Posted on 08/02/2011 3:30:37 PM PDT by Nachum
A team of researchers believes it has found proof that the Soviets-Russians hid information on Raoul Wallenberg
It has long been suspected that Russia has deliberately concealed information on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
Wallenberg was arrested in Budapest after Soviet troops entered the city in 1945 and never seen again.
The Soviet Union claimed alternatively that he had died or had been executed shortly afterwards. Former Soviet prisoners testified that they saw him alive during the 1980s when he was merely identified by number rather than by name.
Additional proof has now surfaced that the Russians have been less than candid. A researcher conducting a study on the KGB's SMERSH (death to spies) counterespionage organization located material detailing the interrogation of Willy Rodel, a German POW who shared a cell with Wallenberg in Moscow's infamous Lefortovo prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
And to this very day, leftists still think that communists and the USSR weren’t all that bad... See the NY Times, and their defense of Walter Durante and the Pulitzer Prize he got for disseminating Stalin’s lies about the murder of some 50 million people!
Wallenberg was a selfless hero, but the leftists will probably say, since he saved Jews, he got what he deserved.
Mark
God Bless the memory of Roul Walenberg.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.