It is vital to address the history behind the fiction. The year 1940 is a complex one in Soviet history. The USSR was, at that time, allied with Nazi Germany under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. By spring 1940, Soviet forces were occupying eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Finland.
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