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See Chap. ) However, these uses of aircraft did not constitute a major drain upon Soviet air power, especially since the Soviet forces were rarely in positions (after the summer of 1942) when air transport was a crucial military requirement. Since there are many indications that the Soviet regime was unable to assign the partisans enough munitions and equipment until late 1942, it is evident that the quantities which were assigned prior to that time constituted some drain on the very limited Soviet resources.
3. Anticivilian Operations Given the objective of security of communications rather than pacification of the country, the combination of tactics the Germans employed was not in itself a bad means of reducing partisan damage with minimum resources. The German tactics meant, however, practically abandoning the population of the partisan-held areas and the "twilight" zones adjoining them. Assuming that the Germans were willing to pay this price, they would probably have been wiser, even from a strictly military point of view, to have disturbed the helpless civilian population as little as possible during the course of antiguerrilla operations.
One Soviet source (criticizing an earlier work by the present writer) maintains that the fact that V. A. 5 per cent Ukrainians and Belorussians in August 1943 and 82 per cent Ukrainians, Poles, and Belorussians in February 1944 shows that the partisan movement in the Ukraine was predominantly indigenous. [Colonel S. Doroshenko, "O falsifikatsii istorii partisanskogo dvizheniya v burzhauz-noi pechati," Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal, No. 7 (1960), p. ] In fact, these data would appear to show that the partisans tended to become Ukrainian as the war went on and larger numbers of local peasants were recruited, rather than that the initial partisan movement and the cadres were Ukrainian.