Should be required reading in every high school in the USA:
Posted on 12/27/2017 7:50:51 AM PST by x1stcav
Trudging through mud in sub-zero temperatures, digging the earth with their bare hands and heaving huge rocks with the most primitive of tools, these horrifying photos have revealed life inside Joseph Stalin's gulag prisons, where people were worked to death in Soviet labour camps through the mid-1900s.
This year marks 100 years since the 1917 Russian Revolution, which led to Vladimir Lenin taking control of the Soviet Union. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin rose to power and became the state's authoritarian leader.
Between 1929 and the year of Stalin's death in 1953, 18million men and women were transported to Soviet slave labour camps in Siberia and other outposts of the Red empire - many of them never to return.
Prisoners worked in the most extreme climates, facing temperatures of -20C (-4F), as they cut down trees with handsaws and dug at frozen ground with primitive pickaxes.
Others mined coal or copper by hand, often suffering painful or fatal lung diseases from inhaling ore dust while on the job.
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>Took em all back to the gulags and that was the last anyone heard of them.
The Soviet Union couldn’t function without mass slavery. Even during times of peacetime, the cops had quotas to meet and they’d fill them with random people if they couldn’t find enough “criminals”.
>Patton had the right idea regarding the commies.
He did. Nor would it have been all that hard of a war. Without American aid, Russia was out of most basic supplies like food. And they’d run out of new manpower in 1944. Russia had a lot of divisions but most were 1/2 to 1/4 strength.
This is the future our own leftists envision for the rest of us.
At least those of us they would leave alive.
>I’ve been reading a book entitled After Stalingrad about the fate of German POWs. The Soviet regime was every bit as abominable as Hitler’s. The hammer and sickle should be reviled as fully as the swastika, and yet lefties wave it in the street, loud and proud.
The only good communist is a dead communist.
A few choice mushroom clouds would have sped it up a bit.
I would hate to think he was sacrificed for commie appeasement. Accidents happen too.
It is all there in “The Gulag Archipelago”.
Yet we still have many who have affection for Putin, who was part of that entire police state that sent millions of Soviets to their deaths in these camps.
But, hey...that’s all in the past now.
“And there was a few who were American boys who’s POW camp they over ran during WW2”
A few? More like at least 24,000. Stalin kept them for bargaining chips. Some were traded back during spy exchanges but very few.”
They sent THEIR POWs to the gulag because they feared they had been “turned” by the Germans. AL Stewart sang a song about it in “Road to Moscow”. They thought they were going home but the trains kept going.
Should be required reading in every high school in the USA:
Read a witness account of Russian POWs returning to the Soviet Union following WWII. The ranking general went down the gang plank to greet the political officers. He reported in, gave the number of soldiers on the ship and saluted. One of the political officers pulled out a pistol. He said Russians don’t surrender and shot him in the head.
Total control of the media only goes so far. Eventually the people find out and the regime loses credibility and support among the people.
In “Operation Keelhaul” U.S. forces returned thousands of `liberated’ Soviet POWs to the Red Army. They were marched a few miles away and then machinegunned to death.
In that case we'll have to kill about one third of Congress!
Why are WE not doing to them what the looney left is doing to the Confederate memorials?
Patton did have the right idea.
Unfortunately, the troops would not have gone along. They were willing to undergo wartime life and death to defeat Germany, and nothing else. My own father is a good example.
McArthur asked for his army engineer regiment by name for Japan occupation duty shortly after the Japanese surrender. This was the most experienced regiment in the army at building airfields, having worked their way across the Pacific from Hawaii to Okinawa since 1942.
The enlisted men had a meeting, and sent a delegation of senior NCO’s to the Island commander, saying they refused to go to Japan, and would go home one way or another instead. McArthur had to settle for a green regiment.
More than one ship, civilian and navy, was seized by troops desperate to go home ASAP. The same sort of thing happened in Europe.
Adult male professed Muslims as well.
I had never of that side of WWII history.
My grandfather was 3rd army, a sergeant, I think in supply and he never talked much of the experience.
Interesting stuff.
My dad might have been in the picture of the polish kids in the gulag, his family in the train pictures and his uncles in the Karyn photos. Never trust Russia and don’t trust Putin
The Katyn Forest photo hits home. Some of our family died there.
REQUIRED READING - Damn Right.
Along with a study of the FEDERALIST
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