RUSSIA GAINED IN SOLITUDE THE SECOND WORLD WAR
IN EUROPE
The commemoration of anniversary
of the beginning of the second world war demonstrates the western
disgrace again, the German invasion being compared to the Russian
sacrifice and comparing the slaughter of Polish officials in Katyn
(15 — 20.000 dead persons) and for political causes, with the sacrifice
of million Russians, between 25 and 30 and of them nearly
20 million civil innocent persons, women and children mostly, again the
propaganda acts without bearing in mind either the facts or the
magnitude of the numbers.
The original object of this essay was
to show, specially to the the Spanish-speaking readership up ,an
incredible fact for the clear thing that is and the ignored that
it has been supported in the western mass media undoubtedly
of a deliberate form, as it is that the winner almost
exclusive of the second world war in Europe has been Russia, the
ancient Soviet Union to be more exact.
We will make use of the thread of the events to discover
some other ignored facts and of an enormous magnitude, like the
slaughter of a form very cruel of million Russian prisoners
(between 3 and 4) in only a few months of 1941 for the
Germans and as there is false the idea of that the German people
was ignoring the murders in mass and the cruelty against the Jews and
other races but rather it was approving it in his immense
majority, as well as other ignored facts and of big importance.
There exist many other topics, the German groups of extermination that
were going behind the combatants’ first line and which mission was
to exterminate entire populations, to every population, men women and
children as one has never seen in the history of the civilized
peoples, but there is so extensive the topic and so many
cruelties committed by the Germans that this is a source
of other essays and on whom there is abundant bibliography
although not so much as it had to. It is curious
that the suffering of the German people, in his severest form
of only a few months (ends of 1944 and beginning of 1945)
it occupies many other essays in the western bibliography that the
years of suffering of the Russian people from 1941 until 1945,
another sample of the false western information about very important
facts, which last example has been the information of the war
of Osetia of the South, where the aggressors (Georgia) were presented
like the invaded ones, but this is another topic. Also
it is interesting like most of the criminal Nazi they escaped
without punishment and as the West Germany protected them and set free
without any type of shame, even raising them to high places
in the new German army, Germany even has waited until 2009
to rehabilitate the Germans considered to be traitors
by the Nazi and has closed the access to the general public
to the files on the holocaust and the fields of extermination
when they returned the Allied Forces to themselves, but unfortunately
we have no space for all this.
We will analyze briefly the context in which the Hispanic speakers
we have received information from the 50s We must remember that the
context in the world was moving, full cold war, and the Russians were
identified immediately like communists and this was almost how to say
devils, there was nothing worse. We were receiving all the information
from the western news agencies, especially from the United States and England
and the possibilities that it was coming to us some trustworthy
information of what happened in the communist countries was
practically void, to this, it is just to say it, also
he was contributing the stubbornness informative of the above
mentioned systems and a propaganda of few veracity on behalf
of them, if some onlooker was tuning in to the broadcasting
stations in short wave in Spanish of this epoch and later, the
news about the Eastern bloc was of the harness of "medal to the
winning tractor man of the harvest of..." and other similars, what
it does not attract precisely.
By it all the information, magazines, documentaries, books, "comics"
warlike, etc., was disproportionately inclined of the Anglo-American
effort talking each other the real winners of the war, the Russians, like
something tangential. It must not us surprise since the Anglo-Saxons
have managed to make to forget almost that the discoverer
of America was Spain, fact that is difficult to think
in the textbooks of the United States that they dignify Columbus and
not Spain, as well as that practically the whole West of the
United States was a Mexican until it was snatched them
by a war in 1848. Even current video collections dedicate more
than 90% of his chapters to the Anglo-American effort, the battle
of England, the landing of Normandy, etc. and only the rest
to the struggle in the west of Europe, and more recently Spanish
mass media after there are fulfilled seventy years of the beginning
of the second world war again incline the scales of the
Anglo-American side, for example on having quoted fifteen warlike movies,
one is not even Russian, not even the wonderful one "Come and look"
of Elem Klimov (1985).
