Posted on 02/13/2021 9:49:49 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1942, German troops in Russia’s Pskov Oblast summarily executed 83-year-old peasant Matvey Kuzmin for leading them into an ambush.
World War II’s real-life Ivan Susanin was conscripted as a guide for the occupying Wehrmacht intending to approach a Soviet position at the village of Makino.
Kuzmin cunningly sent his son ahead to Malkino to alert his countrymen of the attack while guiding the Germans circuitously. By the time Kuzmin et al reached the outskirts, a Soviet ambush was waiting for them.
An enraged German officer shot Kuzmin during the ensuing firefight....
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Who and who?
Commie betrays Nazis; Nazi kills Commie. Win/Win.
That’s not an execution. It’s a flat-out murder.
Is Psaki from Pskov?
True; no good guys there.
When Rome realized they could never defeat the Germnanic tribes, they were reduced to simply supporting the weaker side in struggles between those tribes - to prolong the wars resulting in the death of as many Germans as possible.
Our part in the European theater in WWII seemed very similar; eventually the weaker one (Stalin) came out on top due to massive infusions of Western aid and arms, and as compensation he took Eastern Europe - including Poland, whose freedom was the initial cause for Britain and France to declare war on Germany six years before. It started with BS when they declared war on Germany for invading western Poland while ignoring Stalin’s invasion of eastern Poland (and Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and a year later, eastern Finland).
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