Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!CUNYVMS1!DLV From: DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Re: Who persecuted the Jews?????? Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 90 13:46:00 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 20 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway Original_To: JNET%"disarm-l@albnyvm1" JP, I remember reading somewhere that the number of French executed after WWII for collaboration with the Germans exceeded the number of French executed or deported by the Germans during WWII. Do you know if this is correct? I sort of doubt it, unless the latter figure does not include the Jews and the frontline casualties. What is the first figure anyway? Re genocide: if you read Solzhenitsyn, read the part about small ethinic groups (crimean tartars, kalmyks, et al) being rounded up solely because of their ethnicity, put onto trains and sent not into camps (which is where Solzhenitsyn was, and he writes mostly about what he himself saw) but into central asian desert. 60% of the deportees died during the deportation itself, presumably mostly the children and the elderly. By the way, I think I saw a mention on this list that Stalin was not necessarily a 'good guy'. Hmm. If the '30's, '40's or early 50's, if you uttered such heresy in a liberal company like this, you'd forever be known as a nazi sympathiser and might get into serious trouble. Gotta be careful with what you say or post. D