Two Essays: Coming Up From Behind or How the Soviet Union Won the War and If World Domination is the Aim then Strike First!

by Mark Solonin

Mark Solonin is a Russian aviation engineer and historian. He was born in Kuybyshev (now Samara) on 29 May 1958.
It has been said that history consists of “fables that men have agreed to admit as true” (Voltaire) or “a series of lies agreed upon” (Wendell Phillips).
This remains true to this day, in particular when it comes to the history of WW2.
In these two essays, Solonin subjects these fables/lies to an assault by known and indisputable facts. The result is a stunning new perspective.
The first essay—How the Soviet Union Won the War—provides a new, fascinating and cogent explanation of how the Red Army, after being initially routed by the armies of its ally (under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which had enabled those two powers to partition Poland between them), eventually found itself on the side of the victors. In the process, Solonin, with assured control of the facts, dismantles established legends of WW2 and gives us in their place a shockingly new and most convincing narrative.
The second essay—Strike First!—follows the same course and re-examines the activities of the USSR’s military and government in the years before the war. Using recently declassified and unearthed documents, Solonin once again convincingly leads the reader to see and understand the Soviet Union’s plans and motivations in a light that is strikingly different from the common view that has been allowed to form and has since been left surprisingly unquestioned.
Mark Solonin is the author of several best-selling books in Russian that freshly analyse the history of the Second World War (the Soviet Great Fatherland War). As a result, he now finds himself obliged for his personal safety to live in exile.
He is the author of The Spring Stalin’s Glossed Over Crime, also available on Amazon.

102 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2021

About the author

Russian historian, and author who writes about the history of World War II. An aviation engineer by training, he has written numerous books on the Second World War. Since 2016, Solonin lives in Estonia