Apparently very few people today, especially products of government schools, know about Operation Keelhaul, one of the most shameful episodes of a shame-filled history of the U. S. central government.
"Leaders" of the U. S. and U. K. governments were so eager to lick the boots of the second-worst butcher in human history, Josef Stalin, they almost blithely sentenced to death millions of anti- or at least non-communists who had fled Soviet Russia.
Some of those fleeing willingly joined armed forces fighting the Soviet armies, and many others were drafted into labor units and then often into fighting units.
Of the millions who had fled communist tyranny, many were women and children, but nothing mattered: They were all sentenced to be forcibly repatriated.
Operation Keelhaul was so evil, even the "news" media as well as the politicians (including Anthony Eden) and government bureaucrats have tried, ever since 1945, to keep this horrendous act covered up.
Only in relatively recent years have the facts been disclosed, about the lies told the prisoners and about the Allied troops literally using bayonets to herd the victims onto trucks and -- interesting optics -- cattle cars for the return, with many thousands of the prisoners being murdered immediately upon reaching Soviet soil!
"Red Danube" only barely hints at the other vicious and barbarous acts known as Operation Keelhaul. What is on the "Red Danube" screen is a microcosm, some quite specific acts by the Soviet authorities in the divided city of Vienna to capture and imprison individuals sought by the communist tyrants and butchers in Moscow.
It is sickening and horrifying that some reviewers here are "offended" by an accurate history of communist tyranny. What is worse is that Hollywood would not make such a historically accurate movie today.
"Red Danube" is not perfect, but in the context of accurate history of communist butchery, it is a must-see movie.
"Leaders" of the U. S. and U. K. governments were so eager to lick the boots of the second-worst butcher in human history, Josef Stalin, they almost blithely sentenced to death millions of anti- or at least non-communists who had fled Soviet Russia.
Some of those fleeing willingly joined armed forces fighting the Soviet armies, and many others were drafted into labor units and then often into fighting units.
Of the millions who had fled communist tyranny, many were women and children, but nothing mattered: They were all sentenced to be forcibly repatriated.
Operation Keelhaul was so evil, even the "news" media as well as the politicians (including Anthony Eden) and government bureaucrats have tried, ever since 1945, to keep this horrendous act covered up.
Only in relatively recent years have the facts been disclosed, about the lies told the prisoners and about the Allied troops literally using bayonets to herd the victims onto trucks and -- interesting optics -- cattle cars for the return, with many thousands of the prisoners being murdered immediately upon reaching Soviet soil!
"Red Danube" only barely hints at the other vicious and barbarous acts known as Operation Keelhaul. What is on the "Red Danube" screen is a microcosm, some quite specific acts by the Soviet authorities in the divided city of Vienna to capture and imprison individuals sought by the communist tyrants and butchers in Moscow.
It is sickening and horrifying that some reviewers here are "offended" by an accurate history of communist tyranny. What is worse is that Hollywood would not make such a historically accurate movie today.
"Red Danube" is not perfect, but in the context of accurate history of communist butchery, it is a must-see movie.