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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 exterminate populations, the Soviet Union, like the Czarist Empire, always had a labor shortage and need for workers in Siberia. So populations could be targeted for deportation. (We see this in the case of [[Kaja Kallas]], whose grandfather was a Nazi collaborator. So the whole family was deported. A form of "collective punishment". I leave it for the reader to decide if deporting a whole family for a [[crime]] against the state is more compassionate than splitting the family up). [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]} 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 exterminate populations, the Soviet Union, like the Czarist Empire, always had a labor shortage and need for workers in Siberia. So populations could be targeted for deportation. (We see this in the case of [[Kaja Kallas]], whose grandfather was a Nazi collaborator. So the whole family was deported. A form of "collective punishment". I leave it for the reader to decide if deporting a whole family for a [[crime]] against the state is more compassionate than splitting the family up). [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]} 04:35, January 28, 2026 (EST)

The Soviet Union was not a member of the [[Geneva Convention]] util 1960. 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]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]} 04:49, January 28, 2026 (EST)

The Soviet Union was not a member of the [[Geneva Convention]] until 1960. 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]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]} 04:49, January 28, 2026 (EST)