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Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II

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1171:, a collaborationist unit that fought for Nazi Germany whose men were either Russian emigres living in Yugoslavia or the sons of these emigres. Thorpe wrote that strictly speaking the term "White Russian" described any Russian who fought on the White side in the Russian Civil War or those anti-Communist Russians who went into exile, but in British official circles in World War Two and in the British Army the term "White Russian" was used indiscriminately to describe any anti-Communist person from the territory of the modern Soviet Union, regardless if they were Russian or not. Thus, the British called the Vlasov Army "White Russians" even through General Andrei Vlasov and his men were all former Red Army POWs who had decided to fight for Germany. Thorpe argued that this blanket use of the term "White Russian" together with a lack of qualified officers who could speak Russian ensured that the British in 1945 did not make much effort to distinguish between those Cossacks living in the Soviet Union who had volunteered to fight for Germany vs. those Cossacks living in exile who had volunteered to fight for Germany. Thorpe further argued that Tolstoy seemed unaware of the way the British used the term "White Russian" in World War Two and as he uses the term "White Russian" in the more limited sense, he assumes that the British were consciously repatriating people whom they knew were not Soviet citizens. 1156:
1944-45 and British policies on repatriation of people to the Soviet Union was dictated by the fear that Stalin might hold the British POWs as hostages. Morris argued that Churchill had a well founded belief that if the British granted asylum to the Cossacks, then the Soviets would not return the British POWs. Under the Yalta agreement, the Soviets were to repatriate American and British POWs that came into Red Army hands in exchange for the American and British governments repatriating people from the Soviet Union who fell into their hands. Morris argued that if Britain broke the terms of the Yalta Agreement by granting asylum to the Cossacks, then the Soviet Union might likewise break the terms of the Yalta agreement and refuse to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of British POWs whom the Germans had concentrated in POW camps in eastern Germany (it was German policy to build POW camps in eastern Germany as it made it more difficult for POWs who escaped to reach western Europe). Morris also maintained that since the Cossacks had fought for Germany, it was unreasonable to expect Churchill to sacrifice thousands of British POWs just to save them. As it was, the British POWs in Soviet hands were returned to the United Kingdom "humanely and expeditiously".
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Aldington had made Tolstoy into a "national martyr", and felt that the case showed a need for reforming English libel law. Booker described the British media as suffering from a "Cleverdick Culture", accusing most journalists of being overtly motivated by the need to increase sales in a very competitive business via sensationalistic stories intended to promote public outrage and of being excessively credulous, especially about topics in which the journalists knew little, thus leading journalists to accept the Tolstoy thesis uncritically. Booker noted that the BBC produced nine television or radio documentaries that largely accepted Tolstoy's allegations at face value, which he saw as an example of the "Cleverdick Culture". By contrast, Ian Mitchell in his 1997 book
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evening; some Cossacks were worried, but the British reassured them that everything was in order. One British officer told the Cossacks, "I assure you, on my word of honour as a British officer, that you are just going to a conference". However, no hard evidence exists for any such guarantees or promises. By then British–Cossack relationships were friendly to the extent that many on both sides had developed feelings for one another. The Lienz Cossack repatriation was exceptional, because the Cossacks forcefully resisted their repatriation to the USSR; one Cossack allegedly noted, "The
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least in part an effort to calm down a very tense situation. Knight maintained that the British wanted to clear Austria of all the vast number of prisoners they had taken to free up soldiers now struck guarding the prisoners for a possible war with Yugoslavia and to improve relations by returning peoples who were the enemies of the Yugoslav and Soviet governments. Both the Yugoslav and Soviet governments believed the British were intending to use Axis collaborationist forces such as the Cossack corps against them. To help resolve the raging controversy, Brigadier
