For almost seven decades now, homegrown "rulers of thoughts" have been diligently covering the "white spots" of Russian history with black paint. The Great Patriotic War is no exception. Soviet propaganda pretended that there were no fines at all in the war and only fighters of the regular Red Army took part in the battles. Modern mass media and cinema give the impression that we owe Victory exclusively to the fines, who were driven by machine-gun bursts of NKVD detachments...