120,000 in acts of direct violence, mostly by Soviet troops but also by Poles, 60,000 in Polish and 40,000 in Soviet concentration camps or prisons mostly from hunger and disease, and 200,000 deaths among civilian deportees to forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union), 130,000 in Czechoslovakia (thereof 100,000 in camps) and 80,000 in Yugoslavia (thereof 15,000 to 20,000 from violence outside of and in camps and 59,000 deaths from hunger and disease in camps). [134][135][136], Another infamous massacre committed by Soviet troops was the Lunca massacre, where soviet border troops opened fire against several Romanian civilians attempting to escape into Romania, killing 600 of them, only 57 managed to escape, with another 44 being arrested and tried as "members of a counter-revolutionary organization", 12 of them were sentenced to death, with the rest being sentenced to 10 years forced labour and 5 years loss of civil rights, the family members of those arrested and shot would later be arrested and sent to Siberia and Central Asia[137], During the occupation, the Soviet government and army deported thousands of Romanian civilians from the occupied regions into "special settlements". Who would be concerned by shooting about eight spies over the course of a days march? The end was foreshadowed when the wartime Allies divided East Prussia between Russia and Poland and approved the expulsion of all East Prussians. Most of the Ingrian Finns together with Votes and Izhorians living in German-occupied territory were evacuated to Finland in 19431944. No more than half of those men were used for military service. [16], The pogroms were condemned by the Red Army high command and guilty units were disarmed, while individual pogromists were court-martialed. How three million Germans died after VE Dayhttp://www.odfinfo.de/en/History/After-the-Reich.htm'They raped every German female from eight to 80'http://www.od. The end was foreshadowed when the wartime Allies divided East Prussia between Russia and Poland and approved the expulsion of all East Prussians. I found that ignorance rather odd in view of his constant hammering of the theme of Jewish suffering during the Second World War. [45][46], On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression agreement. He recalled a story about invading Cossacks in the next town cutting off the right index finger of every young boy they captured, supposedly in the belief that this would prevent them from learning to shoot and becoming soldiers when grown. Then, in 1942, 1944 and 1949, the NKVD indiscriminately arrested all Greek men 16 years old or older. Its capital city was Knigsberg (presentday Kaliningrad). In the wake of a half a century of attempts to have international laws of war and other rules to mitigate its savagery, some held the expectation that European states would and should fight each other without the systematic abusing of civilian populations. On Page 234 of his . They were specifically responsible for maintaining the political regime in the Gulag and conducting mass deportations and forced resettlement. After the War, a more elaborate appearance of justice was given under the jurisdiction of the Polish People's Republic orchestrated by the Soviets in the form of mock trials. [50], During the restoration of Lithuanian independence in 1990 and 1991, the Soviet army killed 13 people in Vilnius during the January Events.[51]. In 1939, East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants, 85% of them ethnic Germans. The procedure was established by the Serov Instructions. January 1945. East Prussia, German Ostpreussen, former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig (now Gdask, Poland). My first post is a short translation Id like to share and briefly comment upon. One doesnt want to carry lots of paper for obvious reasons when on the march, and acquiring it may have had its challenges as well. [151][152][153] There were several incidences,[spelling?] . full stop. East Prussia, July 1944 Alastair Noble The Red Army's advance towards the frontiers of East Prussia in the summer of 1944 raised the spectre of the war coming home to Germany. The division had received its first baptism. where Chinese police forces in Manchuria arrested or even killed Soviet troops for various crimes, leading to some conflicts between the Soviet and Chinese authorities in Manchuria. .] [57] Similar atrocities occurred in Sambor, Stanisaww, Stryj, and Zoczw. [138], Religious persecution was also widespread, the Soviet government sought to exterminate all forms of organized religion in its occupied territories, often persecuting the Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish churches, the Soviet political police arrested numerous priests, with others being arrested and interrogated by the Soviet NKVD itself, then deported to the interior of the USSR, and killed. The Krlis Ulmanis government was removed, and new illegitimate elections were held on 21 June 1940 with only one party listed, "electing" a fake parliament which made resolution to join the Soviet Union, with the resolution having already been drawn up in Moscow prior the election. Equally importantly, abusing civilians complicated military occupation, not only in East Prussia, but especially in Poland and Galicia, where the Russians were trying to win "hearts and minds." [146][145][147] Property of the Japanese were also looted by the Soviet soldiers and Chinese. At 6:45 we arrived in the town of Marusken. I have another in front of me right now (I. S. Iakovlev), and the entries in this one are even less informative, i.e. Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine have destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, shopping centers and ambulances, leaving thousands of civilians killed or wounded. by David Thompson 15 Nov 2004, 21:25, Return to Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes. French Invasion of Russia (1812-1813)-Prussia was a forced ally of France. David M. '70 and Linda Roth Professor of History The place the Russians entered Germany. Read; View source; View history; Article; Talk; Tools. [146], Following the invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (Manchuria), the Soviets laid claim to valuable Japanese materials and industrial equipment in the region. as tsarist troops poured across east prussia's eastern and southern borders, penetrating deep into its interior, frightening reports of civilians tortured and murdered, officials arrested, and. No, theres no full translation of the diary available, Im afraid. Women were gang raped by as many as several dozen soldiers during the liberation of Poland. Controversial: The statue depicting a typical occurrence of a Soviet soldier raping a pregnant German woman with the gun in her mouth was removed in Poland's Gdansk TRUTH SPEAKERS ARE PERSECUTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL GANG: Polish town tears down statue marking the rape of millions of German women by Russian soldiers Deportations on a smaller scale continued after 1931. "[160], In a November 1941 report, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau accused the Red Army of employing "a terror policy against defenseless German soldiers that have fallen into its hands and against members of the German medical corps. [184] There was an outcry against the press in the Soviet Union for depicting the Russian "war heroes" as "murderers", "aggressors", "rapists" and "junkies".[185]. Erna Schneider, born 1936, escaped into the forest from a windowless cattle train transporting East Prussian children to Russia. Sometimes helpful, sometimes self-indulgent, often stimulating, frequently ranting, Ive put them on the list of things Ill browse for intellectual pleasure in odd moments in the day, say the ten minutes I have between lunch and my one-fifteen class. The habitat of the long-dead Prussian tribe comprises today's province called East Prussia, which forms the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Lafayette College (Pennsylvania, USA), This is fascinating, Josh. On 25 September 1956, MVD Order N 0402 was adopted and defined the removal of restrictions towards the deported peoples in the special settlements. [30] More than 300,000 citizens of Estonia, almost a third of the population at the time, were affected by deportations, arrests, execution and other acts of repression. Never before had the light of East Prussia seemed so bright, the sky so high, the countryside so vast, as in 1944, wrote Hans Graf von . "Der Umgang mit den Denkmlern." by sylvieK4 11 Nov 2004, 03:29, Post I krajowe Warszawa 1990, Wyd. His edited volume of the diary was published in 2008 in the small burg of Kimry (pop. Lithuania was then occupied by Nazi Germany for a little over three years. They dealt a healthy blow to the fascists. He made the claim after Russian forces pulled out of many . A region of more than forty versts of East Prussia along the border was enveloped by fire. hello. [7], The Soviet Union did not recognize Imperial Russia's signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 as binding, and as a result, it refused to recognize them until 1955. Soldiers of the Red Army, together with members of the NKVD, frequently looted German transport trains in Poland in 1944 and 1945. I wont go into all of those possibilities in this first post, but I will point out a couple of obvious facts about the current limitations of scholarly publication: we only review new books, we review articles anonymously or in the safety of our classroom, and we comment very infrequently upon the strengths of particular works for teaching. According to data from Soviet archives, which were published in 1990, 1,803,392 people were sent to labor colonies and camps in 1930 and 1931, and 1,317,022 reached the destination. On 21 October 1944, Soviet soldiers killed many German civilians as well as French and Belgian POWs Deportations were predominantly to Siberia and