84,000 schools and other educational institutions, and
demolished and looted 98,000 collective farms.1In addition, they
