We're coming up on "Holocaust Remembrance Day".
A day to remember what many call the most horrible attrocity in human history; to the point that Jewish organizations such as the ADL won't ever let America forget.
Yet, I'm of German/Russo-Jewish descent and none of my family were killed in the Holocaust. No, rather, my great grandparents and their children were mercilessly sent to their premature demise at the hands of Stalin in the Soviet Gulags.
It's only by a miracle that my mother was able to reach Italy and continue to live a normal life after the fact.
Yet today, in America, Europe and the world-over...no one remembers the gulags, the pain, the suffering, the 15 million Russians, Poles and more who were sentenced to a gruesome demise. No, all we hear about today is the "six million" killed in Germany; their pain, their suffering, how we all owe them something.
Because Russia was America's ally in WWII, it gives them the right to forget? Pretend it never happpened?
2007-03-31
13:41:21
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