Posted on 04/13/2005 1:24:56 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Soviet troops retreating were machine gunned down by NKVD squads.
I'm reminded of the picture original published in a Soviet encyclopedia. It showed five Russian fighters standing on a hill in winter, smiling after victory.
Years later, when one of the men fell out of Soviet favor (and out of sight), the encyclopedia publisher sent out the annual "updates". Recipients were to paste the updated data over the old. One included a picture of the men, still standing on the hill-side. In this "update" there were only four men, the man in the middle having been conveniently "removed" with a marginally clever touch-up.
""Stalin made very tough orders concerning the treatment of German civilians"
The BIG LIE is often more effective than a small one. This sounds like DPRK propaganda.
"We lost 27 million people, and each had five liters of blood."
They still don't get that most of them were (directly or not) killed by the uncle.
Gee maybe if Stalin didn't cozy up to Hitler to invade Poland in the first place, maybe the Soviets wouldn't have lost that many.
The opening scene of "Enemy at the Gates" showed that NKVD practice.
I love the communist line on his deal with Hitler. The crap about how Stalin knew war was coming but he needed time to prepare. Bull!!
Sad that these "historians" dont show the same amount of hostility with Stalin, who killed more Russians under his command than the Nazi's did in battle, than they do with the Nazis.
Remember that only party members got notification.
The ratio is probably 1:2 Stalin.
We may never know exactly how many were killed.
The 27 million died as a result of the war.
"Uncle Joe" had another 20 million or so killed because he perceived them to be political enemies.
Remember the Ukrainian Famine? There's eight million right there. Predated the war by almost ten years.
A lot of Soviet soldiers were killed because of Stalin's idiotic military decisions. Luckily for Uncle Joe the Austrian Corporal wasn't any better.
Stalin's real "tough orders": "Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"
Yes, uncle Joe.
And how many killed were brave Russian soldiers who fought, and who's only mistake was seeing part of the West, and for that crime, got shipped to Siberia upon their return to the Motherland?
Uncle Joe, beleive is what Churchill and Roosevelt called him.
The best scholarship holds that Stalin killed 40 milion of his own people. That does not include war casualties.
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