Stalin's Commandos. Ukrainian Partisan Formations 1941–1944

The ruthless application of scorched earth tactics, the deliberate provocation of reprisals by the occupiers against the civilian population, the destruction of one's own villages, chaotic collection of «food taxes» from the population, supplemented by everyday robbery, drunkenness, debauchery and violence, fratricidal internal conflicts, the use of doping, prompt utilization of weapons of mass destruction, and finally, cannibalism – all of this was not a random consequence of mass bloodshed and was not a spontaneous «popular response» to the cruelty of Nazi domination, but became the necessary manifestations of Stalin's war for annihilation…