1048:, whose conclusions largely echoed those reached by Knight in 1986 that British policy in Austria was largely governed by preparations for a possible war with Yugoslavia and perhaps the Soviet Union as well. About Tolstoy's allegations that Macmillan was a major war criminal, the Cowgill committee concluded that Macmillan's role in the repatriations was very small and largely dictated by military considerations. During its investigation, the Cowgill committee found copies of British documents that were not available in the 535:(later Lord Aldington) who was the chief of staff to the British forces issued an order stating "individual cases will not be considered unless particularly pressed ... In all cases of doubt, the individual will be treated as a Soviet national". As result of this policy, citizens of many countries were sent to USSR as "Soviet citizens" in a hasty operation and no right to appeal. In Tolstoy's description, even people displaying a French passport or British First World War medals were handed over to Soviets. 1111:"In Moscow, as among most people who had knowledge and experience of Russia, we were appalled to learn rather late in the day that we were forcibly returning White Russians and others who did not hold Soviet citizenship to the Soviet Union. It was all the more misguided because the Soviet side at first did not lay any claim to them. As far as I recall, Golikov did not initially refer to them at all. On the contrary, the Soviet side at first said and wrote that their concern was 735:, a mass partial amnesty (Amnesty of 1953) was granted for some labor camp inmates on 27 March 1953 with the end of the Gulag system. It was then extended on 17 September 1955. Some specific political crimes were omitted from amnesty: people convicted under Section 58.1(c) of the Criminal Code, stipulating that in the event of a military man escaping Russia, every adult member of his family who abetted the escape or who knew of it would be subject to five to ten years' 867:. The 1970s were a period when détente had become fashionable in some quarters and many on the right believed the West was losing the Cold War. The subject of the repatriations in 1945 were used by a variety of right-wing authors in the 1970s-1980s as a symbol of both of the malevolence of the Soviet Union and of a "craven" policy towards the Soviet Union alleged to have been pursued by the successive American and British governments since the Second World War. 1807:, pp. 124-125: "In a second telegram sent to Combined Chiefs of Staff, Alexander asked for guidelines regarding the final disposition of '50,000 Cossacks including 11,000 women, children and old men; present estimate of total 35,000 Chetniks – 11,000 of them already evacuated to Italy – and 25,000 German and Croat units.' In each of above cases 'return them to their country of origin immediately might be fatal to their health'." 1180: 960:; Tolstoy has suggested several times that Aldington wanted the patronage of Macmillan, a rising star in the Conservative Party, and would do anything that might please Macmillan such as repatriating the Cossacks in accordance with his wishes. In response, Aldington sued Watts for libel, and Tolstoy insisted on being included as a defendant, seeing a chance to promote his cause. 482:, and then executed. On 17 January 1947 Krasnov and Shkuro were hanged in a public square. Gen. Helmuth von Pannwitz of the Wehrmacht, who was instrumental in the formation and leadership of the Cossacks taken from German POW camps to fight the Soviets, decided to share the Cossacks' Soviet repatriation and was executed for war crimes, along with five Cossack generals and 2887: 1127:, in which he wrote: "there was almost no part of the story which we found to be free from serious error, even to the point where atrocities and massacres described at length were found not to have taken place at all. Even the general belief that most of the Cossacks had died after their return to the Soviet Union turned out to be a wild exaggeration". In a review of 871:
British intellectual whose fund-raising help build the monument accused "the British government and their advisors of merciless inhumanity", and ignoring the fact that Churchill was a Conservative went on to blame the repatriations on "the hypocrisy and feebleness of progressive leftists who turned a blind eye to the communist enslavement of Eastern Europe."
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their bare hands. They started – with considerable success – to destroy the ship's engines. ... A sergeant ... mixed barbiturates into their coffee. Soon, all of the prisoners fell into a deep, coma-like sleep. It was in this condition that the prisoners were brought to another Soviet boat for a speedy return to Stalin's hangmen.
