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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It is also to be remembered that it was the Brits who instituted the first concentration camps during the Boer War - thousands of women and children died from starvation, neglect and disease. During the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after WW2 Goering (head of the concentration system) said he got the idea from the Brits.


5 posted on 06/22/2018 11:08:52 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

It would only mean something if a person in Zakharova’s position would give an account of the crimes of Russia and the Soviet Union.


7 posted on 06/22/2018 11:10:52 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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For the Russians, of all people, to criticize British atrocities is sheer hypocrisy. Stalin alone killed multiple times more people in his 25 year reign than the British did in several centuries, inclusive of their atrocities in Ireland and South Africa, not to mention the deaths of 10,000 American soldiers in prison ships during our War for Independence. At least three million died during the Ukrainian famine, which unlike the Irish potato famine was not an act of nature, but a deliberate policy to exterminate the kulaks by confiscating all the food. Untold millions of Russians and other nationalities were worked or starved to death in the Gulag Archipelago. Tens of thousands of Christian (mainly Orthodox) clergy were killed, many in the most cruel and inhumane manner possible. Then there were the mass rapes, murders, and looting of eastern Germany by the Soviet hordes in 1945. Their treatment of Poles, Czechs, and others, while less severe, was most brutal, with mass murders of anti-Communists, looting, and rape.

Unlike the Nazis, most of whose leaders were executed or sentenced to long prison terms, the Communists never faced judgment for their crimes. Most Soviet leaders died in their own beds, living off generous pensions. Ditto for the Eastern European Communist leaders, with a few exceptions, like Ceausescu.

The Russians should just shut up and deal with their own sordid history, particularly from 1918 to 1991, before criticizing Britain or America.

13 posted on 06/22/2018 11:31:31 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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ousands of women and children died from starvation, neglect and disease.

False.


35 posted on 06/22/2018 2:15:24 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: SkyDancer
It is also to be remembered that it was the Brits who instituted the first concentration camps during the Boer War

There's actually another claim from the same era of being the first concentration camps: Spain in Cuba.

58 posted on 06/26/2018 3:40:57 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ("Conservatism" without G-d is just another form of Communism.)
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