Thanks GoldenState_Rose. The 60 Minutes story about it years ago (many years ago) closed with the information that Wallenberg's arrest was by Red Army officer Leonid Brezhnev.
Posted on 02/20/2018 1:34:22 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
A senior Russian official finally admitted that Stalin's secret police shot dead Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of central European Jews from the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944 and 1945.
For decades the Soviet authorities insisted that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in 1947 in a Soviet prison, but speculation about his fate grew into a full-blown mystery as gulag inmates surfaced to report sightings of the Swede in Siberia into the 1950s.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
This was speculated a long time, and in more recent times Putin was effectively trying to avoid the question.
It’s an understandable error on their part. After all, it is quite easy for a doctor or medical examiner to mistake a bullet to the back of the head for a heart attack when performing an autopsy...
He was part Jewish, through his great-great grandfather, but he agreed to be sent to Nazi controlled Hungary, under diplomatic cover, in June 1944, just before or after the Allies landed at Normandy.
In the early 1930s he studied at the University of Michigan, and he hitch hiked all around America on several of his school breaks.
Presumably Sweden was terrified that the Soviets would move against them next; and the Swedish ambassador more or less told Stalin
that they were not concerned about Wallenberg. Stalin then took a piece of paper about Wallenberg off the table and stuck it in his pocket, and that was that.
it is interesting that Russia/Putin are coming clean about this wonderful man....now.
way way way late, but still better late than never
and it MAY indicate a desire or willingness to make some further amends, policy changes? we will see....
i don’t want to read too much into this, and its been pretty obvious for decades that the Soviets murdered Wallenberg, but still... this is a little glimmer of light..
Article appears to be from 2000 but since this isn’t in Breaking News, I guess its ok.
Wiki doesn't even mention this. Even if it was just published today, it would be there. This appears to be the lastest:
"In 2012, Russian lieutenant-general Vasily Khristoforov, head of the registration branch of the Russian Federal Security Service, said that the Wallenberg case was still open. He dismissed allegations of a continuing cover-up; referring to the legacy Soviet agency from which his department sprang, Khristoforov said: "This is another state and a different special service."[89]- wiki
2017: “Russian court will hear case on Raoul Wallenberg”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/world/europe/raoul-wallenberg-russia.html
“” “” Presumably Sweden was terrified that the Soviets would move against them next; and the Swedish ambassador more or less told Stalin
that they were not concerned about Wallenberg. Stalin then took a piece of paper about Wallenberg off the table and stuck it in his pocket, and that was that.”” “”
Sweden was already heavily socialist at the time. It was a waste of effort for Stalin to invade and convert them. In USSR they had a multi-tier system of perception of foreign societies based on their attitude towards socialism and foreign policy. Basically more socialism and less American ties (or more anti-Americanism) made overall ‘capitalist’ country a good guy.
In that sense Finland was a model ‘good’ Western country for the Soviets. Sweden and France were very close meaning the Soviet citizens were rather easily (well adjusting to Soviet terms) allowed to travel there as tourists.
Thanks GoldenState_Rose. The 60 Minutes story about it years ago (many years ago) closed with the information that Wallenberg's arrest was by Red Army officer Leonid Brezhnev.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Brezhnev?!
He was also a Lutheran.
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