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

The Jamaica Observer ^ | Friday, February 11, 2005

[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.

[cynicom]

Must be a mistake here. The Germans are the ONLY bad guys.

[lizol]

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[lizol]

Sarcasm, I suppose?

[William of Orange]

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

[pabianice]

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.

[the_Watchman]

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.

[BenLurkin]

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

[cynicom]

Tad

[Thorin]

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.

[sheik yerbouty]

Russian Jews? Excogitate, Mein Herr!

[cynicom]

sheik...

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

[sheik yerbouty]

Funny how you always try making it one.

[Lobster Johnson]

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.

[sheik yerbouty]

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.

[cynicom]

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.

[Grzegorz 246]

"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"?

[StoneColdGOP]

Ping.

[Bella_Bru]

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