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The books written by Simonov and published in the 2010's and source based on declassified official documents should be considered as more reliable than the sources from the 1990's before essential WWII documents were declassified; books published in 1990's and 2000's the when authors like Thomas Polak and Henry Sakaida relied heavily on Soviet newspapers, eyewitness interviews, and Soviet propaganda, which nearly always contained contradictory information and were hard to determine accuracy of without documents to provide context.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 18:01, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
