• Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Pardon the fact I’m drawing from a comment I made three years ago to make this point; you are “agreeing to disagree” that the deaths of 27 million Soviet peoples - which I remind you that as the Soviets were multicultural federation means white European Russians weren’t the only people dying - was just “The Russians getting their just desserts”, therefore I think you are at least obliged to read what just desserts you are defending.

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    Relating to the siege of Leningrad I recently learned in looking up information on a plot point in the movie The North Star relating to what the nazi doctors were doing to save the lives of nazi invaders, and

    CW: Crimes against Humanity, genocide, physician malpractice

    Much like how the doctors in the movie were killing children by draining them of their blood and saving the lives of nazi soldiers through blood transfusions, there was a concentration camp just south-west of Leningrad where a mass grave of 1,362 bodies, with 675 of them the bodies of babies and children, was discovered a few years back. It was called the Vyritsa Children’s Concentration Camp. It was there that children across the occupied Leningrad region were rounded up and interred there for the purposes of using them as prison labor as well as a “medical resupply center”. Here’s an excerpt from one woman who survived there.

    Nadezhda Gavrilovna Belezekova (she was then four years old) recalled how they “crawled under the fence, from which one could reach the bridge over the Oredezh with one’s hand.” On the other side of the shore, adults lived and worked. The dogs that were assigned to guard the camp did not bark and did not give out children, as they knew each prisoner well. Already after the war, N.G. Belezekova learned that “a woman who lived in the same barracks with her mother regularly “knocked” on the fugitives”, and that thanks to her “efforts”, Nadezhda once almost died in the punishment cell.

    Children were punished in a variety of ways: they were beaten with a whip, deprived of lunch, placed in a punishment cell - a cold and damp basement of an old stone building. From more healthy children, the Nazis periodically took blood for their wounded soldiers and officers. As a rule, these children did not survive later … Although, fortunately, this fate has passed for many. According to some prisoners, the children were repeatedly taken somewhere, after which they disappeared.

    In the evenings, an ambulance came to the camp, ostensibly for “disinfection”. Former prisoner Alexander Roslov recalled : “In Vyritsa, I sat in a bunker (punishment cell) more than once, when I said the wrong thing, ran the wrong way. I cannot say that they took blood in the camp. But my sister Lena Roslova died there, in the infirmary. She said: “Sasha, take me out of here. I don’t even have blood anymore, but they take everything. She was gone the next day."

    Source: Newspaper Gatchinskaya Pravda

    The more I read from the pages of history, the deeper my belief that fascism must be opposed at all costs. Nothing short of the total extermination of fascism must be acceptable.