Assuming therefore that this disinformation comes from background and
continues, making true the saying of which "calumny that something stays".
We will try to clarify at least some aspects of the truth
and give some rules so that the interested parties study in depth the
topic for his account.
The introductions of the war
The war between Russia (from now on I will
use the term of Russia although in most of the occasions
we will refer to the ancient USSR) and Germany was inevitable,
already one of the causes of the first world war was the worry
on the part of Germany of the rapid and enormous development
that was having the tsarist Russia. With his men’s immense potential, territory
and prime matters was destined to be the first world potency, but the
wars and the communism entrusted themselves of cutting this hope,
it is necessary to ask us where she should come without
this consecutive series of catastrophes, bearing in mind what
it has obtained in spite of all this.
Relationship between the communist Russia and Germany between the end
of the first world war and 1941, they were even cordial, be enough
to point out some examples as that after the defeated Germany should
be deprived of army by the agreement of Versailles,
it tested his tactics of tanks and aviation in Russia that
transferred area for his practices and the necessary material means, this also
contributed that the Russian officials were meeting better his future
adversaries.
An internal fact that it affected gravely to the capacity
of army of the USSR there were the purges that Stalin carried out
between him about 1937. Be enough to say that
of 90 generals only they survived six, of 180 commanders
of division, only 36 escaped and 34.000 officials were purged
of one or another form, (a), most of them executed
or exiled to works forced in the GULAG as it was named
the set of Russian forced labor camps.
Another sample of the existing collaboration between Germany and the USSR
in these days was the supply of all kinds of materials
of Russia to Germany, even considered strategic and that they
continued until the same day of beginning of the war and let’s not
forget a fact that surprised everybody like the non-aggression pact
between them in 1939.
It did not have minor importance that big part of the western border
of the USSR, which was bordering on Germany precisely, had been
annexed of Poland recently (1939), since this one had been
distributed — for third time in the recent history — between
Germany and Russia. Precisely by it big part of the Russian
fortifications in the newly annexed part of Poland was not finished
in 1941 when it began the war.
Stalin did not want the war with Germany, at least in this epoch,
no way, it was his worst nightmare. Stalin was a dictator
of the worst specie, a genocide without conscience who allowed
to die of famine million persons in 1931 in Ukraine and
other parts of the USSR preventing even help from being given them, all
this for refusing to the collectivization of the grounds
or simply for not having produced sufficiently harvest as the
five-year plan, although this was largely a fault of the lies
of the proper local communists anxiously for fulfill with the above
mentioned plans and standing out before Moscow. But Stalin was a born
survivor, capable of the biggest perfidies and cruelties to manage
and to continue in the power, concealing even the Lenin’s testament,
for it the war with Germany was one of the biggest dangers
to continue in his all-embracing power.
The advices of the imminent war there were multiple, a lot
of numerous German flights of recognition, enclosed with emergency
landing of some German planes in Russian soil, allowing them the
Russians even to return to Germany with his photos of the
Russian defenses, the same day of the invasion a few hours earlier
a German soldier deserted communicating the exact hour of the
invasion, but they did not believe him, also the English secret service
communicated the invasion, but Stalin did dull ears to all the notices,
good is true that there had been several previous false alarms, but
especially it was he the one that was refusing to admit the
clear facts grasped to Hitler’s word, it even prevented the Russian
troops from putting themselves in the maximum state of alert
as he was requested by some of his generals that saw the
imminent invasion.
