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Show I , . 1 I . Wednesday, OdoUr ll, 1967 DESERET NEWS, 5A sses Dm)vosDini t Continued from 5 Find Page . 1 God was forbidden; church hells, silent nearly 10 years, rang out again, even on the guests like Harry Hopkins and Joseph E. Davies that his people were not fighting for com munism but for their father-lan- NOT FOB COMMUNISM When the Russians finally began to stand up to the invaders, the West talked glibly . of , their "loyalty to the Soviets and to Stalin person- Inside - the . USSR that delusion was shared neither by the government'' nor the governed. Again and again Stalin explained to foreign d. ?' Gordon Lobb Over 30 Years in the Diamond Business LI IT D Pay Nothing Down v As little M as $10 per month Priced J100, $200, J300& up U ALWAYS A German Journalist who has Written extensively about the Eastem campaigns, Jurgen Thornwald, refers to "the real joy with which the population everywhere received 'the advancing german dim; the words of greeting, first church services in 20 years. In town and village alike the Inhabitants , turned out with bread and salt, the ancient Slavic ceremonial of welcome. Civilians by the tens of thousands flocked to volunteer for noncombatant services to the Germans.- - They sal-all- y. enlisted willingly, in this honeymoon phase, for transport to Germany in labor contingents. In many dties, the people made gay bonfires of books by Lenin, Stalin, Marx. Communist , "activists tried to run away, as modi out of fear of their next door neighbors as of the foreign forces, NAZIS STUPIDITY A German officer who had served in Russia for years before the conflict, Harwlth von would Bittenfeld, testify: "With an intelligent political policy, we could have won the war in the East simply because the Russian - people themselves would have overthrown the regime. But Hitlers policy, instead, was arrogant and deeply He did not seek insulting affection in Russia but blind obedience based on animal fears. All Slavs were openly treated as Untermenschen suited only for future colonial Prisoners-of-wa-r exploitation. were massed in the open in subzero weather, neglected, underfed and maltreated, so that hundreds of thousands SAVE InM 8ta,MNf to SURETY LIFE BUILDING 1935 SOyiH frontiers, mostly in areas under allied occupation. Several million of them refused to return to the USSR. They tional democracy as his properished miserably. Enough knew full well the hardships fessed goal. of them made their way back and humiliations that awaited to Russia, however, to spread Not until its final agony them. Anything seemed to the news of Nazi racist condid Germany unleash its Rusthem better than' resuming sian contingents against the life under communism. tempt and inhumanity. To placate the Soviet dictaHitler was committing his Communists, but it was too late to affect the outcome. tor, the U.S.- - and its allies, - greatest and in the end fatal blunder. Quickly enough. the Until then they had been used, alas, used force to repatriate under protest, on other trams. the runaway subjects. Vlasov-ite- s real nature of the conqueror was manifest: his" racist . Toward the end of the war the were just a small part of OS Credinsanities, his cruelty, his Vlasov movement w the Soviet citizens driven with' ited with nearly a million allied and trunplans for permanent occupabayonets men. of Only a' small fraction, dismemberment tion and cheons into eastbound transhowever, was actually in the He Russia. accomplished port trains for delivery to other Kremlin ROA. There .were the not: could what Stalin vengeance. creation of a genuine fighting groups, particularly national- the war years Through independence formations of wishful hoping had foreseen patriotic spirit in an GeorThe Fuhrer, a Ukranians, Cossacks, dedication. great and happy changes in Turkomens. and gians Soviet escapee said later, the Soviet system as the After the German collapse, reward for heroism and sacri"played his greatest trump, tiie peoples trust, into Stalins Vlasov ' and his main assofice. Without making promisciates were handed over to es, the regime subtly encourhands. Stalin for execution. Tens of aged the people to believe that IN ENEMY UNIFORMS thousands of his followers, the nightmare past was ended In a fine recent novel, Parsimilarly, were handed over and an era of comparative allax by Vladimir Yurasov, a to Moscow for imprisonment freedom ahead. Russian emigre who had and mass extermination. It OLD ROUTINE fought as an officer in the was not an episode in which When the war was won, the Red Army against the GerWestern statesmen could take dictatorship was not loosened mans, there is a memorable any pride. but grimly tightened. .The old scene. An American official is At the wars end an estimatterror was back in full swing. a the hero, Interrogating ed six million Soviet men, Every department of Soviet Soviet officer seeking asylum. and women children the life was purged and repurged, "Why did men like you Red slave laborers and and the camp population imported - soldiers put up such a heroic , liberated war prisoners were swelled. fight for the regime?' he stranded beyond their native An able American journalist asks. The Russian replies: "All I can say is that we fought for our homes and our homeland and not for the Soviet regime.". teen-ager- s. old-sty- , But a million Soviet soldiers and officers, possibly more, chose to fight for home and homeland in another way-- by donning German uniforms in the hope of overthrowing the communist regime. Soviet Russia was the only participant in the great war substantial which supplied fighting forces to the enemy. The largest and best known formation (except in the USSR, . where it has been smeared out of recognition) was the Russian Army of Liberation (ROA by its Russian initials), better known as the Vlasov movement General Andrei A. Vlasov, chief of tiie ROA, had been an authentic Soviet hero, decorated personally by Stalin for his successful defense of Moscow and a member of the Central Committee of the ruling party. But when captured by the Germans, he readily agreed to organize from among Soviet war prisoners forces to fight ID LI MIT Police in Los Angeles and. LOS ANGELES' (UPI) Flames raged out of control Ventura Counties were hunting With along a four-mil-e familiar front Wednes - (or threC) iong.haired young thoroughly Russia through long residence day in tiie Los Padres National1 men , dlfferent narto of there, John Scott of Time-Lif- Forest Authorities pressed their wrote in October, 1959, search for arsonists, arresting the Simi .Valley where fires later Erupted. that he had seen a process of three durpolitical disillusionment The only blaze still out of ing his visit to the USSR that control in Southern California year: "It has already brought had blackened 7,000 acres in the Soviet Union to a position Ventura County and about 1,000 where, in my opinion, in the acres of valuable watershed in event of a war or civil strife the Los Padres Forest Ventura County Juvenile auwhich forced a choice upon them, most Soviet, citizens thorities questioned three would reject the Soviet gov- students of Stall Valley High girls ernment and Communism, un- School two less a foreign invader unified and a boy who admitted fire off a four-acr- e them, as did Hitler, with the touching school the near Monday afterthreat of an even more cruel noon. dictatorship if he won. 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