Truman and Churchill No Better Than Stalin: Izvestia, Russia

A resolution passed by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe equating Stalinism with Nazism has Russians fuming – and lashing out at the the U.S. and Britian for what the Kremlin implies were war crimes that the allies were never punished for.

The director general of Russia’s Agency of Political and Economic Communications warns that reopening this ‘Pandora’s Box’ could have dangerous unintended consequences, and expresses Russian aggravation by highlighting the horrific firebombing of Dresden by the U.S. and Britain.

For Izvestia, Dmitriy Orlov writes in part:

“In 1939, Dresden had a population of 642,000 people. At the time of the bombings there were approximately 200,000 refugees. David Irving, in his book ‘The Destruction of Dresden,’ estimated the number of casualties at 135,000 people.

“The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE], as everyone knows, has ‘equated’ the crimes of Nazism and Stalinism. But what kind of OSCE resolution is needed to evaluate the Dresden tragedy? What should it be compared to? And who now, after 64 years, will bear responsibility for it? The ‘authoritarian regime of Prime Minister Churchill?’ And, by the way, who will answer for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The ‘American military regime’ and that great democrat, Truman?”

By Dmitriy Orlov*

Translated By Yekaterina Blinova

July 31, 2009

Russia – Izvestia – Original Article (Russian)

Everyone knows why on August 6, the bells toll in Japan. This day marks the anniversary of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima. According to conservative estimates, it killed nearly 150,000 people – civilians. But why do the bells toll in Germany every year – on February 13, at exactly 10:10am?

In the victorious spring of ’45, British and American aircraft carried out not atomic – but more than tragic air strikes on German cities. Their symbol was the tragedy of Dresden. The bells toll for the Germans who perished in the attack.

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