The view is original because it demonstrates that the tragic fate of the inhabitants of these regions is also linked to the political geography of the territories époque.Ces: Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic States, were in turn victims of nationalist ambitions (1918 boundary changes in 1945), imperialist (Germany and USSR), ideological (Nazism and Communism)
Hitler wanted to exterminate or enslave the "Sub-Men" Slavic (and Jews) to create settlements for the "On-Aryan Man." Stalin wanted to create a "New Man" and ordered the killing of those who were likely to upset this sublime purpose. Both dictators exercising absolute power through terror and propaganda, were obeying the letter by their subordinates.
Between 1930 and 1945, the balance sheet would be disarmed Fourteen million victims (civilians or prisoners of war), killed only for ideological reasons.