Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
No, they didn't, because while this ywas happening in Russia, the Austrians were busy waving swastika flags and assisting their brudervolk with sending people to Treblinka and Auschwitz instead. No disrespect against the Austrians, and I am sure there were many who would have preferred not to, or re-write history a bit, but it's what happened.

Yes, the USSR/Stalin relocated people, during the war; it was probably completely misguided, but at least they didn't kill people on purpose. And the USSR stopped that when the war was over, and only a small minority. ....
hanna, i know you are very knowledgable and i respect you for that. but it appears to me your opinion on the ussr was largely formed post 1970. yes the austrians did those things during the war, but you are very very wrong with your assertion that stalin did this during the war only and did not kill people on purpose. i do not want to write books to you but maybe familiarise yourself with the times and doings of jeschow and lawrentij beria. think about the countless people that went through the underdground cells of lubjanka and butyrka. read about the people disappearing without any fair trial in countless working prison camps - from way before the war to way after the war. let me give you some examples: karaganda for example dolinka from 1931 tp 1959, workuta from 1938 to after 1960, kolyma until 1987. if after all of that you still think people were not being killed without a fair justice system in huge numbers way before and after the war and you think austria is just as bad, well then we just completely disagree.