Kazakhstan by means of railroad cattle cars, without prior announcement, while deported were given few night hours at best to pack their belongings and separated from their families, usually also sent to the east. Civilians were killed by conventional bombs during the invasion. [8] This created a situation in which war crimes by the Soviet armed forces could eventually be rationalized. Standing is sort of hard, but on the other hand its good for fighting back fascists. Putiakov clearly articulates his ideological orientation by noting major historical events of importance to the Soviet calendar when beginning diary entries: Today is the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. I notice a pronounced lack of interest in trying to find any higher meaning of the war in Subbotins matter-of-fact commentary. was looted several times. This article examines whether East Prussia did, in fact, suffer "unheard-of brutality" at Russian hands during the invasions of 1914-15. [20], On 6 February 1922 the Cheka was replaced by the State Political Administration or OGPU, a section of the NKVD. The declared function of the NKVD was to protect the state security of the Soviet Union, which was accomplished by the large scale political persecution of "class enemies". Between 1940 and 1941, thousands of Lithuanians were arrested and hundreds of political prisoners were arbitrarily executed. You couldnt find any soldiers smoking makhorka (a cheap tobacco js). [33] In addition to the expected human and material losses suffered due to the fighting, until its end this conflict led to the deportation of tens of thousands of people, along with hundreds of political prisoners and thousands of civilians died. The division remained in the village of Olshanka, and on the 31st we set out in the direction of Magriboven. The Prussian Holocaust began in August 1944 in two East Prussian villages called Nemmersdorf and Goldap. [100], Some historians dispute this, referring to an order issued on 19 January 1945, which required the prevention of mistreatment of civilians. The Germans were able to prevail and retook much of the ground captured by the Russians. [97], In 1943 and 1944, the Soviet government accused several entire ethnic groups of Axis collaboration. Famous examples include Witold Pilecki or Emil August Fieldorf. The Russians regarded East Prussia as the seat of German militarism. [120], According to Norman Naimark, after the summer of 1945, Soviet soldiers caught raping civilians usually received punishments ranging from arrest to execution. by David Thompson 15 Nov 2004, 07:01, Post Soviet authors Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and. Our artillery got into position, and we extended into a line. Efforts were made by Soviet authorities to contain anti-Jewish bigotry notably during the Russian civil war, whenever the Red Army units perpetrated pogroms,[11][12] as well as during the Soviet-Polish War of 19191920 at Baranovichi. In November 2006, photographs showing Soviet atrocities were declassified by the Finnish authorities. "Okupowany Krakw - z prorektorem Andrzejem Chwalb rozmawia Rita Pagacz-Moczarska", see bibliogroup:"Dzieje Krakowa: Krakw w latach 1945-1989" in Google Books, https://web.archive.org/web/20080524235517/http://www3.uj.edu.pl/alma/alma/64/01/02.html, "Too awful an image of war: Sixty years on, there are no grounds to withhold images kept in a Finnish Defence Forces' safe", "Chechnya: European Parliament recognises the genocide of the Chechen People in 1944", Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, "Texts adopted: Final edition EU-Russia relations", ". . It feels as if there is almost a tiredness about it. [92], After the retreat of the Wehrmacht from Crimea, the NKVD deported around 200,000 Crimean Tatars from the peninsula on 18 May 1944. Bright and literate enough to keep a diary, but occasionally clueless enough to be confused about the actual army he was in (he wrote that he was serving in the Fourth Army), he left behind a diary of the war and several photographs. Prior the deportation, the Peoples Commissariat established operational groups who performed arrests, search and seizure of the property. Prussia was forced to accept a French army of occupation and had to become an ally of France, contributing troops to his ongoing wars. They took away everything they wanted, especially food, clothing and valuables every apartment, shop, bank, etc. Our lieutenant was killed early on, the soldier Seleznev was killed, and others too. . I might add that I have studied the First World War in the East rather extensively and I don't believe that the Russian troops behaved substantially worse or better than the troops of other countries. [128], Even embassy staff from neutral countries were captured and raped, as was documented when Soviet soldiers attacked the Swedish legation in Germany.