Tag #155303 - Interview #94498 (Evadiy Rubalskiy)

We knew that fascism was booming in Germany and that Hitler’s armies attacked Poland in 1939, but it never occurred to us that Hitler or anybody else could attack the USSR. We had been told that we were the strongest in the world and that our victorious army could only defeat enemies on their own terrains. We never had a bit of doubt about it. After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [28] was executed nobody even thought that there was such a possibility of an attack on the USSR.