Tom Sweetnam
Platinum Member
Israel recently dedicated a beautiful memorial in Netanya, a city in one of the country’s prettiest coastal areas…to the Red Army. Putin was at the dedication. It was his first stop on a state visit. I have mixed feelings, as any American who’s fought against the kind of dystopia that the Red Army visited on countries unfortunate enough to fall under its control. Communist armies were no different in Asia.
Russian Jews are a big demographic in Israel and there are, or were (most have passed away now) many Red Army WWII veterans who emigrated to Israel. I learned from reading one of the most highly suppressed books of the past century, Aleksandr Solzhenytsyn’s ‘200 Years Together’, that several hundred thousand Jews served in the Red Army during The Great Patriotic War, including 100 generals and a core commander as well.
There is no monument in Israel to that other WWII paramilitary apparatus in which so many Jews served: the NKVD. It murdered millions during the war, most of them Red Army soldiers. So what do you think? How do you feel about Stalin’s army being lionized in a country that relies for its very existence on America?
Russian Jews are a big demographic in Israel and there are, or were (most have passed away now) many Red Army WWII veterans who emigrated to Israel. I learned from reading one of the most highly suppressed books of the past century, Aleksandr Solzhenytsyn’s ‘200 Years Together’, that several hundred thousand Jews served in the Red Army during The Great Patriotic War, including 100 generals and a core commander as well.
There is no monument in Israel to that other WWII paramilitary apparatus in which so many Jews served: the NKVD. It murdered millions during the war, most of them Red Army soldiers. So what do you think? How do you feel about Stalin’s army being lionized in a country that relies for its very existence on America?
