PARTICIPATION OF CONVICTS IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941 - 1945 AND ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE OUR HISTORICAL MEMORY
The inconsistency of assertions of Ann Applebaum, professor of the London School of Economics and Political Science, about the lack of patriotism among former prisoners of camps and colonies of the USSR penitentiary system as one of the determining motives for their participation in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945 is reasoned in the article.