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Poland marks 65 years since Stalin's deportation of Poles to Siberia
The Jamaica Observer ^ | Friday, February 11, 2005

Posted on 02/11/2005 10:56:20 AM PST by lizol

Poland marks 65 years since Stalin's deportation of Poles to Siberia

AP Friday, February 11, 2005

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Survivors marked 65 years yesterday since Soviet occupiers began sending Poles to Siberian labour camps after signing a pact with Nazi Germany to divide up Poland.

Under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, at least 320,000 Poles from what is now Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania were deported between February 1940 and June 1941. Historians estimate that some 20 to 30 per cent perished from forced labour in subfreezing temperatures, disease and starvation.

A wreath-laying ceremony at a monument to the deportees marked the anniversary of the first transport of Poles on February 10, 1940, and survivors talked about still vivid memories.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: anniversary; belarus; communism; evilempire; gulags; holocaust; jewish; jews; josefstalin; koniuchy; lithuania; poland; polish; russia; siberia; soviet; sovietunion; stalin; ukraine
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1 posted on 02/11/2005 10:56:20 AM PST by lizol
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Must be a mistake here. The Germans are the ONLY bad guys.


2 posted on 02/11/2005 10:58:28 AM PST by cynicom (<p)
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3 posted on 02/11/2005 10:59:07 AM PST by lizol (.)
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To: cynicom

Sarcasm, I suppose?


4 posted on 02/11/2005 10:59:45 AM PST by lizol (.)
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To: lizol

the DNC will soon release a statement denouncing this wreath laying ceremony and call it a witch hunt inspired by Rove & Bush.


5 posted on 02/11/2005 11:01:55 AM PST by William of Orange (I'm a DU troll pretending to be a FReeper, how am I doing?)
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To: lizol

Let us also mark the 63rd anniversary of Poland's complicity in rounding-up and shipping Polish Jews -- including my relatives -- to the Lodz Ghetto, from which they were sent to the death camps. None of my relatives survived.


6 posted on 02/11/2005 11:06:08 AM PST by pabianice
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To: lizol
Earlier this week there was a story posted about the Russians wanting more credit for the defeat of Germany.

I used to use a litmus test on history books. The first test was to find out if they mentioned that Stalin and Hitler had a pact at the beginning of the war. Most books forgot to mention that Stalin invaded Poland as an ally of Germany.

The second test, which was much more subtle, was to see if they connected the dots between the death of Stalin and the end of the Korean war. The fact that the Chinese were combatants was undeniable. Even "MASH" doesn't attempt to gloss over that. However, North Korean troops were getting major economic support from the Soviets. Once Stalin died the Soviets decided that the cost was too high. A Soviet president campaigned on a slogan promising more butter and less guns. Shortly afterward, the North Koreans came to the peace table.

Most Americans are unaware of this history, because most textbook writers find these to be "inconvenient" facts.
7 posted on 02/11/2005 11:08:33 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: lizol

This must be part of the true story of WWII tha Putin wants everyone to remember.


8 posted on 02/11/2005 11:09:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: lizol

Tad


9 posted on 02/11/2005 11:15:38 AM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: pabianice

The Nazis were responsible for killing the Jews of Poland, not Poles. This is a hard thing for Americans to grasp, but people living in a country occupied by a totalitarian invader really don't have a lot of room for freedom of action.


10 posted on 02/11/2005 11:17:33 AM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: cynicom

Russian Jews? Excogitate, Mein Herr!


12 posted on 02/11/2005 11:28:05 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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sheik...

You lost??? This is not an anti semitism thread.

13 posted on 02/11/2005 11:29:21 AM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: cynicom

Funny how you always try making it one.


14 posted on 02/11/2005 11:34:42 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: pabianice
The General Government was run by Hans Frank and other Nazis.

The Armia Krajowa (Home Army) was the largest resistance group in all of occupied Europe during World War II. In total the AK killed an estimated 150,000 Nazis.

Complicity? Work for the Ministry of Truth now, do we?

BTW, I also lost family in the camps. Polish Catholics.
15 posted on 02/11/2005 11:37:47 AM PST by Lobster Johnson
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To: Thorin

That is a good point. There were Poles who were heroic, and those that weren't. The Nazis regarded Poles as sub human and only suitable for slave labor. The Nazis regarded Jews as subhuman and more suitable for death.


16 posted on 02/11/2005 11:37:50 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
Sure chaps you boys when you get caught with your agenda down, does'nt it??????

By the way, do you have the info on date when Kulaks were hauled away???? You don't???? Somehow I figured that would escape you.

17 posted on 02/11/2005 11:37:56 AM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: pabianice
"Let us also mark the 63rd anniversary of Poland's complicity in rounding-up and shipping Polish Jews."

Interesting. Could you provide some source about this "Poland's complicity"?
18 posted on 02/11/2005 11:40:23 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Bella_Bru

Ping.


19 posted on 02/11/2005 11:40:26 AM PST by StoneColdGOP (Warning: Not being an open-borders RINO can be dangerous to your FR health.)
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To: StoneColdGOP

Oh, yay. Another thread polluted by closet Jew-hater cynicom.


20 posted on 02/11/2005 11:43:10 AM PST by Bella_Bru (You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
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