by: Nema Alborz - posted (or last updated): 2nd, June 2009

Occupation: Nursing

In the National Archives in Washington there exists an unedited of a film which is a footage taken by an American army camera unit at a prisoner of war camp in southern Germany in February 1946 where anti-Communist Russian civilians were treated like prisoners and were forced to return to Russia based on an agreement that Churchill had agreed with Stalin. The agreement was to hand over all anti-communist Russian civilians for prompt execution.

These 140,000 men, women, and children did not survived to see 1947.

They were non-combatants and the only crime they had committed was to be anti-Communist. Most had escaped Russia after witnessing their family members murdered for no reason whatsoever and lived in exile for fear of persecution.

Not all British agreed with Churchill's decision.

The widely admired and respected British General Harold Alexander refused to obey Churchill's direct orders to hand over these anti-Communist Russians to Stalin after the World War II. He was then made Governor-General of Canada so that Churchill can proceed to get his purposes accomplished which was the handing over of 140,000 people to the Soviet army without any delay or anyone finding out what he had to agreed with Stalin.

British troops were ordered to hunt down and shoot Russian refugees who tried to escape their fate. Some British troops, weeping, refused to fire on the hapless prisoners and were then threatened by their officers with drawn pistols and made to do so. All were then read the Official Secrets Act and compelled to keep their silence. To this day, the vast majority of the British public know nothing of this war crime - a horrendous crime directly ordered by Churchill.

Those that survived the British bullets were made to cross the bridge which was the handover point, many of prisoners threw themselves off it too their deaths on the rocks below as soon as they saw the black-uniformed troops waiting for them on the far side. The others that crossed the bridge all perished.

For many years this unique piece of film was never available to the public as it was regarded a sensitive operation at the end of the Second World War, the handing over to Stalin of large numbers of civilians who were anti-Communist refugees.

Among them were well-known Cossack regiments who had left their homeland in the period 1917 - 1921 after the defeat of the White Russian armies by the Bolsheviks. They had all surrendered to the Allies trusting that they would not be handed back to Russia for what would be imminent execution.

But in February 1945, at the Yalta conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to Stalin's demand that they be handed over to him for execution. The anti-Communist Russians in the hands of the western allies were betrayed by Churchill. There was no doubt what was in store for the civilians once they were in Soviet hands.

In most instances, Allied guards responsible for turning over their prisoners could see their bodies hanging in the forests where the exchange took place. Some were shot behind warehouses on the quay side with low flying Soviet planes circling overhead to help reduce the noise of the machine gun fire. Some were tortured before being shot. American and British officers were the appalled eyewitnesses to many desperate acts of suicide by Russian men and women who preferred their own death and that of their wives and children to falling into the hands of the Soviet army. They rest were all murdered in the most brutal way.

When Western archives were finally made available to historians, two remarkable books quickly appeared: The Last Secret, 1974, by Nicholas Bethel, and Victims of Yalta, 1977, by Nikolai Tolstoy, both shocking in their detailed accounts of what had happened.

The BBC joined in with a television documentary by a Hungarian film maker, Robert Vas, based on interviews with servicemen and civilians who had been involved in the tragedy or knew about it. Some of them confessed to still feeling traumatized by what they had been ordered to do and what they witnessed.

How can decent people hide the truth about this incident for 3 decades? How can the world still regard Winston Churchill as anything other than the grotesque parasite that he was? Proven beyond doubt by history. His grave should be turned into a toilet for dogs.

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