Commentary: A carefully crafted narrative of war was a tool of the Soviet Union. The lies have never stopped
Whenever as a child I came upon a description of people living their daily life during the 1940s, I reacted with disbelief. How can this be, when millions in Europe were experiencing incomprehensible horror? It felt inconceivable.
The daily life of Soviet children was infused with a narrative of war — of past and present threat. It was pervasive in children’s literature. No person who grew up in the Soviet Union could forget Malchish
