Russia: 75th anniversary of the great victory — shared responsibility to history and our future

Third of five parts

OBVIOUSLY, there was no alternative. Otherwise, the USSR would face seriously increased risks because — I will say this again — the old Soviet-Polish border ran only within a few tens of kilometers from Minsk. The country would have to enter the inevitable war with the Nazis from very disadvantageous strategic positions, while millions of people of different nationalities, including the Jews living near Brest and Grodno, Przemyśl, Lvov and Wilno, would be left to die at the hands of the Nazis and their local accomplices — anti-Semites and radical nationalists.