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On the whole, inspired by the Communist dictator [Stalin], the pre-Yalta action which was held under the banner of the “Local Council” [of the "Moscow Patriarchate" in 1945] was successful and brought the regime the desired results.
During the course of the Yalta Conference, Stalin secured essential concessions on the question of the preliminary division of Europe and on the forcible repatriation (“return”) to the USSR of prisoners of war (who were declared by Stalin’s regime as traitors and betrayers simply because they were taken prisoner by the Germans – Order No. 26 September 1941), migrants, and many others.
As a result of this decision (up until 1948) with the help of bayonets, automatic rifles and rubber truncheons, there were some 6 million “Soviet” immigrants – Russians, Ukrainians, Belo-russians, Baltic peoples, Poles and other nationalities – who were repatriated from Europe, America and Australia - the majority of these perished in Stalin’s prisons and concentration camps.
Practically all of the European nations participated in this crime against humanity. Tragedies occurred in camps at Kempten, Dachau, Platling and Badaibling (Germany); Rimin, Piza (Italy); Ravensburg and Vangen (France); Yudenburg and Lienz (Austria); in North Africa, Denmark, Norway and other countries. Even neutral Switzerland sullied itself by forcibly deporting internees and refugees from the USSR.
So as not to fall into the hands of the NKVD, many of those who were to be repatriated (men, women, and children), went on hunger strikes or else committed suicide by slicing the main arteries on their necks or hands with razor blades or broken glass; they disemboweled themselves, while others drowned themselves or jumped from the fast moving trains which were taking them back to the USSR.
Attempting to avert mass suicides and the possible breakdown in the Yalta talks, the English and American troops in charge of the unarmed and trusting “White Cossacks”, “Vlasovites” and other anti-Soviet groups - who had voluntarily went over to the side of Western democracy - were in convoys forcibly handed over to the Soviet tribunal. In Lienz, with the aid of automatic weaponry and truncheons, 70 thousand White Cossacks that migrated to Europe in the 1920s were forcibly repatriated.
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| The betrayal of the Cossacks at Lienz (1945) |
The same method of intimidation was applied to thousands of their wives and children, who after refusing to voluntarily repatriate to the USSR, were attacked by the English soldiers applying bats, rifle-butts and even flame-throwers. Hundreds of wives threw themselves and their children under English tanks that were enforcing the repatriation, in the hope that this may stop it. Others threw themselves and their children into the river Drav while others cut their throats.
This terror was so barbarous that one Major, having witnessed it, lost his mind. The next day saw the English soldiers joining the Communist forces on a hunt for those survivors who fled into the hills – the overall number of victims was 150...
Analogical scenes were unfolding in all of the other camps for prisoners of war, immigrants, workers and refugees. This is what the American military newspaper “Stars and Stripes” wrote in their issue of the 23rd of January 1946 about the tragedy in Dachau (Bavaria):
“Dachau, 22.01.46. – Afraid of returning to the country they had betrayed, the Russian prisoners of war fought like beasts so as to self-destruct… Ten individuals committed suicide during a battle with the guards. Another one died in the hospital some time later (they wanted to “edify” and stop the Americans and with this, to save the rest - author.)
Twenty other people wounded themselves seriously, but at this moment they are recovering. When the guards burst into the barracks of the Russians who were subject to return to their Russian Fatherland, two of them were attempting to slay themselves with broken glass. Two others slashed one another’s throat.
Another Russian stuck his head out of a broken window and rotated his head against the jagged glass until his throat was slashed. The American soldiers stated that these scenes were completely inhuman. At that moment, these were not human beings but berserk animals.
The Americans began to swiftly cut the ropes on which many successfully hung themselves. However, those who regained consciousness began to cry out in Russian and pointing to the guards’ rifles asked to be shot on the spot. When attempts were made to help and send them to the hospital, they refused all efforts to save their lives.
One of them struck his chest with a knife and seemed to die. They threw him on a stretcher and carried him to a truck, but he suddenly jumped up and began to flee. With every movement a stream of blood flowed from the wound. The military police couldn’t deal with him. Two of them broke their rifle butts against his head. Officials stated that when the prisoners of war were unable to kill themselves, they became rabid and were not themselves.
