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To: anymouse

This is nauseating. The only person who was equally a fan of the Soviets was Truman, who at that point was just following his master FDR and sent thousands of German POWs from Soviet territory back to the USSR, knowing perfectly well that they would be killed immediately.

These were people who had been captured fighting for the German army, and some of them were ethnic Germans from areas that had then become parts of Russia, while others were White Russians who saw joining the German army as the only way to attack the Soviets. We kept them in POW camps here for years, and then we sent them back to Russia, even though many people were pleading with us not to do that. And they were all killed.


7 posted on 05/08/2010 12:39:00 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Even before WW II, it was Russian law (Stalin's will, same thing) that Russians taken prisoner be sentenced to death in absentia, and any Russian POW's recovered from the enemy be remanded to the NKVD for execution.

During the Winter War, the Finns found that Russian regulars and draftees frequently committed suicide rather than be captured.

During the Big War, NKVD troops almost always fought to the finish. This was one of the reasons why.

17 posted on 05/08/2010 5:06:16 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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