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originally posted by: Potlatch
There is a special international day of remembrance called Black Ribbon Day which honors victims of the Nazi occupation of Poland (including Holocaust victims) and people who were killed by the Soviets after the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed, namely Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians who were deported to GULAG facilities in the Arctic Circle but also Polish Army officers killed in the Katyn Forest massacre by the NKVD in April 1940. The Russian government scoffs at Black Ribbon Day for overlooking the fact that Joseph Stalin ignored warnings from Winston Churchill not to take Hitler's word regarding the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, since Churchill knew that Hitler was not going to budge from his determination to plow his way through Slavic Europe given that the Fuhrer cheated on the Munich Pact by annexing Czechoslovakia even after he absorbed Sudetenland into the Third Reich.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
originally posted by: Potlatch
There is a special international day of remembrance called Black Ribbon Day which honors victims of the Nazi occupation of Poland (including Holocaust victims) and people who were killed by the Soviets after the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed, namely Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians who were deported to GULAG facilities in the Arctic Circle but also Polish Army officers killed in the Katyn Forest massacre by the NKVD in April 1940. The Russian government scoffs at Black Ribbon Day for overlooking the fact that Joseph Stalin ignored warnings from Winston Churchill not to take Hitler's word regarding the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, since Churchill knew that Hitler was not going to budge from his determination to plow his way through Slavic Europe given that the Fuhrer cheated on the Munich Pact by annexing Czechoslovakia even after he absorbed Sudetenland into the Third Reich.
After the end of the War many Polish, Czech and other that fought for there country's having escaped to Britain were repatriated (Sent home but some where allowed to stay), sadly once they crossed the border of what would soon become the Iron Curtain these men and woman especially the officers and those whom had high office within there country's before they were forced to flee were mostly murdered by the Russians.
This has left a gap in the history of these freedom fighters and there war to free there nations.
www.historic-uk.com...
www.historylearningsite.co.uk...
In the nations that were not occupied by the Soviets the men whom fled to Britain in order to fight for the freedom of there country's are celebrated hero's but sadly those whom had fled to Britain to fight for nations that were occupied by the Soviets had there story almost wiped out and many of them were murdered by the Soviets when they returned to there still occupied nations probably out of fear that they would mount a trained resistance to the Soviet occupiers and there puppet governments.
originally posted by: Kenzo
You see, Soviet and the Nazis were in alliance . Okey ...that was long time ago, but have they talked about this in honest way ? Did they even try to hide this ? Did they censor and delete facts about it and now blame nazis as an excuse to liberate Ukraine ?
To me it look`s like they were friends with the German nazis in their own wish.....Only because Hitler betrayed them they then ended with war with them. But we should not forget what happened before the war between them, as it shows their true spirit . This denazify Ukraine thing is stubid crap when we look they were itself in alliance with the real nazis .
So there`s that.
originally posted by: vNex92
The Soviets, Rus was never freinds with the Nazis and this is another case of russophobia/whataboutism
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a non aggression pact
Their were groups especially from Poland and the Ukraine that sided with the Nazis against the Soviets
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Poland may disagree.
Yes because of Soviet behaviour in those countries.
originally posted by: Quintilian
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Poland may disagree.
The pact was with each other, not with Poland. As I said it was aimed at allowing them to peruse their interests in the region without direct conflict with each other...Stalin knew he wasn't ready for war with Germany and thought this would buy him time (a miscalculation as it happened). Part of the reason for the pact was so they could divide Poland. Unfortunately, that's the sort of thing Empires do.
Yes because of Soviet behaviour in those countries.
Whatever the reason, Putin is correct that extremists/Nazis exist and have too big a say in the politics and military affairs of Ukraine. Whether that is a genuine reason for his military operation or not (I have doubts), it does seem to be a fact. It would seem to be a small problem compared to the threats the US poses in the region.
originally posted by: Quintilian
Whatever the reason, Putin is correct that extremists/Nazis exist and have too big a say in the politics and military affairs of Ukraine.
originally posted by: Spacespider
Hitler was flirting with all the big players and they flirted back
Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided.
originally posted by: ScepticScot
a reply to: SRPrime
So much wrong with you post its difficult to know what to cover.
Germany declared war on the US.
The Berlin Wall was built more than 15 years after ww2
Japan was still fighting so the war wasn't over.
Not too mention your nice bit of holocaust denial