[129]. It is estimated that 3,450 Jews or 2.3 percent of the Jewish victims killed during the Russian Civil War were murdered by the Bolshevik armies. We marched to the village of Albotvingen. During the Augustw chase in 1945, more than 2,000 Poles were captured and about 600 of them are presumed to have died in Soviet custody. Mutual recrimination was the dominant mode for many years. . A school boy named Tullio Lindsaar had all of the bones in his hands broken then was bayoneted for hoisting the flag of Estonia. by Tancred 14 Nov 2004, 03:27, Post "Unheard-of Brutality": Russian Atrocities against Civilians in East Prussia, 1914-1915 * Alexander Watson; Alexander Watson. To the contrary, I think many shifts occur very quickly and at the very outset of the war. I say this because letters I have read tend to be far less laconic than diaries. Here is what British historian John Keegan has to say on the subject of the behavior of Russian troops in Eastern Prussia in 1914: "Tannenburg, as a result, became for the Germans their outstanding victory of the conflict. Included in the latter figure are about 15,000 Jews, largely victims of executions by Nazi SS and Arrow Cross Party death squads. The incident took place after a victory celebration in which numerous girls from Treuenbrietzen were raped and a Red Army lieutenant-colonel was shot by an unknown assailant. [21] As an internal security force and a prison guard contingent of the Gulag, the Internal Troops repressed political dissidents and engaged in war crimes during periods of military hostilities throughout Soviet history. Following World War II and the subsequent suppression of the Lithuanian Forest Brothers, the Soviet authorities executed thousands of resistance fighters and civilians whom they accused of aiding them. Soon everything had calmed down and we unsaddled the horses and began to feast again. "[168] The UN commission received numerous reports of Soviet mortar and artillery fire into inhabited quarters in the Buda section of the city, despite no return fire, and of "haphazard shooting at defenseless passers-by. [citation needed], Fleeing before the advancing Red Army, large numbers of the inhabitants of the German provinces of East Prussia, Silesia, and Pomerania died during the evacuations, some from cold and starvation, some during combat operations. Second, and related, it seems that I often hear about the significance of World War I, among other reasons, for the brutalization of warfare. " "? The Goldap-Gumbinnen offensive was launched by the Russian 3rd Belorussian Front in October 1944. The Red Army was also involved in mass-scale looting in liberated territories. The boredom of war is clearly communicated by the fact that Putiakov prefaces each entry in his diary with the never changing note, On guard. Beyond recording the amount of rations he was given each day and noting when he was able to melt snow in order to wash himself, Putiakov devotes much of his diary (which in total encompasses four notebooks) to trying to make sense of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. [171][172] The army of the Soviet Union killed large numbers of Afghans to suppress their resistance. that could not be taken away were frequently simply destroyed. . Brandenburgische Landeszentrale fr politische Bildung/Ministerium fr Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg. [104], For the Germans, the organized evacuation of civilians before the advancing Red Army was delayed by the Nazi government, so as not to demoralize the troops, who were by now fighting in their own country. by Ogorek 08 Nov 2004, 19:48, Post The European Parliament described the deportation of Chechens and Ingush, where around a quarter people perished, an act of genocide in 2004:[98], Believes that the deportation of the entire Chechen people to Central Asia on 23 February 1944 on the orders of Stalin constitutes an act of genocide within the meaning of the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 and the Convention for the Prevention and Repression of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Cum au fost omori 3.000 de romni, la grania cu Romnia, pe 1 aprilie 1941, de Pate", "75 Years Since 'The Romanian Katyn' Massacre At Fntna Alb 3,000 Romanians Killed", "Commemoration of Fntna Alb massacre: tears, grief, gratitude", "Masacrul de la Fntna Alb. Some had been shot in their hospital beds, others repeatedly bludgeoned to death, still others were found to have been thrown from hospital windows before being repeatedly drenched with freezing water until they died of hypothermia.