The looters, were drunk, raped. As Russian "liberators" behaved in Slovakia in 1944

Illustration from Dariusz Kalinsky Red Plague, 2017. It gathered memories of Soviet troops in Poland at the end of World War II. (Photo: Ciekawostkihistoryczne. pl) "Why are you running away from the Russians? They are good, ”the Ukrainians asked in the Slovak city of Zhilina. Here at the railway station in the summer of 1944 there were long wagons with fugitives. But soon the beliefs of the Slovaks about these Slavic brothers changed dramatically.

The conclusion of several modern Bratislava monitoring companies, which interviewed compatriots two months ago, was somewhat unexpected. "The majority of Slovakia's population would be more welcome to Russia than Ukraine [in the war, which began with the invasion of the Russians on February 24], show the survey data as things, Slovakin?" Said the Dennik newspaper.

Instead, the Video of the NB is reminiscent of the Slovak reaction to the Russians who freed them from the Nazis at the end of World War II. "In mid-July 1944, innumerable columns of refugees and endless columns and machines filled all the roads towards the Slovak border," wrote a forward of Kyiv Dynamo of pre-war times, Alexander Skotsen in a book of memoirs with football in the world.

"Everything loaded to the shores by humans and all sorts of supplies for the long road was floating an unrestrained flow to the south. " It was invited to play with Soviet football players when the USSR annexed Western Ukraine in the fall of 1939. In 1941, the athlete got to the NKVD casemates due to a survey of a teammate who took money from him and obviously did not want to return.

Skopeni was rescued from the camps or the execution of the Skopen, the then head of the Kiev Chekists, because he was a football fan. And with the beginning of the German-Soviet War, Lviv managed to get into their hometown. But in the summer of 1944, Skotsen stood in Zhilin with his family for more than a month, because he left Lviv before the Red offensive. The football player mentioned: “Slovaks sympathized with our grief, even many of them personally brought food for us.