tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post1022748594121484955..comments2023-05-31T14:16:36.022+03:00Comments on Otto's Random Thoughts: Stabbing People in the Back is an Old Soviet TrickJ. Otto Pohlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-50054041164116445832011-04-19T13:50:32.346+03:002011-04-19T13:50:32.346+03:00Gabriele:
I think the Soviet leadership knew what...Gabriele:<br /><br />I think the Soviet leadership knew what it was doing. It obviously did not inform many lower level officials. But, that was deliberate not a result of disorganization.<br /><br />Diary:<br /><br />Yes, the Volga Germans were deported not evacuated. I used the term forcibly evacuated with regards to the Crimean Germans because in August 1941 they were temporarily resettled in the North Caucasus to assist with the harvest. It was only in October 1941 that the Stalin regime deported them to special settlements in Kazakhstan along with the Russian-German population already resident in the North Caucasus.J. Otto Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-32578414886798800682011-04-19T02:34:23.657+03:002011-04-19T02:34:23.657+03:00Ive always found it important, in the case of the ...Ive always found it important, in the case of the deportation of the Volga Germnans and some other Soviet minorities, to point out the difference between deportation and evacuation. There were people who were evacuated during the war. But the Volga Germans were not temporarily evacuated but permanently dispossessed, both in terms of their homes, houses, lands, culture and in terms of their human rights. Stalin's collective deportation and labor camp internment of the Russian Germans was against basic human rights. And the excuse is cynical. Firstly, there cannot be an entire minority (which in most cases felt Soviet citizens) punished by labor camp and deportation for a war that another country (Germany) started. Furthermore, even the cynical excuses and "justifications" by Stalin would as a maximum point to temporary evacuation (without labor camp internment) and return after the war. This however, as it seems, was never planned. So yes, one can definitely speak of genocide of this minority.StunningDiaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12678957070292373515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-69572096218767676112011-04-11T21:31:37.056+03:002011-04-11T21:31:37.056+03:00Or, could it possibly be that the left hand didn&#...Or, could it possibly be that the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing? The Soviets were always a very disorganized bunch. Just a thought.<br />Interesting post!Gabriele Goldstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04481625919437738131noreply@blogger.com