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Stalin's son, [[Yakov Dzhugashvili]], served in the [[Red Army]] and was captured by the Germans after this order was issued. They offered to exchange him for [[Field Marshal]] [[Friedrich Paulus]], but Stalin turned the offer down, allegedly saying "A lieutenant is not worth a general"; others credit him with saying "I have no son."<ref name="channel4" /> Molotov quotes him saying that "All these boys are my sons." |
Stalin's son, [[Yakov Dzhugashvili]], served in the [[Red Army]] and was captured by the Germans after this order was issued. They offered to exchange him for [[Field Marshal]] [[Friedrich Paulus]], but Stalin turned the offer down, allegedly saying "A lieutenant is not worth a general"; others credit him with saying "I have no son."<ref name="channel4" /> Molotov quotes him saying that "All these boys are my sons." |
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After returning to the Soviet Union, nearly 80 per cent of Russian workers and prisoners of war returning from Germany were sent to forced labour, some given fifteen to twenty-five years of 'corrective labour', others sent off to hard labour; all were categorized as 'socially dangerous'."<ref>Rosemary H. T. O'Kane, ''Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism'', Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415314739, [http://books.google.com/books?id=aFwO9xeuTs4C&pg=PA164&dq=Soviet+prisoners+of+war+German+Gulag&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=wYx-KKGf6Vuw7U3kctmBcobIBJs Google Print, p.164]</ref> |
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Soviet Union collapse in 1991 made Soviet archives available for historians. According to their data, the overall increase of the Gulag population was minimal during 1945-46 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etext.org/Politics/Staljin/Staljin/articles/AHR/AHR.html|title=Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-war Years|author=Getty, Rittersporn, Zemskov}}</ref>. 3,246,000 of repatriated Soviet POWs and civilians (out of 5,917,000) returned to civilian life, 1,645,000 were drafted, 338,000 found guilty (most of them were liberated by 1953) and about half a million remained in Western countries <ref>Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk. Liudskie poteri SSSR v period vtoroi mirovoi voiny:sbornik statei. (Russian Academy of Sciences. Human losses during WWII). Sankt-Peterburg 1995 ISBN 5-86789-023-6</ref>.<br /> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 14:07, 1 September 2008
Order No. 270, dated August 16, 1941, was issued by Joseph Stalin acting as People's Commissar of Defence. It prohibited any soldier from surrendering, with Stalin declaring, "There are no Russian prisoners of war, only traitors."[1] The order demanded anyone deserting or surrendering to be killed on the spot, and subjected their families to arrest and their wives sent to labor camps. Doing this ensured his army would fight to the death.
Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, served in the Red Army and was captured by the Germans after this order was issued. They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, but Stalin turned the offer down, allegedly saying "A lieutenant is not worth a general"; others credit him with saying "I have no son."[1] Molotov quotes him saying that "All these boys are my sons."
After returning to the Soviet Union, nearly 80 per cent of Russian workers and prisoners of war returning from Germany were sent to forced labour, some given fifteen to twenty-five years of 'corrective labour', others sent off to hard labour; all were categorized as 'socially dangerous'."[2]
See also
- Order No. 227
- Soviet reprisals against former POWs
- Original text - At Wikisource (in Russian)
References
- ^ a b "The warlords: Joseph Stalin". Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- ^ Rosemary H. T. O'Kane, Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415314739, Google Print, p.164