Even the pretense to scholarship has collapsed in the humanities departments of the contemporary university where an attempt to dispell some historical myths would be jeered at and, especially so, if it tarnished the image of the left.
Who is there to tend to the historical record and where can they work?

Thank you, Paul Goble, your work is important and timely.

I agree with "reader" and always look forward to a contribution from Goble.

Anatoly Tsyganok sounds like someone we should get to know. Can anyone out there tell us a little about him?

The comparative casualty statistics reflect the fact that life is cheap under totalitarianism and that Soviet military commanders employed combat tactics involving heavy sacraficial losses.

In Khrustchev's memoires, I recall mention of Soviet losses in the order of a million. I wonder if there is any consensus on this matter?

" - a scenario strikingly similar to the way in which Hitler's Gestapo attacked Poland only three months later".
Hitler attacked Poland on 1. September, 1939. Soviet Union attacked Finland on 30. November, 1939, (the Mainila provocation was a few days before that). Please, mr. Goble, what happened in Poland "three months later", at the end of February 1940, when the war between Germany and Poland was practically over?
Dear mr Goble - I thank you for the article and hope to get a reply.