On 2nd anniversary of invasion, Ukraine receives a concentration camp reminder
NewsToday marks the second anniversary of the Ukraine war.
EDITION ROOM28 (Germany) have produced a Ukrainian edition of their Brundibár book, remembering a children’s opera made in the Terezin concentration camp. Parents of Ukrainian children or anyone interested can obtain a free copy of the book by sending an email to edition@room28.de
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The irony being that 27 million people in the Soviet Union died fighting the Nazis compared to about 400,000 in the USA. Total US losses were only about 1.4% the Total number of USSR losses. Ukraine alone lost 6,850,000. Russia lost 13,950,000.
The US percentage of deaths in fighting Germany becomes even smaller when we consider that about a third of US losses were fighting Japan. The percentage of US losses then becomes about 1% the total number of Soviet losses. If we calculate just Russian deaths, the US ratio is just 2.1% of Russian losses.
About 1% of US military personnel died in WWII. For the USSR it was one in four, or 25%.
At just the Battle of Stalingrad, which became the turning point of the war, the Soviets lost 1.2 million soldiers which is four times the total number of losses for the USA for the entire war including those fighting Japan.
WWII was effectively a German/USSR war.
For Germany to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the Russian invasion with Brundibár is thus more than strange. History is turned around to create more hatred. I find Putin so odious I can’t even look at photos of him, but this Brundibár book shows the ends to which people go to promote the hatred war causes and the way history is ironically twisted.
Does that figure of 27 million include those killed in the 1939-40 invasion of Finland? Does it include those deported from the Baltic states? Or Eastern Poland? Does it include the Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans uprooted and scattered to die in Siberia? Does it include the victims of the prison massacres in the retreat of 1941? Does it include the increase in Gulag deaths?
Don’t know, but keep working. Maybe you can chisel the US ratio up to 1.7%.
“WWII was effectively a German/USSR war.”
It’s getting ridiculous. Just saying.
Umm…are you forgetting the UK? Who fought alone for 2 1/2 years before the Americans entered the war?
I did not forget that. I was quoting William Osborne. Hence the “It’s getting ridiculous.” comment.
So, your point would be that it is too bad that the United States was not invaded by Japan and Germany? How dare the US go through WWII with such a small number of casualties. Perhaps Roosevelt should have executed most of the US top military just before WWII,as Stalin did. Would that have been more acceptable to you?
Is there some part of this discussion that is deleted or missing? How did the U.S. and its losses become part of the discussion of this book when there is none in Mr. Lebrecht’s original caption?