[nothingnew]

What the heck, underage conscripts were cheap then, and Stalin went on to kill another 20 million Russians.

Plus the thousands of Russian soldiers Ike "repatriated" to stalin at the end of the war, to their deaths. Russian soldiers who fought for Mother Russia, but knew the evil stalin and did not want to go back. "Operation Keelhaul".

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[GarySpFc]

Plus the thousands of Russian soldiers Ike "repatriated" to stalin at the end of the war, to their deaths. Russian soldiers who fought for Mother Russia, but knew the evil stalin and did not want to go back. "Operation Keelhaul".

This is not entirely true. My Russian wife's' father was captured at Stalingrad. He was a POW of the Germans until liberated by the Americans. At the end he returned to Russia and lived out his life without ever going to the gulag. He was a simple carpenter, not a communist, taught his children communism was wrong, Stalin evil, and read the Bible every day to his children.