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In Catherine Merridale's book Ivans War she says that throughout World War Two things like shellshock and PTSD were never accepted as legitimate reasons for soldiers to leave the front. Is this true? And if so, did the Soviet government evolve in its views and treatment of PTSD?

by /u/nowlan101 in /r/AskHistorians

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