[166]. Their mortality rate is estimated to have been about 40 percent. I woke up early in the morning and set a table between two apple trees, red apples hung directly over the table. It makes you wonder whether all the talk of a gradual breakdown of Russian discipline gets the story wrong, for where is the discipline in this tale? They were found guilty of deportations of Estonians in 1949. Germans parade in Tilsit in 1936 In one famous example, during the Gegenmiao massacre, Soviet soldiers, encouraged by the local Chinese population, raped and massacred over one thousand Japanese women and children. Despite this unusual provenance, Subbotins diary is not all that different from other Russian soldier diaries I have read, but there is one significant difference. (2001)", Deportations of the Population in 1944-1953, "On This Day 13 January 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station", Wielkie polowanie: Przeladowania akowcw w Polsce Ludowej, May Katy. Rush the forty-fives to fight. German complaints OnAugust 11, 1914, a week and a half after war had broken out betweenGermany and Russia, a terrified crowd from the East Prussian border village of Radszen appeared at the office of the . [183] The rape of Afghan women by Soviet troops was common and 11.8 percent of the Soviet war criminals in Afghanistan were convicted for the offence of rape. [citation needed], According to the United Nations Report of the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary (1957): "Soviet tanks fired indiscriminately at every building from which they believed themselves to be under fire. [4] Russian media refers to the crimes against humanity and war crimes as a "Western myth",[5] in Russian history textbooks, the atrocities are either altered to portray the Soviets positively or omitted entirely. It is well known that in WW1 there were no large scale massacres or persecutions of civilians - from any of the main combatants. Soviet forces faced some protests by Chinese communist party leaders against the looting and rapes committed by troops in Manchuria. Some 20,000 . [162], During the winter of 194142, the Red Army captured approximately 10,000 German soldiers each month, but the death rate became so high that the absolute number of prisoners decreased (or was bureaucratically reduced). [citation needed] The Soviet annexation resulted in mass terror, the denial of civil liberties, the destruction of the country's economic system and the suppression of Lithuanian culture. I havent read much in WW I soldiers diaries, but the cadence of your translation reminds me of some of the British soldiers of the period. After the feast I lay down to sleep next to my horse Gabalnik and soon fell asleep. Given the delay of publication, there was also little outward censorship, which was fortunate given the political ramifications of atrocity stories in the twentieth century. On a related note, I would argue that its easy to exaggerate the process of brutalization or weariness as processes that unfold slowly during the war. Post "[150], According to some British and American sources, the Soviets made it a policy to loot and rape civilians in Manchuria. The Soviets slaughtered not only the inhabitans to the last man, woman, and child but French prisoners-of-war too. [127], The Soviet Union also committed war crimes in Romania or against Romanians from the beginning of the occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940 all the way to the German invasion in 1941, and later from the expulsion of the Germans in the region until 1958. Grzegorz Baziur, "Armia Czerwona na Pomorzu Gdaskim 19451947", Janusz Wrbel, "Wyzwoliciele czy Okupanci. East Prussia. And, of course, the publishing process takes a long time. An order of the military council of the 1st Belorussian Front, signed by Marshal Rokossovsky, ordered the shooting of looters and rapists at the scene of the crime. Things are progressing towards a purging of our territory [. In Jul 1946, Knigsberg was renamed Kaliningrad, and Russification of the region began. (From the description of the book you linked, it is clear that this was a phenomenon among many of the wars combatants.). Don't do it again. Over 2,400 civilians were killed. Nevertheless, the events in East Prussia ought to be of interest more broadly to students of twentieth century Russia and to students of the Great War. [158][159], Throughout the Second World War, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau collected and investigated reports of crimes against the Axis POWs. Polska a Rosja 193942. [22], War crimes by Soviet armed forces against civilians and prisoners of war in the territories occupied by the USSR between 1939 and 1941 in regions including Western Ukraine, the Baltic states and Bessarabia in Romania, along with war crimes in 19441945, have been ongoing issues within these countries. [19] In comparison, according to the Morgenthau Report, a total of about 300 Jews died in all incidents involving Polish responsibility. Whole families, women, children and old people were sent to labor camps in Siberia. One example was the Fntna Alb massacre, in which 443,000 Romanians were killed by the Soviet Border Troops and the NKVD while attempting to escape to Romania. On 17 June 1940, Latvia was occupied by Soviet forces. [105][pagesneeded][106][bettersourceneeded][107], In addition, fighter bombers of the Soviet air force flew bombing and strafing missions that targeted columns of refugees. bed bath and beyond pillar candles; bowling