The war
On June 22, 1941 the German troops
invaded the USSR, the first ones in suffering his advance there were the
frontier guards, who were living with his families in the houses close
to his garrison and that, mostly, perished with them. The Germans resorted
to all kinds of dirty tricks from the beginning, like calling the
Russian border guards communicating to them that had to give them
an important notice and to machine-gun them as they were going
out, or to send saboteurs with Russian and Russian uniform speakers
behind the Russian lines, creating the chaos in the Russian communications
the first days of the war. The German aviation destroyed almost any
Russian aviation (that was superior in number to the German
in ground, most of his attacks surprise they were successful, except
in Sevastopol where the admiral to the control yes had set
in and the alert to the garrison, suffering the most serious personal
risk, since in this epoch any mistake in the fulfillment of the
orders was punished by the severest sorrow for the culprit and his family,
we already do not say a disobedience. For it the attack
to Sevastopol was not successful that the Germans were wishing, since the
antiaircraft defenses and of the fleet they frustrated the attack. How
many movies have we seen of the attack of the Japanese
to Pearl Harbour and how many of the German attack
to Sevastopol? Another sample of the different pole of measuring
Anglo-Saxon.
From the beginning the Germans realized that the war in Russia was not
going to be like the easy battles of the western front
in France, or Belgium, the Russian soldiers were defending themselves
up to the death, even in spite of being in many cases
awfully armed.
Stalin when the German invasion was clear and general Zhukov gave order that
was waking up him, since it was in his residence of the
outskirts of Moscow, communicating to him that "our cities are being
bombarded", it shut itself up in an entire silence, being
isolating for proper decision several days, just in the moment that his
decisions were more necessary, Until a commission headed by Molotov,
went to look for him so that it was returning to his
functions, a sample of the mentality of Stalin that
it clarifies why of so many purges murders, etc.,
it is that when they went to look for him he believed that
they were going to put him in prison, until Molotov said to him
that only they wanted that he was on board again. Stalín was always
frightened all at once or a conspiracy against him,
as himself had done against so many people many times.
The German quick war or "blitzkreig" it it was not so much
in Russia, be enough to point out that the Germans were late
more in coming to Moscow that the French in 1812, Napoleon
brought in in Russia on June 24, 1812 and occupied Moscow
on September 14, Hitler invaded Russia on June 22, 1941 and
December 5, 1941 came to the suburbs of Moscow, where
it was pushed back. Although Russia was facing alone the whole German
army, since this one did not have in these dates any other open
front.
From the beginning there was strong resistance, facing the Germans
in multiple battles hundreds of Russian tanks, nevertheless these had
to suffer a chaos of communications and an absence
of control of the air space as what the Germans had many tricks
in his favor, but in some cases the Russians pushed the German attack
back and even began counter-attacking being able to invade German
territory, but Stalin it prevented, giving order not
to counter-attack when heavy German bombings were already suffered and the
invasion was clear.
In this first phase of the war the Germans were successful
in there surrounded enormous masses of Russian soldiers who after
heroic defense did not have any more destination than the captivity except
a minority that managed to break the blockade and return to his
lines.
The destination of these soldiers was in the most atrocious way, the
Germans had not arranged enough material to receive them and they were
surprised of their own success, taking refuge in the excuse
of which the USSR had not signed the convention of Geneva, they
condemned them to the most atrocious death, the majority died
of famine in a few months, entire divisions (1 division =
10.000 men approximately) were left outdoors but many were tortured of the
most varied forms, At least 3.300.000 soldiers were murdered in these
months1 (a).
The war against Russia was a war of extermination, very different
from the conventional wars, the whole population wanted
to be exterminated by the most diverse methods, from the famine
to the execution, to leave space to the German "settlers".
The gas "Ziklon" with which million persons would be exterminated
in the German concentration camps was tested first with 300 Russian
prisoners. The death for this gas, also unlike what is thought, was quite
less benign, the death usually occurred after approximately ten or fifteen
minutes, let’s do the test taking a chronometer and let’s think about
the agony of all these human beings during these minutes suffocating. The
scenes inside the gas cameras were Dantesque, since the prisoners were trying
to go out where they were having entered and the strongest were
setting on themselves on more dweebs, when it was talking each
other of civil, the men were above, the women below and at the bottom
of everything the children, all this mixed with blood, rusts and feces.
