If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Actual Oxyclean User wrote:
"David E. Powell" wrote in message s.com... Not to mention the footage I have seen of people setting up factories and working hot steel in buildings with no roofs on yet and snow coming down. There aren't words for that kind of bravery. You need to be a little more specific about bravery when you talk about the Russians. Much of their bravery came at the muzzle of an NKVD rifle. The Moscow panic was brutally surpressed by the NKVD. If you didn't work long hard hours in those factories, you could be shot. NKVD units were generally interspersed with regular units. Anyone not showing sufficient enthusiasm for marching into a Nazi machine gun nest would be shot in the back. The end of the war did not bring relief but did bring into being the gulag system of slave labor. Then there is the issue of the Russians that welcomed the Nazis hoping to get rid of the Communists. Ukranians, although not Russians, were often quite happy to see the Germans, especially remembering that Stalin's famine caused about 4 million of them to die. While Chechans were storming the Reichstag, their families back home were being deported to Siberia. Oxycleam Your comments would be much more credible, if you had your 'facts' in better shape. The gulag was in official existance from ~1919 through 1956. It did not come into existance at the end of WW2. Moreover political prisons and forced labor camps have existed in the Russian empire longer than just that. E.g. construction battalions for St. Petersburg and the Vyshnii Volochek System of canals. The 1932-33 Holodomor claimed about 7 million not 4. -- Rostyk |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|