Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haramta ayyukan masana tarihi da yawa na Yammacin Turai ko kuma an haramta su, kuma an haramta yawancin fannonin tarihi don bincike saboda, a hukumance, ba su taɓa faruwa ba. Saboda wannan dalili, tarihin tarihin Soviet ya kasance mafi yawa a waje da tarihin tarihin duniya na wannan lokacin. An fassara fassarar tarihin kasashen waje (idan a kowane lokaci) a cikin wani nau'i mai mahimmanci, tare da ƙididdiga mai yawa da kuma bayanan "gyara". Misali, a cikin fassarar Rasha ta 1976 na Basil Liddell Hart "Tarihin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu" tsarkakewa kafin yakin basasa na jami'an Red Army, yarjejeniyar sirri ga Yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop, cikakkun bayanai da yawa game da Yakin hunturu, mamayar jihohin Baltic, mamayar Soviet na Bessarabia da Arewacin Bukovina
, Taimakon Allied ga Tarayyar Soviet a lokacin yakin, da yawa daga cikin sauran kasashen Yammacin Yammacin Turai, da kuskuren da shugabannin Soviet suka yi, da sukar Soviet Union da sauran abubuwan da aka tsara.