Certainly it is very different to speak that the Germans killed
million human beings to be brought in in the detail.
The battles before Moscow were multiple, also we must bear in mind
that the countries satellites of the Germans, Finland (that had been
Russian until 1917), Romania, Bulgaria, etc, they attacked also to Russia,
the Finnish attack was especially serious therefore he supposed
of danger for Leningrad, current Saint Petersburg, the second Russian city
in importance and that it had been the capital from his foundation
for Peter the Great until Lenin transferred the capital status to Moscow
"provisionally".
The fortitude of Brest-Likov, just on the border, resisted several
months, even in spite of the lack of supplies and water, giving
an example of heroism to which they would continue many
different for all the geography of the USSR.
After the fall of Kiev and Minsk, the capitals of Ukraine and
Belorussia respectively, the Germans came in December, 1941 to Moscow
where there suffered his first big defeat, even with panic scenes inside the
German army before the irruption of the new Russian weapon, the rocket
launchers "katiusha", the new tanks T-34, the enormous effort gunner and the
Siberian troops of reinforcement, troops that had paraded a few hours
before his march at the head before Stalin and the biggest dome
of the state of the USSR in the red square the anniversary
of the revolution of October 27 according to the Julian
calendar who was governing in Russia in this epoch, for us that
we are ruled by the Gregorian calendar,
it is November 7. Let’s think what it should have been this
parade under the snow of a few great troops of them newly
arrived persons and that a few hours later they were going to die
largely in the front placed to only a few quilometros from
there, so it was fighting in the outskirts of Moscow.
A similar situation, although in minor scale, it happened
in Madrid when the international brigades came to defend the city
in November, 1937.
Here in the outskirts of Moscow the first importance reverse was
infringed to the German army, considering the winter arrival, the Germans
and his propagandists adduced that it was stemming from the low
temperatures, to that the troops were not prepared, etc., but the true
thing is that it stemmed from the technical, tactical and human
superiority of the Russians. Germany is not placed in the
Ecuador precisely and his winters are very severe with temperatures under
zero.
The Germans were despising the capacity of the army and of the
Russian people, for it the appearance of tanks better than theirs
in rapidity, they surprised shielding and fire potency very much.
Nevertheless the proximity of the Germans to Moscow produced panic
scenes in the civil population of the city, even with anti-communist
scenes, which diminished in a few days thanks to the performance
of the Soviet special police the NKVD and to which Stalin, unlike his
government remained in Moscow.
Also the Germans came to the proximities of Leningrad in the
winter 1941, surrounding it with help of the Finnish troops. The
encirclement was becoming closer staying only the possibility of giving
food and ammunitions the city for the lake Ladoga submitted to the German
bombing by ground and air, when this one froze there was created "the
highway of the life" that at least took enough meal and ammunition
to resist and to survive, nevertheless the suffering of the
Russian population of Leningrad was enormous, writing one of the most
tragic pages of the war. In almost 900 days of siege
approximately a million persons died of famine, entire families were
dying of famine in a few apartments without running water
or heating, let’s imagine what can be this in a climate
with 20 or 30th low zero. More persons died in Leningrad,
a million of famine and between 1.100.000 and 1.500.000 including the
military men2, that the
sum of all the North American soldiers (300.000) and Englishmen (400.000)
in the whole war.
There exists a horrifying diary of a 11-year-old Russian girl,
Tanya Savicheva, in Leningrad who is reporting the death, one for
one, of all his family. Again, unlike "The Newspaper of Ann Frank",
this one daily is not completely known in Occident.
In the winter 1941 it went over therefore to a certain
stabilization of the front, doing smithereens to him the German hopes
of an easy and rapid victory. We must think that if the
invasion began in June, 1941 in December of the same year
already the Germans had suffered his first big defeat in addition
to numerous counterattacks. That is to say only six months after
the beginning of the invasion.
