But interestingly, all these crouching captains with lashes and hats, who today with George ribbons will flood Moscow into Stalin's glory - they know something about Lienz? About Judenburg? How were the Cossacks given out? About the Cossack camp and the Fifteenth Cossack Cavalry Corps? About the fact that only three hundred thousand people left the Kuban with the Germans? About the fact that through the Cossack units, who fought on the side of Germany, passed from eighty to one hundred and fifty thousand?.
About how the British in Lienz and Judenburg gave SMERSH and the NKVD about sixty thousand Cossacks? Together with the emigrants of the first wave, as well as the Cossack families - women and children? How did the Cossacks and the Junkers, realizing that they had been deceived, stood in a circle at the time of extradition, trying to protect their families, and the English with bayonets and batons drove them into trucks, killing at the same time damn a thousand people? How did the Cossacks fled into the woods and caught them there - no less than a thousand Cossacks killed in these round-ups? How did the veins cut and jumped from the bridge to the rocks during the transfer, so as not to get into the Gulag? How did women tie babies to themselves and rush into the river? How did the NKVD shoot the transferred Cossacks on the spot? On June 16, during the regular extradition on the spot, 59 people were shot, for example.
These are here with the ribbons of St. George and the Cossack hats, which for their homeland, Stalin, and the Batiushchuk-tsar - they, interestingly, have at least heard anything about this?.
All this was happening these days - in May-June 1945. And then I have it every time causes a certain dissonance. If even a little bit of history - the Cossacks with portraits of Stalin and the posters "grandfathers fought" look well, oh, very strange.
In the photo - the issuance of the NKVD by Cossack General A. Shkuro (hanged in Lefortovo together with Krasnov), the issuance by the British of Cossacks, a cemetery in Lienz (from three hundred to six hundred buried), a memorial sign.
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