Original sentence: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the previously unavailable Soviet archives have been re-examined by independent scholars from Poland, Germany, and elsewhere, and the conclusions drawn from them were strikingly different from the official Soviet line, maintained during the Cold War for several decades:.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia claimed that Soviet partisans inflicted thousands of casualties on Axis forces
Edited sentence: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia informs that Soviet partisans inflicted thousands of casualties on Axis forces