More than 800,000 were slaughtered by Stalin’s regime

by James Buchanan

The term “keelhaul” describes a form of torture and punishment in which a British sea captain would have an offender dragged on a rope that was strung underneath the ship from one side to the other. The offender would often drown in the process. An old sailing ship’s underside was likely to be covered with barnacles and the victim could be terribly injured on the rough surface. “Operation Keelhaul” at the close of World War Two was an aptly-named Allied atrocity in which millions of refugees from eastern Europe were forced back across the border to Stalin. FDR and Churchill had made a deal with the devil to “repatriate” any refugees from eastern Europe at the close of the war. Stalin viewed these refugees as enemies for trying to escape Communist rule and ordered their mass murder.

One description of this operation follows “During World War II, some 2.5 million Soviet citizens found themselves in Germany and the occupied countries as prisoners of war, slave laborers, or refugees. From 1944 to 1947, these people were forcibly repatriated in a number of operations, the best known of which was Operation Keelhaul in 1946-7. Many committed suicide rather than return to Soviet slavery. Many others were dragged kicking and screaming into the trucks that took them out of Allied territory. The public, by and large, did not know of these atrocities; in fact, the operation was scaled down to some slight extent because Eisenhower and Montgomery threatened to divulge it to the public. The scaling down consisted in formally ‘screening’ the victims for politically persecuted ones. But in essence the politicians prevailed: the officers knew that they had to fulfill a certain quota or have the Soviet authorities (who were by then running the camps) step in. The ‘screening’ was merely a rationalization in making Britain and the US a party to the atrocity. Of the displaced persons thus forcibly returned to the Soviet union, MORE THAN 800,000 WERE SLAUGHTERED by Stalin’s regime. In the history of a weak, hypocritical and spineless West, Operation Keelhaul and allied operations stand out as most shameful examples.”

FDR died on April 12, 1945, but his successor Harry Truman carried out Operation Keelhaul deporting innocent refugees from eastern Europe to Stalin’s clutches. The Communists often machine-gunned these people as they arrived in Soviet territory -sometimes while still on the trains. Most of these people were nothing more than White Christian refugees, who didn’t want to live in a communist tyranny.

Added to Operation Keelhaul are all the other Allied atrocities: The fire-bombings that killed hundreds of thousands at Dresden and Hamburg, the starvation and abuse of German POWs by Stalin, the mass rape of millions of German women in east Germany by Soviet soldiers and the starvation of German prisoners in Eisenhower’s prison camps described in the book “Other Losses.” The Allies had a strong motive to invent and exaggerate war crime charges against the Germans at Nuremburg. They had to overshadow all the carnage done to enemy civilians and POWs by the Allies. The Institute for Historical Review has done an excellent job exposing many of the great lies surrounding World War Two and is a great source for anyone who wants to know the truth.