Stalin took one single painting with him to Tehran Conference in 1943, both Churchill and FDR have been stunned by it. By then, the outcome of WW II was not in doubt--the Red Army was on the offensive. But... Plastov's painting called The Fascist Flew Over conveyed what war on the Eastern Front looked like...
Here is this picture...
Understanding what is on this picture is beyond the grasp of West's military-political "elite", because all of them fly in this disappearing Luftwaffe fighter in the upper-right corner of this painting. Out of 27 million Soviet people killed in WW II--16 million have been civilians.
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