Posted on 04/14/2015 9:45:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Image the rest in a Yugoslavian accent:
Polish man is fishing, catch big fish. Fish say, "Don't eat me! Don't eat me! I am magic fish! I give you three wishes if you let me go.
Polish man think, says "Okay, first wish, I want all people of China to come to Poland, then go home.
Fish say, "Okay, all people of China come to Poland then go home. What is second wish?"
Polish man say, "I want all people of China to come to Poland then go home again."
Fish say, "Okay, all people of Poland come to Poland and go home again. What is third wish?"
Polish man say, "I want all people of China to come to Poland then go home AGAIN!"
Fish say, "Okay, all people of China come to Poland then go home again. But why do you wish same wish three times?"
Polish man say, "All people of China come to Poland and go home three times, THEY GO THROUGH RUSSIA SIX TIMES!"
LOL!
Incidentally, before the Germans were marched through Moscow, they were starved for a few days, then fed a thin cabbage soup heavily laced with laxatives. Just to entertain the crowd.
Stalin would have started the war by 1943, when he figured the Red Army would be strong enough to go on the offensive.
He counted on a War in the West, that would bleed the German, French and British armies dry. Turns out France falling so quickly was a blessing in disguise.
Yeah well, Soviet POWs didn’t fare too well under the Nazis, nor did the ones who were lucky enough to survive the Nazis, when they returned to the Soviet Union.
Which would explain why, when you watch the video of this event, the last thing you see are Russian street cleaner trucks hosing down the streets.
Stalin did not get the result he wanted from this spectacle. Most of the Russians watched with pity more than anger; the women cried, saying “They are just like our boys.”
This was the only time the Russians did this.
I have, or had, a distant cousin from the part of the family that stayed in Italy. He ended up as a telegraph operator in one of the units Mussolini sent to the Russian front. And that’s all anyone knows. Disappeared, either a nameless body among the tens of thousands dead somewhere near Stalingrad, or one of the tens of thousands who died namelessly in Soviet captivity. There’s one photo I’ve seen, a little guy in a big wool uniform overcoat, looking tired and holding a cigarette.
Those are the sad stories that seem alien to Americans, but were more than common to the Europeans. The Germans had a phrase for the phenomenon: “Im Osten gefallen,” or “Fell in the East.” That was the epitaph for the son, brother, or husband who went to Russia and was simply never heard from again.
The neighbor of a good friend is German; her older brother met that fate. Not after he’d done a tour in Russia, came home on leave, went back and disappeared. However, she said that when he was home on leave, his comment was “We can’t lose this war. If they find out what we’ve done they’ll kill us all.”
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