Other of many ignored aspects and that was a determinant factor for
the Russian victory, was the transfer of thousands of factories
in danger of coming across at a sure distance in the
Urals or beyond them, in Siberia. This immense effort,
to dismantle a factory informs, to move it, to mount
it and to put it in functioning within a period
of truly scarce time is one of the biggest facts realized
by a country. Let’s think that only one medium factory needs for his
transport: more than three thousand railroad cars!, and, on having come,
the factory must have prepared soil, waters down, electricity and other
facilities necessary for his functioning. For the eyes of a Latin
American this organization prodigy is even more praiseworthy, given our
deficit precisely in these aspects. The Russians moved 1.523 factories
to surer areas of the river Volga, Siberia and Central Asia only
between July and November, 1941, more than million and a half cars was
used3.
The German offensive after be stopped in the North focused towards
the South of Russia and in the spring 1942 it stuffed itself
in this direction. Again the heroic acts on the part of the
Russians and other nationalities of the USSR happened, especially the
defense of the peninsula of Crimea and of the cities
of Odesa and Sevastopol, there were examples of a heroism
without limits, as well as of a cruelty, also without
limits on the part of the Germans who, between others, used
to civil like human shields opposite to his troops on having
attacked Soviet positions. In September, 1942 Stalingrado was reached,
very much one has spoken about this battle, where 478.741 Russian soldiers died
and 393.575 were hurt, and the civil population did not count, but little
of any episodes so atrocious as the battle itself. Before the
attack for ground an air raid happened to Stalingrado to the
city on August 23, 1942, this attack took for surprise the citizens
who enjoyed a splendid holiday in the parks and walks of the
beautiful city, the slaughter was enormous 5.000 civil ones died this day and
40.0004 in this
week; let’s remember that in all the bombings of London, from 1940
to 1945 dead 43.000 persons5, that day many children remained orphans and many
families without children, there exists a horrifying history
of a Russian city dweller who tried to evacuate the newly orphan
ones to another shore of the river Volga to put them
in safety, and as the huerfanitos were along with the bodies
of his dead parents placing well the clothes to them and as some
of them refused to accompany it, since they did not want
to leave the corpses of his parents and mothers, being exhibited
to an almost sure death with the German advance. Desolated the
charitable city dweller had to leave them and take the rest of the
orphans to another shore.
How many have heard speaking about the bombings of London and how many
of these bombings of Stalingrad?
The battle was enormously bloody, the Germans occupied almost the whole city,
rather her debris, and the Russians had to send the reinforcements and
evacuate the injured men for the rivers under the German fire. It was
a hell in the ground.
Nevertheless the necessary time was gained to prepare the operation Pluto
that it shut up in a bag to the Eighth German army who
was the one that was fighting in Stalingrad, approximately 330.000 men
remained isolated of the rest of the army and to finish with
them was only a time question.
Very much one has spoken about the few German prisoners of Stalingrad that
returned lively of the captivity, but little of his atrocities. For
example, they had inside the encirclement a small field of Russian
prisoners approximately 3.000 — 5.000 men and they allowed them
to die literally of famine, deprived the civil population of his
clothes, even interiors and expelled them from his houses. This in the
Russian winter was to condemn them practically to the death, with the
curious detail of seeing German soldiers with feminine underwear
to wrap itself up, they deprived even the babies and they were
murdering the civil population joining them for couples, for example father
with son or mother with daughter, were giving a shot in the head
to one of and were leaving living other throwing both to the
frozen river.
The dealing to the rest of the civil population was the same way
atrocious many were sent to Krpovka and other fields, but there were
no not even concentration camps there were spaces outdoors surrounded with
wire and in the icy nights many people died of cold, the prisoners
were trying to do hollows in the ground with the naked hands
to escape of the cold. A survivor Valentina Nefyodova told how
in a nearby hole a mother had to a child and
a girl children in his knees, the girl survived but the child died
of cold in his arms on the same
night6.
