Posted on 04/27/2019 3:57:31 AM PDT by vannrox
Pretty rare photos from a village in Belarus during the 1970s, 1975 to be exact. The people of the village made WW2 victory parade themed platforms for the parade. Each platform is a sort of show of its own. Like this first one.
Did they have a parade showing the rapes and murders by soviet commie pigs in Berlin and elsewhere
That parade didn’t just have a theme. It had a whole history lesson to share!
The Soviet union obsessed over World war 2 for 2 reasons- because 20 million of its people were killed, and because it was the only time in its godforsaken blood-soaked history it had the moral high ground.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. What about what they did to the Poles. I wonder if the Poles are the Czechs wanted to have a similar parade in ‘75 what would the Russians have done.
“I wonder if the Poles are the Czechs wanted to have a similar parade in ‘75 what would the Russians have done.”
The Czechs found out in 1957.
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Communism never had a moral high ground
They held no moral high ground; plenty of those 20 million died fighting for the Axis (Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators, and that only went sour when Soviets slipped behind the lines to sabotage that deal by spurring German reprisals against civilians - they admitted it after the wall came down). They had already invaded the Baltic states and half of Poland before Hitler attacked them (they had arranged those invasions/seizures with Hitler beforehand), and in the 1930s had already killed millions of their own people (hence the Ukrainian support for the Axis). Other countries with nothing but positive feelings towards the Western Allies participated in Operation Barbarossa because of Soviet threats to their freedom BEFORE the war; that is why resistance was so stiff even after it became clear the war was lost.
The Soviets held no moral high ground; we lowered our own image by supporting them - and Eastern Europeans in particular don’t mind saying so to this day.
Most depressing movie ever, about the Nazi invasion of Belarus.
Made in 1985.
I went to college in the ‘80s with a girl (Kathy) whose Ukrainian “baba” (grandmother) had the misfortune of living in both Soviet and later Nazi camps. She said the Nazis treated them better. In fact , one of the Nazis saved Kathy’s mother from drowning when she was very young.
Baba was one tough old woman. She was toothless, knew little English, and hoarded everything from old corn flakes boxes to pieces of string. Everyone loved her.
The “Nazis” on those floats are holding SKS’s, AK-47’s and Makarov pistols.
You’d think there would be some souvenir German guns somewhere.
Oh yeah, buried in flower beds, that’s where.
Ukrainians in German uniforms chased out remnants of the SS holding Prague and freed it handing it over to the Czech locals. Only to be turned over to the Commies and be subsequently executed.
Of course, we didn’t have a chummy non-aggression pact with the Japanese at the time, either...:)
After all, if the proletariat are expending energy doing parades against Nazi atrocities, they are less likely to do anti-people being dragged off to the Gulags parades!
That said, I do find the pictures fascinating.
And KearnyIrish2 is right: Our conduct in yielding Eastern Europe to the Soviets at the end of the war at Yalta is a black stain on us in the West.
Of course, FDR in his enfeebled state was being advised by people like this man circled below, thought to be Alger Hiss, who was a confirmed Soviet agent.
When FDR was told earlier that Hiss was suspected of being a Soviet Agent, FDR told the person in obscene language that he had no idea what he was talking about. He didn't buy it. But it was true.
I look forward to a parade showing 7 million Ukrainian farmers deliberately starved to death in the Holomodor and the small, different, highly left-wing and educated group charged with carrying it out.
However, it was the Nazi racial policies that turned much of that sympathy into hatred.
Another reason we kept giving the Soviets so much aid, was that Stalin kept threatening to drop out of the war and make a separate peace with Hitler. True, the Soviets were confronting most of the German Armed forces....however, it was because of Stalin's incompetency, the bungling yes-men that STalin replaced them with, and the time it took for competent majors and colonels to reach rank was the reason the Soviets lost so many men.
We faced the Japanese Empire pretty much alone, with a smaller percentage of our forces dedicated to fighting them (the bulk of our effort was to fight Hitler), and yet only lost 111,606 men in the nearly four years we fought there.
I do think we agree that the Soviet Union was the most evil nation of the 20th Century. The reasons the Nazis had to be stopped was because the Germans are much smarter people, and Hitler was a jackass.
Alger Hiss was later shown to have earned the Order of Lenin in secret.
How funny, that the UN symbol is so similar to that of the USSR.
I wonder why that is.
My dad had a Marine Corps friend, whose parents were Latvians who fled the Soviets at the end of World War II. The mother was ambivalent about the Nazis (they were ethnic Germans), but they despised the Soviets.
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