“Their crime, some had served the Germans.”
Well that’s a pretty serious crime I’d say. But that nothing beats that old world retardedness of arresting everyone, even soldiers in the army.
The Nazi Germans had a similar mentality. It didn’t matter how much someone had served Germany in WWI, or what medals they were awarded. If they were Jewish, they were murdered.
And sadly the NKVD legacy is celebrated in today’s Russia. As a “necessary” evil.
Felix Derzhinsky portraits abound in police stations and Stalin’s crimes are justified because well...he beat the Nazis.
Current FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov defended the purges last week at the centennial of thd founding of the Cheka:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secret-police-werent-all-that-bad-during-stalin-purges-says-spy-chief-alexander-bortnikov-mvdfkbxbt
Kalmykia
On December 27, 1943, Soviet authorities declared the Kalmyk people guilty of cooperation with the German Army and ordered the deportation of the entire Kalmyk population to various locations in Central Asia and Siberia. In conjunction with the deportation, the Kalmyk ASSR was abolished and its territory was split between adjacent Astrakhan, Rostov and Stalingrad Oblasts and Stavropol Krai. To completely obliterate any traces of the Kalmyk people, the Soviet authorities renamed the former republic’s towns and villages.[20]
The population transfer occurred immediately in the middle of the evening. No one was given advanced notification or time to assemble their belongings, including warm clothing, in preparation for their forced relocation. They were transported in trucks from their homes to the local railway stations where they were loaded in unheated cattle cars. In many cases, the cars were filled beyond capacity and did not contain bathrooms. Food was not provided, and water fell through the holes and cracks in the cattle car in the form of snow. As a result of these harsh conditions, many children and elderly men and women died en route.
Post-war Kalmykia
Due to their widespread dispersal in Siberia their language and culture suffered possibly irreversible decline. Khrushchev finally allowed their return in 1957, when they found their homes, jobs and land occupied by imported Russians and Ukrainians, who remained. On January 9, 1957, Kalmykia again became an autonomous oblast, and on July 29, 1958, an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR.
In the following years bad planning of agricultural and irrigation projects resulted in widespread desertification, and economically unviable industrial plants were constructed.
This story is a good history lesson, meaning it will happen again, and maybe right in our own country.
Imagine, the very unpopular war called Vietnam. The war, IMO, that helped fuel the cultural revolution of the 60’s. Now if enough lefties get in power, such as with Hitlery, what kind of damage in that department could be done?
How about vilifying all Viet Vets? How about opening files of the CIA and all the other folks that ran secret ops over there and finding what they think are atrocities (by their propaganda standards) and putting on trial the veterans whose names are within?
Get that going, then start on straight Christian White men.
And who were they, other than some more of Stalin's victims?