Posted on 01/13/2019 1:57:56 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime and Hitler’s is any reference to the alliance the two dictators formed in 1939 with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, one that opened the way to war in Europe and lasted until Hitler turned on his former ally in June 1941.
But now there may be something even more offensive to such defenders of Stalin and his system: the discovery of documents which confirm that the NKVD cooperated closely with the Gestapo well before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed and that may have paved the way to its signature.
Dmitry Volchek of Radio Svoboda reports that documents recently released from the archives of the KGB offices in Ukraine show that “the NKVD handed over to the Gestapo refugees from Germany who had hoped to find in the USSR salvation from Hitler” (svoboda.org/a/29704294.html).
Beginning well before 1939 and continuing right up to the German invasion, the Soviet secret police sent “hundreds” of refugees to their imprisonment, torture and in many cases death at the hands of the Gestapo. At first, it involved mostly German citizens; but later, this “cooperation” expanded to include others as well.
German historian Wilhelm Mensing has set up a website, “The NKVD and the Gestapo” at nkwd-und-gestapo.de/ devoted to the fate of those who fled Hitler’s Germany only to be arrested in the USSR, sent to the GULAG or handed back to the Nazis. (Mensing is also the author among other books of Von der Ruhr in den GULAG (2001).)
The documents from Ukraine are especially important for two reasons: In East Germany, any reference to this practice was prohibited; and there are few documents about it in Stasi files, Mensing says; and in Russia, the secret police files that presumably do contain documents about it remain classified and thus inaccessible to researchers.
Volchek asked Mensing about similarities between the NKVD and the Gestapo. The German historian answered that they shared “the specific qualities of the secret police. The Gestapo exterminated the Jewish population in occupied countries: this was its unique feature.” On the other hand, “the number of victims of the NKVD was apparently larger.”
“The numbers varied, but the pitilessness was the same,” he continued. “Both the Gestapo and the NKVD were instruments in the hands of criminal rulers and despotic tyrants.”
New Germany/Russia same as old Germany/Russia.
Evil attracting evil.
During the Great Purge most foreign Communist who had taken refuge in the USSR were either shot or disappeared into the GULAG. What was left were to be totally subservient Staliniods such as Walter Ulbricht who would be simply Stalin's loyal puppets. Hardly surprising that Stalin would get rid of some of these ‘unreliable’ elements in this fashion. I'm sure he got a chuckle out of it.
Nazi Germany’s death camps were copied directly from the Soviet system of Gulags. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was a Russian fraud adopted by the Nazis to promulgate hatred of Jews. There are more than just parallels. There are direct links between the Nazis and the Soviets.
Beginning well before 1939 and continuing right up to the German invasion, the Soviet secret police sent “hundreds” of refugees to their imprisonment, torture and in many cases death at the hands of the Gestapo. At first, it involved mostly German citizens; but later, this “cooperation” expanded to include others as well.
Thanks CondoleezzaProtege.
Let’s not be too eager to believe everything we read. That part of the world has been a hotbed of lies, distortion, and misinformation. Remember the Protocols of The Elders of Zion?
The Germans paid Lenin to overthrow the tsar and, later, the provisional government. Without German financial backing the bolsheviks were nothing
Read up on Vasily Blokhin.
I believe they covered this in the documentary, ‘The Soviet Story’
I would provide a link but Youtube has scrubbed/censored it.
I suppose because these were all Czechs involved London didn't have the hell beaten out of him as the Russians were very fond of doing. The Czech methods were less violent but no less sadistic.
The Freikorps were working with Russia in the 20’s IIRC.
Stalin did not want a strong German Communist Party. He knew if the Communists took over Germany, they would inevitably rival Moscow for leadership in the world Communist movement. So Stalin was more than happy to let Hitler eliminate the KPD.
Judge Roland Freisler, who headed the Nazi “People’s Court”, started out as a Bolshevik, who got inspiration from Stalin’s 1930s show trials.
Also I find it curious that Stalin, basically let Hitler waltz into the parts of the Soviet Union, where the majority of their Jews lived.
It’s as if he knew Hitler would take care of his own “Jewish Problem” for him.
I remember reading Viktor Blenenko’s “MiG Pilot’’ and how he talked about as a child in his rural Russian village there were Russian war vets, who had returned as former POWs and were ostracized from the village because they had ‘’betrayed the Motherland’’. The poor souls were forced to fend for themselves. They were referred to as ‘’the men of the forest’’.
Stalin also looked upon anyone from Leningrad with contempt.
The Leningrad Affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_affair
A lot of finance for the Bolsheviks also came from certain quaters of Wall Street.
In fact, Trotsky lived in the Bronx while editing Novy Mir, a newspaper there, and Trotsky’s kids went to the local public schools.
Trotsky’s real name was Lev David Lev Bronshtein.
Lev David Bronshtein, rather. Sorry.
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