When one knows all this the punishment of these killers seems small
to him and enormous the Soviet generosity of allowing the return
of some to a few years. We, the Hispanic people must
be proud from that in spite of our many defects we have
never come to the grades of cruelty and barbarism of the
Germans, at least of the massive form in which they took place
and which there informed both the SS and the regular army with the
concession of his people.
Stalingrad was the point of inflection of the war if Moscow
supposed the stagnation of the north front, Stalingrad gave beginning
to the victorious Russian counterattack.
Many battles stayed ahead like the enormous one of Kursk, the biggest
battle of tanks of the history and the invasion of Germany and
the countries satellites, Austria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, etc, but the career
towards the victory started in Stalingrad. The battle of Kursk was
the result of wanting to take the Germans this city reconquered
by the Russians and that had remained isolated like a protrusion
in the front. The Russians foreseeing the German attack created
up to five defense lines, preventing the Germans from taking Kursk
and with better tactics, tactics that the Russian army had been improving
as the war was advancing, defeated the Germans, so much resisting
as in open field. Consequence of this new German defeat was
a counter-offensive (operation Kutuzov) that between other cities Belgorod
and Harkov liberated.
In this battle there happened the biggest battle of tanks of the
history and the Russians demonstrated, again, that they could stop the German
quick war "blitzkreig" and that his tanks and soldiers were better than the
Germans, exiling the myth of the numerical superiority, since the
casualties and the conflicting armies were similar.
Let’s revise a little the dates to see that they were doing rest
of western potency in Europe, now when Russia was beginning already
gaining the war, with an enormous cost of human lives, after having
stopped the advance in Moscow and Leningrad.
Practically not at all, in spite of the insistent request
of Stalin of opening the second front, the Allied Forces,
consciously, allowed to be drained to Russia for debilitate her,
there exist documents that show agreements to the beginning of the
war in this respect. For it the landing in Sicily took place
on July 10, 1943, when the Soviet ones had won in Stalingrad
on February 2, date of capitulation of the Germans and
in the battle of Kursk in the middle of July. Such
an awaited landing of Normandy was not realized until June 6,
1944, when the first Soviet soldiers were already crossing the river Vistula
and entering Poland on July 16 of the same year and June
22 they initiated the operation Bragation that destroyed the center German
group of the army, between 25 and 28 divisions, 350.000 men
in whole7, his
biggest defeat in the war.
That is to say the war was already decisively gained of the
Russian side when the Allied Forces began his western offensive. Let’s not
forget that the percentage of the German army who was fighting against the
Russians was 80% and only 20% was fighting against the western Allied Forces
in these moments. Yes it is of emphasizing the help
in warlike material from the United States that, especially in mobile
material, light vehicles and trucks, allowed to accelerate the Russian
offensive.
On July 17 57.000 German war prisoners were walked in victory
by Moscow with his personal details at the head and, another sample
of the Russian magnanimity, be booed nor struck, but they received
in silence, even some women threw theirs meal to these killers who
had massacred his people, from babies to elders.
The struggle continued fierously until the end of the war, with bloody
battles in the capture of Budapest and Berlin, between other obtained
victories, as it had being a custom, with Russian blood,
It is worth mentioning that has spoken to himself much
of the fanaticism about the Japanese on having been defeated
committing suicide in mass before giving up, and little of the
German fanaticism that also produced the most numerous suicides even
of entire families between them that of the substitute
of Hitler, Goebbles, this must lead us to reflecting
on a race which mothers in his fanaticism kill their own
children.
The Germans knowing of the barbarisms committed by them in the
west, they were running, literally, to be delivered in hands
of the Anglo-Saxons who found much minor resistance than the Russians,
favored by the tactics continued by the Americans that was consisting
of the fact that to the minor resistance, for example a simple
shot from a village, were calling to the aviation so that
it was devastating the village. As it they had very few falls.
