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3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955).[4]

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    9 days ago

    Agreed fuck Nazis.

    But also fuck those who mistreat their POWs.

    USSR had a chance to take the high road and instead commited pseudo-genocide in Ukraine and killed millions of their own citizens in gulag.

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      9 days ago

      Nice, double genocide theory.

      Take the high road? As in let all the Nazis fuck off to Argentina?

      7/10 Nazis killed were at the hands of the red army. We have the soviets to thank for ending WWII and curbing German Nazism, plain as. They literally saved the world.

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        9 days ago

        So it your mind there’s no middle ground between letting every Nazi go off scot free and murdering a third of your prisoners of war indiscriminately?

        They deserved to go on trial. Not be indiscriminately worked to death.