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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 23:03:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 23:03:52 1986
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> > [Tom Keller] 
> >    IN any case, thh whole point here is that while the Soviets may take things
> > to greater extremes, I cannot think of anything that the Soviets do, to their
> > own citizens, as well as to other nations, that we ourselves in the US do not
> > do, to some extent or another.
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> [Clayton Cramer]
> How many American prisoners of war were sent to prison camps after World War
> II out of fear that they might have been exposed to Western ideas?  How many
> American prisoners of war had to be returned by force to America?  Before 
> you try to claim that these sort of things didn't happen to Soviet soldiers,
> I have a friend who remembers seeing it happen at the end of war -- Soviet
> POWs begging the Germans to hide them from their countrymen.
> 
> America isn't perfect, and especially in the past, the government and the
> society's treatment of minorities has been really abysmal, but claims like
> the one in your last paragraph are utterly WRONG.
> 
> Tom, you are shockingly ignorant of history.
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Clayton actually understates the situation.  Many returning Russian POWs
were killed by Stalin's orders.  He was paranoid about the presence of
German collaborators and/or Western agents in the returning POWs.
	Actually, there WERE a reasonable number of collaborators among the
POWs.  To make sure he got them, Stalin killed or imprisoned most (perhaps
nearly all) returning POWs.
	    Tom, you are shockingly ignorant of history.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan