Ruins and Reconstruction at the Nexus of Soviet International and Domestic Policy: Reconstruction in Kyiv and Minsk, 1943-1948 Advisors: Tarik Amar (Columbia), Vladislav Zubok (LSE) A Minsk store displays UNRRA food. Source: John L. Strohm, Just Tell the Truth: The Uncensored Story of How the Common People Live Behind the Russian Iron Curtain (NY,NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947), p.190.