The content in this book is truly shocking. It tells of barbaric acts that make you want to turn away.

But Ivan and others who lived in such a hellish world also shed tears.

The misdeeds committed by Ivan and his colleagues are unforgivable. However, merely impeaching them will not solve anything.

Why did this happen, and what did Ivan and his friends suffer and shed tears over? I felt that it is important to find out the answers to these questions in order to prevent the repetition of the same history.

Their goal was Berlin, Hitler's stronghold. Wherever they went, the Soviet soldiers committed acts of tyranny.

The atrocities committed by the invading Nazis were indeed appalling. In response, the Soviet soldiers, eager to be an eye for an eye, repeatedly looted, murdered, and raped their way into the invasion.

I even wondered if I should blog about this content. The same is true of what I will be describing from here on. The book reveals facts that make you want to turn away.

However, I want to caution you against thinking that these acts are only about Soviet soldiers and have nothing to do with us. If we look at it as "the Soviet soldiers are just crazy," then the book has a completely different meaning. We must not forget that in the extreme conditions of war, we all can become like this.

In 1943, the Soviet Union finally gained the upper hand. From here, politicians created war myths to further boost public morale.

Facts were interpreted and myths were created to suit the Soviet government. Anything that did not conform was silenced.

And such historical management would continue throughout the postwar period.

Put a lid on what you don't want to see. This is something we all want to do. This is especially true when it comes to what one has committed under the extreme conditions of war. Stalin took advantage of this human weakness.

Kill after kill, one after another, they charge at you without fear of death. There is no greater fear than this.

The reckless assault is devastating, and the Soviet soldiers retreat, but to their surprise, the Soviet command now slaughters the retreating soldiers.

In the Soviet army, retreat was not an option. As I will show later, there was an ironclad order to fight to the death. Therefore, soldiers who withdrew and returned were killed as a violation of military regulations.

Soviet soldiers were overrun by Nazi soldiers, and if they fled, they would in turn be killed by Soviet troops.

Thus, the bodies of countless soldiers on the front lines were piled up one after another. With the cry of "Ullah! was the cry of the soldiers as they were being carried out by sea.

In Bloodland: The Truth About Hitler and Stalin's Genocide, we will reveal that the tragedy of the genocide that occurred during the German-Soviet War was made more tragic by the interrelationship between the Nazis and the Soviet Union. Although Nazi atrocities alone tend to be highlighted in world history, they do not provide a complete picture of Nazi actions.

The book is unique in that it looks at the reality of the Holocaust from the larger perspective of the Nazis and the Soviet Union.

The great thing about this book is that it doesn't simply dismiss it as "the Nazis were abnormal, cruel, and bad people," but instead looks at the bigger picture and why humans did what they did.