Can we file these two as ignorant bastards about forgetting about the gas chambers and the ovens all across eastern europe. Those camps were in the east because the germans thought a deal could be had with the soviets, with communisms anti judaism slant, if anyone found out about them in the USSR they would be ignored. The European and North America powers were “shocked” clutching pearls, but as early as summer 1942 the allies had the germans plans all figured out because quite honestly it was no secret for your average german.
Today russia has the same anti semitic slant, the same russian people and conscripts are cattle to be used by the state, and apparently the same immunity from economic pressures so far. Until russia is split into 30 independent states I don’t think the russian holdouts even can comprehend they lost long ago in 2000.
China is not Russia friend and your average russian knows that. My bet is that us govt will be 100% confident of lab leak if the china russia relationship actually gets any closer.
It wasn’t just the camps with their gas chambers.
Prior to that the SS had been using mobile gas vans.
Large trucks fitted out so the exhaust fumes killed those in the bed of the truck.
It proved to be too messy and impractical how ever.