Review of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II, by Karel C. Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2012)
… forces highlighting Jewish suffering would have meant combatting anti-Semitism among their own population. … of the population. Most importantly, Stalin and his closest officials monitored the press themselves, stepping in … which was ironic, given that the Soviet "Motherland" encompassed numerous nationalities, including peoples who …