game rules and scoring; cira green parking cost According to Soviet sources, 102,125 persons were "resettled" to the GDR in 1947 and 1948, but only 99,481 arrived (GDR authorities attributed this to "perhaps a Soviet calculation error.") In May 1951, another 3,000 East Prussian were shipped to the GDR. [174] The Soviet army indiscriminately killed combatants and noncombatants to ensure submission by the local populations. . . The Russian invasion of East Prussia occurred during World War I, lasting from August to September 1914.As well as being the natural course for the Russian Empire to take upon the declaration of war on the German Empire, it was also an attempt to focus the German Army on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front.Despite having an overwhelming superiority over the Germans in numbers . Data from the Soviet archives indicates 2.4 million Kulaks were deported from 1930 to 1934. [114] About 22,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed during the fighting in Berlin only. After the Germans retook Feodosia, it was learned that every wounded soldier had been massacred by Red Army, Navy, and NKVD personnel. And an Army which did not spare its blood for you! [. [182] Deserters from the Soviet Army in 1984 claimed that they had heard of Afghan women being raped. Between 1941 and 1944, Soviet partisan units conducted raids deep inside Finnish territory, attacking villages and other civilian targets. Today I received joyful news. People . [80], Around 3,500 Finnish prisoners of war, of whom five were women, were captured by the Red Army. In a resolution of 22 January 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR declared that the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 19 January, used to impose emergency rule in Baku and military deployment, constituted an act of aggression. by WalterS 09 Nov 2004, 17:22, Post It is interesting to compare the excerpts that you have translated from this diary with the diary of S. F. Putiakov (1941-1942), which I translated for a recent anthology intended for undergraduates (The Russia Reader, Duke U. P., 2010, pp. The evacuation of East Prussia refers to the evacuation of the German civilian population and military personnel in East Prussia and the Klaipda region between 20 January, and March 1945, as part of the evacuation of German civilians towards the end of World War II. Message 3 - Russsian Atrocities in Berlin Posted on: 05 March 2005 by Trooper Tom Canning - WW2 Site Helper. [115], Western estimates of the traceable number of rape victims range from two hundred thousand to two million. The fact that these men were whipped by a German baron for driving their horses too hard (and not for raping the locals) says volumes about relations between soldiers and officers, ethnic groups within the Russian army (which had plenty of ethnically German officers in 1914), and the mundane violence of life on the front starting from the very first days of the war. And so upon our entry into the city we also began to plunder. [156], The Soviet Army committed crimes against the Japanese civilian populations and surrendered military personnel in the closing stages of World War II during the assaults on Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. We must remember that, for the most part, WWI was a dynastic struggle, not a "war of annihilation" that WWII in the east became. From 1824-1878, East Prussia was combined with West Prussia to form the Province of Prussia, after which they were re-established as separate provinces. Some sources claim that as many as 1,000 civilians may have been executed during the incident. [69] In 1945 alone, the number of members of the Polish Underground State who were deported to Siberia and various labor camps in the Soviet Union reached 50,000. East Prussia (Ostpreuen), a former province of Prussia and the 2. und 3. [43] The destruction battalions murdered 1,850 people in Estonia. As well as being the natural course for the Russian Empire to take upon the declaration of war on the German Empire, it was also an attempt to focus the Imperial German Army on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front. Many Russian soldiers, though amazed at the richness of Germany compared to their own country, senselessly destroyed captured cities. [48], The estimated death toll in Soviet prisons and camps between 1944 and 1953 was at least 14,000. Kolk and Kislyiy lodged a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights, alleging that the Criminal Code of 1946 of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR) was valid at the time, applicable also in Estonia, and that the said Code had not provided for punishment of crimes against humanity. The Ministry of Foreign affairs was closed isolating Latvia from the rest of the world. Despite having been invited "as a comrade", Korneev exploded at them for offering "such insinuations" against the Red Army. 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