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==Civilian populations==
==Civilian populations==
This article maintains the fiction that WWII was fought between professional armies. Western armies (Angelo-American & German) and the Japanese deliberately targeted [[civilian]]s for death. The Germans in the [[Holocaust]], [[Leningrad]] and elsewhere, the British in [[Hamburg]], the Americans deliberately targeted civilian populations to kill them in [[Dresden]], [[Tokyo]]. and [[Hiroshima]], and the Japanese in [[China]]. While the Soviet armies did not deliberately target civilians to kill them, the Soviet Union, like the Czarist Empire, always had a labor shortage and need for workers in Siberia. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 04:35, January 28, 2026 (EST)
This article maintains the fiction that WWII was fought between professional armies. Western armies (Angelo-American & German) and the Japanese deliberately targeted [[civilian]]s for death. The Germans in the [[Holocaust]], [[Leningrad]] and elsewhere, the British in [[Hamburg]], the Americans deliberately targeted civilian populations to kill them in [[Dresden]], [[Tokyo]]. and [[Hiroshima]], and the Japanese in [[China]]. While the Soviet armies did not deliberately target civilians to kill them, the Soviet Union, like the Czarist Empire, always had a labor shortage and need for workers in Siberia. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 04:35, January 28, 2026 (EST)
The Soviet Union was not a member of the [[Geneva Convention]]. Hence [[POW]]s essentially earned a life sentence in a labor camp. After [[Stalin]]'s death, one of [[Khruschev]] the "reformer's" first actions was to amnesty and release all [[German]] prisoners (those that survived the work camps). This was one of [[Solzhenitsyn]]'s biggest complaints - the fact that the [[fascist]]s were released while he, a [[Red Army]] veteran, remained incarcerated. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 04:49, January 28, 2026 (EST)