Posted on Mar 27, 2022
Reports of Russians deporting Ukrainians to camps troubles Stalin survivors
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They were children when the Russian soldiers came for them in the dead of winter 1940.
The armed men who barged into their homes and gave them a half-hour to get dressed and pack a bag were called Soviets back then. And in the early days of World War II, they rousted Poles from their homes in what is now western Ukraine and shipped them off to the gulags in Siberia.
For these survivors, reports that Ukrainians are now being deported to "filtration" camps deep inside Russia brought back painful memories of their own ordeals — mixed with deep sympathy for a new generation of victims.
“I was just 3-and-a-half when the Russians came for us in the middle of the night, but I can still remember the sound of them banging on the door with rifles and bayonets and yelling 'Out! Out!” Marie Wypijewski, 85, told NBC News. "They made my father stand with his face to the wall while my mother packed and dressed us in the warmest clothes she could find."
The armed men who barged into their homes and gave them a half-hour to get dressed and pack a bag were called Soviets back then. And in the early days of World War II, they rousted Poles from their homes in what is now western Ukraine and shipped them off to the gulags in Siberia.
For these survivors, reports that Ukrainians are now being deported to "filtration" camps deep inside Russia brought back painful memories of their own ordeals — mixed with deep sympathy for a new generation of victims.
“I was just 3-and-a-half when the Russians came for us in the middle of the night, but I can still remember the sound of them banging on the door with rifles and bayonets and yelling 'Out! Out!” Marie Wypijewski, 85, told NBC News. "They made my father stand with his face to the wall while my mother packed and dressed us in the warmest clothes she could find."
Reports of Russians deporting Ukrainians to camps troubles Stalin survivors
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On top of that, Stalin effectively practiced genocide when about 3.9 million people died of starvation. Stalin was desperate to establish his collective, proletarian socialist views in Ukraine which many of the farmers of Ukraine resisted
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They came for the Ukrainians. Who's next? The Poles again? Moldovans? Lithuanians? Jews? Christians? Muslims? This isn't about getting rid of the nazis in Ukraine. Anyone who thinks that is a blithering idiot. putin's plan is to reestablish the soviet union. He wants the communist bloc back under his control.
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