We’ll only find out the true story in the next twenty years or so. This is going to be be comparable to the story of WW2 on the Eastern front; the initial story came from the German Generals who had their own agenda to push, then after the fall of the Soviet Union and opening up of Soviet archives a large amount of historical correction/revision took place.
Anything we hear now is just the players on each side trying to shape the narrative to their own advantage.
“We’ll only find out the true story in the next twenty years or so”
There is still debate about whether Hitler really died in the Berlin bunker.
Stalin never believed it—and he had the best sources of information. Of course that didn’t stop him from publicly celebrating Hitler’s “death”.
The more I study history the more I am convinced it is mostly a pack of lies.
Everybody has an axe to grind/conflict of interest—and often very good reasons for hiding things, especially during wartime when there can be hidden individual or group atrocities—whether sanctioned or unsanctioned.