Posted on 03/17/2015 2:01:43 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Edited on 03/17/2015 2:37:44 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
MOSCOW (AP) -- The leader of North Korea is among 26 world leaders who have accepted invitations to Moscow to take part in celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.
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Russia never changes, they are still part of the alliance of evil.
Who else is in the alliance besides Russia?
China for one, Russia is a force for evil and maintains alliances and friendships with the evil forces on the globe.
Do they have enough food for Dear Leader?
I'm not surprised. The Germans have historically not enjoyed parades in Moscow:
Perfect time for a Nork coup.
A guy who starves his civilians to barely feed his army, is such a great guy to honor. But hey, they’ve got the bomb.
Yeah, true that! I’ll bet there’s maybe a hundred Germans, or may two hundred out of that whole group who ever made it back to Germany.
That's still a higher percentage of Russian Prisoners taken by the Nazis who made it back to Russia.
And the few who actually did make it back, most likely wound up in a Siberian Gulag.
Yeah, you’re right. The ones Stalin didn’t throw in the gulag were left to fend for themselves literally like animals. They were known in some place as ‘’men of the forest’’ because they were forced to live a feral lifestyle.
Operation Keelhaul was not our finest moment.
I may have one of their rifles.
No, Keelhaul was not a proud moment. There are stories of “liberated” Russian POWs committing suicide when they heard they were going “home.” And not all of them were Vlasovites.
As for the Germans, they didn’t get returned until 1955, after Stalin died and Adenauer went to Moscow. The price was recognition of East Germany and acceptance of a more or less permanent partition of the country.
As for the Russians wanting to celebrate May 8 as the 70th Anniversary of their big win, I don’t have problem with that. With an estimated 11,000,000 military deaths and perhaps 20,000,000 more civilians dead in the war, I think they earned it. Even if I have no love for their current despot.
It’s important to remember Old Joe was happy to stroll down the garden path with Old Adolph invading Poland(three weeks after the Germans did most of the heavy lifting) and carving up the Baltic States and sitting in the Kremlin chuckling at night while the Luftwaffe pounded the crap out of London. Sorry but I don’t work up too admiration for the Russkies. They were only our ally because Hitler decided to end the partnership with them in June of ‘41.
German or Russian?
Bump
German is what I meant...Soviet capture, bit I’ve got some Russians, too.
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