The Chronicle Of Carnage That Everyone Should Read

  I think there would be a good case for that book or something similar to be required reading for at least some school college courses.  Pretty certain I haven't read it but being an history addict I suspect I know most of the details.  Remember reading a book a few years back, forget the title, about how WWII brutalised much of Europe, especially but no solely in the east, and the sort of crimes just about everybody engaged in.  Including victims becoming persecutors themselves.  There was a chilling section on how Poles and Ukrainians were engaged on basically ethnic cleansing in the disputed border lands until Stalin basically had the Red Army step in and enforce the movement of populations so there was no minorities in the region.  Ironically shortly afterwards there were Ukrainians seeking to flee to Poland, despite the bad feelings between the two, because of the brutal clamp-down on the Ukraine, where a resistance movement to renewed Soviet rule resisted for several years, was so bad they were willing to risk the anger of their former foes.

  Unfortunately I fear that very few people in the west or elsewhere know more than the barest details of WWII, such as the Nazis were evil and were ultimately defeated but very little on how brutal the war was and how destructive of society.