Yet the discovery of detailed NKVD-KGB records proved double-edged. On one hand, they provided irrefutable proof of Soviet complicity, and enabled some families to recover their relatives’ remains. On the other, this secret service documentation revealed that the grave contained the bones of individuals from a much wider range of national and ideological backgrounds than was initially supposed: alongside two hundred and six Lithuanian participants of the post-war anti-Soviet resistance, documents listed thirty-two soldiers and supporters of the Polish Home Army; eighty members of the Lithuanian police (under [Axis] control) who had collaborated with Nazis and their subordinate officers, or worked as supervisors of prisons and concentration camps; and two hundred and fifty-seven people of different national backgrounds who were sentenced for crimes against civilians and participation in crimes connected to the Holocaust.
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Luckily, he comforts his readers:
It should be noted that there is good reason to doubt the validity of some of these accusations: Soviet authorities regularly categorized their enemies as Nazi collaborators or as being complicit in the killing of Jews, where the evidence was slim or non-existent.
The author continues:
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Luckily, he comforts his readers:
Because, as any of my followers know, being an active, generic anticommunist is so much better than being a Fascist specifically. A million times better. I’m sure that all of those anticommunists resisting Soviet integration were very nice people!
That last link — holy fuck