“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.
Abandoning POWs, an old idea.
“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.
The Katyn Forest photo hits home. Some of our family died there.