The War & Myth: Unknown WWII (англ.)

The War Myths
Myth 1. The Great Patriotic War
Myth 2. The Soviet Union Was Always an Ruthless Opponent of Nazi Germany
Myth 3. The USSR Consistently Fought for Peace and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Was a Forced Move
Myth 4. The War Started on 22 June 1941 for Ukraine
Myth 5. Stalin Did Not Coordinate Any Fighting with Hitler
Myth 6. Stalin was the First to Unite the Ukrainian Nation and the Denunciation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Would Lead to the Disintegration of Ukraine
Myth 7. “Golden September” – Ukrainians Welcomed the Arrival of Soviet Troops
Myth 8. The Nazis Committed the Executions of Poles in Katyn
Myth 9. The USSR and the Third Reich were Not Allies from 1939–1941
Myth 10. In 1941 the Soviet Union Was Not Preparing for a War
Myth 11. The Wehrmacht Was Stronger Than the Red Army at the Outbreak of the War
Myth 12. Nazi Germany Attacked the USSR “Treacherously, Without Declaring War”
Myth 13. The German-Fascist Aggressors
Myth 14. The Largest Tank Battle of the War Took Place near Prokhorovka in 1943
Myth 15. The Dnieper Hydroelectric Dam in Zaporizhia, Khreshchatyk Street and the Assumption Cathedral in Kyiv Were Destroyed by the Nazis
Myth 16. Sevastopol – "The City of Russian Glory"
Myth 17. The “Death Match” in Kyiv Finished With the Killing of the Soviet Team
Myth 18. The Nazis took Black Soil from Ukraine in Wagon Trains
Myth 19. The Nazi Ost Plan Involved the Destruction of All Slavs
Myth 20. The Communist Party – a Leadership of Strength, Creator of the Great Victory
Myth 21. Panfilov’s Twenty-Eight Guardsmen
Myth 22. The Western Lend-Lease Aid Program Was Negligible
Myth 23. Ukrainians – Collaboration Champions of the World
Myth 24. The Nachtigall and Roland Battalion and the Galicia Division Were Punitive Units of the SS
Myth 25. Bandera and the Ukrainian Nationalists Were Agents of the Nazi Secret Service
Myth 26. Roman Shukhevych Served in the Armed SS
Myth 27. The Ukrainian Nationalists Massacred Jews During the War, Especially in Lviv and Babi Yar
Myth 28. The Red Partisans – The “People’s Avengers”
Myth 29. The Only “Real” Partisans Were the Soviet Partisans
Myth 30. UPA – “Hitler’s Henchmen” and Never Fought Against the Nazis
Myth 31. The UPA Did Not Derail a Single Train Wagon
Myth 32. Bandera Personally Led the UPA
Myth 33. The UPA Fought for a Mono-Ethnic State
Myth 34. Charles de Gaulle Hoped to Command the UPA and Che Guevara Admired the Ukrainian Insurgents
Myth 35. The Crimean Tatars Deserted En Masse at the Beginning of the War
Myth 36. The Crimean Tatars – “Traitor-Nation”
Myth 37. The Deportation Meant Salvation for the Crimean Tatars
Myth 38. The Liberation of Ukraine
Myth 39. The Red Army – Which Liberated Ukraine from the Fascists – Was Shot in the Back by the UPA
Myth 40. Zhukov and Beria Ordered the Deportation of all Ukrainians to Siberia
Myth 41. Ukrainians – Butchers of the Warsaw Uprising
Myth 42. The Nuremburg Trials Condemned the Ukrainian Nationalists
Myth 43. Soviet Troops Never Committed War Crimes
Myth 44. The Flag Raised Over the Reichstag Was Done by Yegorov and Kantaria
Myth 45. The War Ended on 9 May
Myth 46. Victory Day Has Always Been the Most Important Holiday in the USSR
Myth 47. Victory Marshal
Myth 48. Hero Cities
Myth 49. Russia Could Defeat the Nazis Even Without the Ukrainians
Myth 50. “No one is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten”
Afterword, or Myths and War
Sources and Literature