Remembering the fallen

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Remembering the fallen

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:01 am

Its nice to know that we're all still human and we care, irrsepective of our differences....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30306994
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Re: Remembering the fallen

Postby Webb » Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:07 pm

One reason there are so many unknowns is that the Soviet Union refused to allow searches for the bodies.

The government didn't want anyone to know how many people really died.

Digging for their lives: Russia's volunteer body hunters

Immediately after the war, the priority was to rebuild a shattered country, he says. But that does not explain why later the battlefields weren't cleared and the fallen soldiers not identified and buried.

The diggers now believe that some were deliberately concealed. The governing council of the USSR issued decrees in 1963 about destroying any traces of war, says Ilya.

"If you take a map showing where battles took place, then see where all the new forest plantations and building projects were located, you'll find they coincide with the front line. Nobody will convince me they planted trees for ecological reasons."

"They actively planted new trees on the battlefield - they ploughed furrows and put the trees exactly in the places where the unburied soldiers were lying," Marina says.
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