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Warnings from the past
Last week
the European parliament screened Edvins Snore’s ‘The Soviet Story’, a film which
shows shocking details from recently uncovered archive documents revealing how
the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the Holocaust, including footage
of how a delegation of the German Gestapo and SS went to the Soviet Union to
learn how to build concentration camps
If mankind has adequately appraised the Nazi regime, then the role of the Soviet
regime in the tragic events of the 20th century is a long way from having been
properly evaluated. ‘The Soviet Story’ makes a significant contribution to
facilitating the establishment of a common approach towards such events of the
past, events which form an integral part of the history of the whole of Europe.
In ‘The Soviet Story’, opinions about this tragic period of history are
expressed by a number of MEPs such as Christopher Beazley, Ari Vatanen, Wojciech
Roszkowski, Michael Gahler, André Brie and others. The film crew also
interviewed leading western historians Norman Davies, Nicolas Werth and
Françoise Thom.
The Soviet Story is not just about an Allied power that helped the Nazis to kill
Jews. It’s about the Soviet regime slaughtering its own people on an industrial
scale. Deportation, execution and torture were a post-war reality for millions
of people. Concentration camps were scattered throughout both Europe and
Siberia. In many of them, horrific medical experiments were performed on humans.
In Butugychag camp in Magadan, the KGB used thousands of prisoners as
guinea-pigs, experimenting with human brains. Many of these prisoners were still
alive during these experiments. “People were being killed day and night
throughout the biggest country in the world. Stalin even got to the point of
killing people by random, by quotas” said Norman Davies, historian and a
professor at Cambridge university.
Assisted by the west, the Soviet power triumphed on 9 May 1945, but the complete
story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told, as its crimes were
made taboo for the west until now. ‘The Soviet Story’ reveals the reality of the
Soviet regime, including the great famine in Ukraine (1932/33), the Katyn
massacre (1940), the SS-KGB partnership, Soviet mass deportations and medical
experiments in the gulags. And these are just a few of the subjects covered by
the documentary...
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Further information:
04.06.2009:
http://www.prokarelia.net/en/?x=artikkeli&article_id=1810&author=10;
30.10.2008: Documentary Review: ‘The Soviet Story’
Film draws parallels and depicts cooperation between Hitler and Stalin
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/6382/;
www.Ostdeutsches-Forum.net/en
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