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Stalin's Vengeance - The Final Truth About the Forced Return of Russians After World War II (Hardcover)
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Stalin's Vengeance - The Final Truth About the Forced Return of Russians After World War II (Hardcover)
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In May 1945, as World War II drew to a close in Europe, some 30,000
Russian Cossacks surrendered to British forces in Austria,
believing they would be spared repatriation to the Soviet Union.
The fate of those among them who were Soviet citizens had been
sealed by the Yalta Agreement, signed by the Allied leaders a few
months earlier. Ever since, mystery has surrounded Britain's
decision to include among those returned to Stalin a substantial
number of White Russians, who had fled their country after the
Russian Revolution of 1917 and found refuge in various European
countries. They had never been Soviet citizens, and should not have
been handed over. Some were prominent tsarist generals, on whose
handover the Soviets were particularly insistent. General Charles
Keightley, the responsible British officer, concealed the presence
of White Russians from his superiors, who had issued repeated
orders stipulating that only Soviet nationals should be handed
over, and even then only if they did not resist. Through a
succession underhanded moves, Keightley secretly delivered up the
leading Cossack commanders to the Soviets, while force of
unparalleled brutality was employed to hand over thousands of
Cossack men, women, and children to a ghastly fate. Particularly
sinister was the role of the future British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan, whose own machinations are scrutinized here. Following
the publication of Count Nikolai Tolstoy's last book on the subject
in 1986, the British government closed ranks, and three years later
an English court issued a GBP1,500,000 judgment against him for
allegedly libeling the British chief of staff who issued the fatal
orders. Since then, however, Count Tolstoy has gradually acquired a
devastating body of heretofore unrevealed evidence filling the
remaining gaps in this tragic history. Much of this material
derives from long-sealed Soviet archives, to which Tolstoy received
access by a special decree from the late Russian President Boris
Yeltsin. What really happened during these murky events is now
revealed for the first time.
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