Stalin's Falcons: Exposing the Myth of Soviet Aerial Superiority over the Luftwaffe in WW2

275 pp. The Soviet history of the Second World War, written under the conditions of a totalitarian regime, reflected all its features, with the result that it includes solid sets of patriotic fables that have no connection with reality. Many of the events of the war were distorted beyond recognition or even made up from beginning to end.