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I could have sworn that several weeks ago I found a book on libgen or Google Books explicitly describing itself with something like ‘While not denying Soviet brutality, the author concludes that that the Red Army did a good job protecting Jews’ (maybe specifically in Moldovia or Bessarabia or something—I can’t remember). I think that the cover featured a monochrome photo over a red background.
Man, was I bonehead, because I glossed over that book when I spotted it and now I can’t find it anywhere! My thought process must have been, ‘Well, I’m sure that anticommunists will deny/trivialize/ignore the positive findings anyway, so there’s no point in reading.’ So I didn’t make note of it. ~~Feck, now I’ll probably never find it again.~~
ETA: here it is!
how did you find it?
I think that originally I found it while I was doing research on Romanian fascism. When I tried to recover it I looked on Research Gate and spotted this article, which looked similar, then I looked through the citations section and that’s how I recovered the book.