"Hitler's War" or "Stalin's War"?

Abstract

This question has long occupied the pages of international political literature. Sometimes there are references to "Churchill's War" or "Roosevelt's War."¹ Such personification has the potential, however, to distort the very essence of this, the greatest of world tragedies—a tragedy that symbolizes, on the one hand, imperialism, racism, and monstrous crimes, and, on the other hand, the great, liberating antifascist movement of nations.²