Sadly, these happenings also say much about the British and to a lesser extent the Americans, many of whom were willing participants in the forced repatriation. The reasons for this say more about the horror of life under the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Revolution than Hitler’s Germany. Never before in the annals of warfare had so many soldiers abandoned their own side to fight for the enemy. It mattered not that many had been forcibly removed from their homeland by the former German enemy.Īpproximately one million of the expatriates were military men who for various reasons took up arms against Stalin and volunteered to fight with Germany. Whether these individuals were civilian or soldier, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin reasoned that anyone who had been living outside the borders of the Soviet Union was to be considered contaminated by anti-Soviet ideology and therefore could not be trusted. Many met death by execution immediately, while others were literally worked to death in the hundreds of gulags that dotted the largest slave society in history. Between 19, over two million Russians who had been living in the occupied countries of Europe, some voluntarily, some not, were forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union.
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