[Lion in Winter]

You mean the program that sent thousands of Russian prisoners of war.... those held by the nazis.... back to certain death in the USSR death camps or gulags created by stalin?

I was told by a close friend who was a young officer on the staff of General Eisenhower during the war before D-Day and after... that Stalin demanded that all his soldiers be returned after the war and both Churchill and Roosevelt had agreed to it before the D-Day invasion. My friend said, It was ALL about politics.

[GarySpFc]

You mean the program that sent thousands of Russian prisoners of war.... those held by the nazis.... back to certain death in the USSR death camps or gulags created by stalin?

It was my belief that every Russian who was a POW of the Germans was sent to the Gulag. However, my Russian wife said that was not true. I asked, "How do you know that?" She replied, "My father was a POW and captured in the Battle of Stalingrad. He was released by the Americans, and never had any problem when he returned home." I thought maybe he was a communist, but my wife said not one. He often told his children that Stalin was evil, and read the Bible to the kids every night. I was shocked, and asked where he got his Bible. She said it was very old, and from that I deduced it must have been pre-Revolution.