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expulsion of 3 million men, women and children, from lands that they had toiled since the Middle
Ages, lands that had stood as the bulwarks of Europe.
The tragedy did not end with the expulsions and murders, for the Czechs were to suffer themselves
under Communist rule when in between 1948 and 1952, their new Bolshevik bosses sentenced 233
persons to death, and imprisoned a further 147,770 for 'political offences'.
The Communist Party prohibited 365 authors and writers the right to publish. 27,500,000 books were
burned and 1.5 million informers let loose on Czech society.
A further 186, 921 Czechs were held in forced labor camps, and 118, 683 in military forced labor
camps. The number of persons who in prisons, trials or during arrest lost their lives totaled 15,726.
The great irony is that Hitler had sacrificed so many troops to hold the front lines of Czechoslovakia
against the Asiatic Communist hordes from which they were so soon to suffer grievously, and that
when the Czechs themselves rebelled against their Communist dictators in 1968, the lucky ones
escaped - to Germany!
CHAPTER. 19
WHILE GOD'S BACK WAS TURNED
"THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE EASIER TO CAPTURE........"
As with all wars, soldiers and civilians alike were sucked into the maelstrom with little or no control
over which area of political ideology fate had placed them. Thus it was that men under arms found
themselves fighting for causes, wearing the uniform and owing allegiance to nations and causes they
little understood. More tragically millions of civilians in Europe found that overnight they had
become Soviet citizens and their land given as booty to the Kremlin's dictators under deals made by
the allies.
Millions thus caught up were marked down for deportation to the Soviet gulags or liquidation. Such
being their fate these unfortunates were never consulted as the war 'to guarantee the rights of nations'
drew to a close, nor was any regard placed on the legality or morality of this trade in human slavery
and misery.
As a matter of government expediency the British Army and Merchant Navy were conscripted to
become essentially a part of the Soviet killing machine.
Up until June 1945, 50,000 displaced persons, mainly Cossacks surrendered themselves to the British
Armed Forces in southern Austria. In outright defiance of international law, conventions and civilized
standards of morality, the British Government exceeded their authority, even that of the deplorable
Yalta Agreements, by rounding tens of thousands of civilians up and forcibly transporting them to the
Soviet Union and Communist Yugoslavia of which most were not citizens.
Delivered to the Soviets at the frontier, and with the collaboration of their British Army guards to
whom they had surrendered, these tragic families, often split up to make their capture easier, were
machine-gunned in large groups. Those few, small bands of desperate people who managed to escape
usually committed suicide or were hunted down, shot and captured by British soldiers accompanied
and assisted by armed units of the NKVD - forerunners to the K.G.B.
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