These tactics are very similar to the one that the NATO continues
in Afghanistan at present.
Only the battle of Berlin, which ended on May 3, 1945, cost
to the Russians more than 300.000 men, dead persons, injured men
or missing persons8.
In memoriam
It is habitual if one speaks with
German to listen that "they did not know anything" about the treatment
to the Jews or to the working population or to the war
prisoners. Let’s quote simply to Paul Johnson "modern Times" who says:
"million Germans knew that something horrible was done by the Jews. Simply
at the SS 900.000 persons were employed. Countless Germans heard and
saw the trains without end circulating across the night, and they knew his
meaning, as a written down comment remembers — these damned Jews
do not even leave him after one sleeps in the night -".
"The German people knew of the genocide and it was agreeing with him.
Only in the SS there were 900.000 of them and other 1.200.000
in the railroads... thousands of clocks of man and woman,
ballpoints stolen of the victims were distributed between the armed
forces... the recipients they knew from which these goods were coming. The
Germans did very little to protest about what happened
or to help the Jews
to escape..."9
The anti-Semitism was, and it continues, much established in Germany
and Austria already from centuries earlier, a sample, in Austria
before the beginning of the war, when the Jews were already taking
a yellow star that was marking them as such, a Jew with
a stick paw slipped on the ice and spent three hours fallen down
since no Austrian wanted to help a Jew.
Without forgetting the million slaves used in the German industry
or in the particular farms of the whole Germany
in agricultural works. The Soviet ones in his advance towards Germany
were finding continuously trains full of children and kidnapped young
people of Russia, the slave who was getting weak simply was eliminated.
In these crimes the whole German industry was involved
as I. G. Farben, Krupp, Rheinmetall, etc., and the German
society. Werner Von Braun the founder of the North American aerospace
industry in addition to belonging to the divided Nazi, slave
used labor in his bases throwings of rockets V-1 and V-2, where many
of them died. Of course neither Von Braun, nor most of the
persons in charge of the German industry were condemned, only one
negligible minority they were condemned to sorrow reducidísimas like Karl
Krauch the man who chose Auschwitz for a factory of his company (I.
G Farben) who was condemned to six years of jail and others
to sorrow from 18 months until eight years, you suffer quickly
exchanged or reduced by the West Germany, as said the district
attorney of the judgments of Nuremberg Josiah DuBois "this sorrow
would like a funks’ thief"10.
Many of these monsters died placidly in West Germany or they
keep on enjoying a comfortable retirement in Germany
or in other destinations like Canaries islands in Spain
or in South America, let’s remember that from 1945 to 2009 have
happened only 64 years, as what a person with twenty years
in 1945 would have at present 84, for what still there live
enough persons who suffered in his meats this barbarism, a child with
five years in 1939 and that he lived through the cruelty of the
war up to 11 years — if it survived —
it has now (2009) 77 years, that is to say, the memory
is still alive.
When one knows all these facts he is infuriated by the absence
of recognition of the Russian sacrifice for the rest of the
world, especially on the part of the Western Europe, that of not
being for the Russian blood would be under the Nazi yoke.
The commemoration of anniversary of the beginning of the second
world war demonstrates the western disgrace again, the German invasion being
compared to the Russian sacrifice and comparing the slaughter
of Polish officials in Katyn (15 — 20.000 dead persons) and for
political causes, with the sacrifice of million Russians, between
25 and 30 and of them nearly 20 million civil innocent
persons, women and children mostly, again the propaganda acts without bearing
in mind either the facts or the magnitude of the numbers.
I hope that this summary should serve to open the curiosity
of my compatriots of Hispanic language on these
so recent topics and so deliberately forgotten.
by Luis Alcalá
http://universalcuriosity.blogspot.com
1 Rayfield, Donald. Stalin and his hangmen.
2 Harrison E.
Salisbury. The 900 days.
3 Glantz, David M. When
the titans clashed.
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