The reason for such similar mass suicides was the unwillingness of the prisoners of war, workers, refugees, immigrants, and anti-Communists to return to an alien country*, where more cruel and inhuman mockery, torture and execution awaited them.
[*This strikingly reveals how true Russians, as opposed to Soviet "Russians", hated the Soviet "Fatherland" - editor.]
The killing of five “white” Generals can serve as an indication of such types of executions. They were Generals Peter Krasnov, Andrew Shkuro, Sultan Girey, Timothy Domanov and Semen Krasnov. These were handed over by the English to the Soviets in January of 1947. The Soviets then executed them in the courtyard of Leforto prison using an especially cruel method – they hung them with a sharp hook under the jaw.
All of these crimes by the nations of “Western democracies”, which contradicted all common human and Christian principles of morality, as well as the Geneva Convention of 1929 regarding the treatment of prisoners of war, without any investigation or trial, were to gratify the “peacemaker” Stalin – all were happening just when the allied nations were triumphantly signing the decree (26.06.1945) and in the Nuremberg process (20.11.1945 – 01.10.1946), had judged the defeated Nazis for “the most heinous crimes against humanity...”
Leaders of anti-Soviet opposition and the first wave of immigrants, the ROCOR Synod and others wrote memorandums to the governments of the Western nations, explaining the true situation in the USSR in the hopes of being understood and helped. There were collective letters sent to King George VI, to the League of Nations, to the International Red Cross, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to President Roosevelt, to Rome’s Pope Pius XII, to Generals Eisenhower and De Gaulle.
In order to block the overseas protests of immigrant religious leaders, the leadership of the "Moscow Patriarchate" was once again enlisted, who officially announced “the dirty slander, aimed at disrupting peaceful talks” between the USSR and her allies**. Yielding to the mendacious Soviet propaganda, the leaders of the Western nations attempted to resolutely carry out the Yalta agreement about the forceful deportation of the prisoners of war, workers, immigrants and refugees back to the USSR.
[**Of course one courageous word of truth from the "Moscow Patriarchate" leaders could have saved the lives of these millions who were being "repatriated" and could also have averted the disaster of Stalin gaining control of Eastern Europe (as a result of which millions of Orthodox Christians, of various nationalities were destroyed by the new Communist governments which gained control of their homelands; but no such word was offered - editor.]
Of all of the countries in the whole world, only one small (its area covered 157 square kilometers) but noble Principality of Lichtenstein categorically refused to hand over to the Soviets what was left of the General Holmston-Smilovsk army, granting them political refuge on its territory. Soviet military leaders threatened the Lichtenstein’s government with political and economic sanctions, to which the head of the Principality – A. Frik responded: “Well, that’s your affair, but I don’t want my grand-children to say one day that their grandfather was a murderer.”
This was the tragic aftermath of the “Moscow Council” in 1945 for millions of people, because T. Roosevelt (USA) and W. Churchill (Great Britain) were indeed greatly influenced by their belief in Stalin’s “democratic image” and signed his proposal.
For handling the “Council” so successfully, NKVD Major-General Karpov was decorated with the highest government award, the “Order of Lenin”. Likewise, "Patriarch" Alexis and other participants of the “Council” were amply rewarded.
Soon after the Council, on the 10th of April 1945, Stalin personally met with Alexis. At the meeting, apart from Stalin, were the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. M. Molotov, the "MP" Metropolitan Nicholas (Yarushevich) who was soon to become President of the new Department of (i.e. international) External Church Relations, and Protopriest N. Kolchitsky who was a specialist on questions of international relations.
Concerning this meeting "Patriarch Alexis" stated: “...While there is complete elation to be face to face with him, whose name alone is pronounced with love, and not only in every corner of our country but in all freedom-loving and peace-loving nations, we express our gratitude to Joseph Visarionovich [Stalin]... The talk was a completely unrestrained conversation of a father with his children.”
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