The Last Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians by Britain & the United States PDF
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Discusses the fate of Russian prisoners of war who were returned to Russia as a result of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 between the western Allies of World War II and the Soviet Union.
This is a fascinating and depressing story of how the Allied powers (Britian and the United States) turned over Russian citizens to the Soviet Union in the immediate aftermath of World War 2. Like most historical acounts concerning communist Russia, it's a story filled with needless tragedy and terror.
As the Allies began their 1944 invasion of France and began their march west to Berlin, they aquired hundreds of thousands of Russians who, for various reasons, had donned a German uniform to fight against the Soviets. Several Russians willingly did so out of their hatred for the communists, while several others were forced by the Germans by being offered a "choice" of either starving to death in a German POW camp, or joining the German army. Several of these soldiers had families that traveled with their German units. Several of these soldiers were Russian citizens, while others were citizens of other countries that fell under communist control and were forced to fight in the Red Army. One prominent Soviet general was allowed to form his own unit of former Red Army soldiers in the German army.
But the majority of these Russians in German uniforms were forced into German service against their will.
This is a fascinating and depressing story of how the Allied powers (Britian and the United States) turned over Russian citizens to the Soviet Union in the immediate aftermath of World War 2. Like most historical acounts concerning communist Russia, it's a story filled with needless tragedy and terror.
As the Allies began their 1944 invasion of France and began their march west to Berlin, they aquired hundreds of thousands of Russians who, for various reasons, had donned a German uniform to fight against the Soviets. Several Russians willingly did so out of their hatred for the communists, while several others were forced by the Germans by being offered a "choice" of either starving to death in a German POW camp, or joining the German army. Several of these soldiers had families that traveled with their German units. Several of these soldiers were Russian citizens, while others were citizens of other countries that fell under communist control and were forced to fight in the Red Army. One prominent Soviet general was allowed to form his own unit of former Red Army soldiers in the German army.
But the majority of these Russians in German uniforms were forced into German service against their will.
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