Beyond propaganda: the USSR and its grave responsibility in the Holocaust

On January 27, 1945, 80 years ago, the Red Army arrived at Auschwitz, the largest of Nazi Germany's extermination camps.

The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment
The mass deportation of Polish Jews to Siberia: an almost forgotten communist crime

For years, it has been common to speak of "liberation" to refer to this fact. Many communist propagandists have used it to whitewash the role of the USSR in the Second World War and, particularly, in the Holocaust. Today's communists, and at the time the Stalin dictatorship, also appeal to the extremely high number of Soviet casualties in both that war and the Holocaust.

The fact is that World War II began with an alliance between Nazi Germany and the USSR to jointly invade Poland. Under this pact, the USSR invaded Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and part of Romania, committing mass deportations and all kinds of atrocities in the invaded countries. Stalin only stood up to Hitler when Germany finally invaded the USSR in June 1941. Until then, the communist parties, following orders from Moscow, justified the German-Soviet invasion of Poland.

Hitler's dictatorship was a criminal and genocidal regime, and only fanatics can deny this fact, which is proven by the horrors of the Holocaust and the countless crimes committed by the Germans in the countries they invaded. Stalin's dictatorship was also a criminal and genocidal regime, which caused millions of deaths. It was his alliance with Hitler that unleashed the worst war humanity has ever suffered, and any attempt to whitewash that regime is as infamous as attempts to whitewash Nazism.

Furthermore, it must be remembered that the Auschwitz extermination camp began to be built in June 1940, when Germany and the USSR were still allies and while Stalin was delivering colossal quantities of grain, oil, iron ore and other raw materials to the Third Reich, Soviet aid that served not only to contribute to its war machine, but also to grease the criminal organization that perpetrated the Holocaust.

I have already written several articles on these issues in recent years. I list them below for anyone who wants to learn more about this topic:

• The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment. On the role of the USSR not only in the Holocaust, but also in covering up the genocide suffered by the Jews during the Nuremberg Trials.
• Majdanek: the German concentration camp reused by the USSR against anti-Nazi Poles. Stalin used this Nazi extermination camp to imprison Poles who had fought against the Germans.
• The mass deportation of Polish Jews to Siberia: an almost forgotten communist crime. A crime against humanity that some today try to disguise as an act of "salvation."
• United by hatred of democracy: a revealing telegram about the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. On the pact between Germany and the USSR signed on August 23, 1939, which led, a few days later, to the outbreak of the Second World War.
• The Nazi-Soviet joint parade of 1939 in Poland that some deny, in video. An event that took place in the Polish town of Brześć Litewski (today Brest-Litovsk, in Belarus).
• The Pogrom of Ludmiłówka: a silenced killing of Jews at the hands of communists. The man responsible for this anti-Semitic massacre, the communist Grzegorz Korczyński, ended up becoming deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security in the communist dictatorship imposed by Stalin in Poland.
• This is how the Communist Party of Spain justified the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. An example of how the alliance between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 was reflected in the propaganda of the communist parties that were under the orders of Moscow.

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Colorized photo by Mirek Szponar. German and Soviet soldiers at the joint German-Soviet parade in Brześć Litewski to celebrate their victory over the Poles in September 1939.