Churchill Sent 2 Million Russian Refugees to Certain Death at the End of WWII - White Russians, Cossacks, Slovenians, Croats & Serbs former POWs who were certain they would be killed or sentenced to the labor camps turned over to the Russian secret police & forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union
(russia-insider.com)https://russia-insider.com/en/history/churchill-sent-2-mil-russian-refugees-certain-death-end-wwii/ri22084In 1941 after the demise of the brief cynical alliance between Hitler and Stalin, Germany invaded Russia taking several million prisoners in the first three months of their offensive, many of whom with the inhabitants of the invaded regions regarded the Germans as liberators, who would overthrow the Communists and restore their freedom.
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Some surrendered Russian Army units marched to meet their supposed liberators with bands playing, while Nazi propaganda films showed Russian peasants cheering as the German troops paraded through their villages in flower strewn glory. After that however they were thrown into wired camps on the open steppe, where millions died during the cruel winter of 1941-42.
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This actually mirrors the treatment German POWs had received after surrendering to US troops in 1945, whence fifteen million or so who had been left in open fields at the behest of General Eisenhower, who had rejected their status as POWs and had them reclassified as "enemy combatants," perished of exposure. Eisenhower's Rhine Meadows Death Camps.