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Between 2 October-30 November 1989, the much publicised libel trial of Tolstoy vs. Aldington took place and ended with the jury ruling in the favour of the latter and awarding him £1.5 million. The judgement, which forced Tolstoy into bankruptcy, was widely criticized as excessive and unfair. The way
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in his 1986 article "Harold Macmillan and the Cossacks: Was There A Klagenfurt Conspiracy?" accused Tolstoy of scholarly misconduct, writing that in May 1945 British policy in Austria was dictated by Operation Beehive, which entitled preparing for a possible war with Yugoslavia and perhaps the Soviet
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that carried out the repatriation. In consultation with Tolstoy, Watts wrote and published a pamphlet accusing Aldington of war crimes for his involvement in repatriating the Cossacks. In 1945, Toby Low (as Aldington then was known) was planning after leaving the Army to enter politics by running as
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in their magazine published a cover story with a photo of Macmillan from 1945 with the question "Guilty of War Crimes?" The question was rhetorical as the article accepted Tolstoy's charges against Macmillan and sought to link his "one nation conservatism" with a policy of weakness towards the Soviet
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Reflecting the increased popular interest in the subject of the repatriations, which had become by the early 1980s to be a symbol of western "pusillanimity" towards the Soviet Union, a monument was unveiled in London on 6 March 1982 to "all the victims of Yalta". John Joliffe, a conservative Catholic
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One of the core controversies that led to popular outcry and protests was the British command attitude to establishing Soviet citizenship per Yalta agreement, as the camp contained a broad mix of citizens of various countries, including those who left USSR long before the war and obtained citizenship
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and the Cossack National Center chairman Vasily Glazkov, all publicly praised the German campaign. Despite this outpouring of support, Hitler and other top officials initially denied Cossack émigrés from having any military or political role in the war against the Soviets. It was not until 1942 when
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The British historian Edwyn Morris in his 2008 essay "The Repatriation of the Cossacks from Austria in 1945" argued that for Churchill a major concern in 1945 was securing the return of all the British POWs in German POW camps who had fallen into Soviet hands as the Red Army advanced into Germany in
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The first to commit suicide, by hanging, was the Cossack editor Evgenij Tarruski. The second was General Silkin, who shot himself...The Cossacks refused to board the trucks. British soldiers with pistols and clubs began using their clubs, aiming at the heads of the prisoners. They first dragged the
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for treason, and hoped for a better outcome by surrendering to the Western Allies, such as to the British and Americans. However, after being taken prisoner by the Allies, they were packed into small trains. Unbeknownst to them, they were sent east to Soviet territories. Many men, women and children
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alleging a conspiracy led by Macmillan to deliberately hand over refugees from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia knowing full well they would be executed. As Macmillan went on to serve as prime minister between 1957 and 1963, Tolstoy's allegations attracted tremendous attention in Britain while also
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and during the course of the interview Kennedy asked several questions about the Cossack repatriation in 1945. Macmillan seems to have been taken by surprise by Kennedy's questions, and the defensive tone of his answers certainly gave public the impression that he had something to hide. Several of
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First, they refused to leave their barracks when ordered to do so. The military police then used tear gas, and, half-dazed, the prisoners were driven under heavy guard to the harbor where they were forced to board a Soviet vessel. Here the two hundred immediately started to fight. They fought with
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and posts, their administration, churches, schools and military units. There, they fought the partisans and persecuted the local population, committing numerous atrocities. The measures, consisting of clearing the Italian inhabitants of the area from their homes and taking stern steps not to allow
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in 1944–1945, meaning no-one had any sympathy for them. By contrast, Major Hugh Lunghi who served as part of the British Military Mission in Moscow during World War Two and was closely involved in the talks to repatriate British POWs taken prisoner by the Germans who had been liberated by the Red
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while Britain supported retaining Trieste within Italy. As Yugoslavia was a Soviet ally in 1945, there were very real fears at the time that an Anglo-Yugoslav war could easily escalate into an Anglo-Soviet war. Knight argued that the forced repatriations in Austria undertaken in May 1945 were at
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media alike as argument raged over the merits of combatants in a struggle over who might have done what over a few days in 1945. The case of "the Cossacks" has been perhaps the single most prominent example of historical investigation to be turned into journalism, not only in acres of newsprint
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did not deal specifically with the repatriation of the Cossacks, instead dealing with the repatriation of people to the Soviet Union in general, the book increased popular interest in the subject, as did his claim that Anglo-American policy towards the Soviet Union was driven in a fundamentally
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On 28 May 1945 the British Army arrived at Camp Peggetz, in Lienz, where there were 2,479 Cossacks, including 2,201 officers and soldiers. They allegedly went to invite the Cossacks to an important conference with British officials, informing them that they would return to Lienz by 18:00 that
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alleged that four of the six massacres of Cossacks by the NKVD described by Tolstoy never took place and: "Of the Cossacks repatriated to Russia, few were actually killed; horrendous as their privations were, the vast majority survived the Gulag." Horne argued that the "absurd" sum awarded to
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wrote on 19 October 1990: "As Cowgill shows, Macmillan was telling the truth; that he had merely advised officers on the ground that Allied policy under the Yalta agreement was to hand back the Cossacks and he had, like everybody else, had been unaware that a large number of them were Russian
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The Cossack officers, more politically aware than the enlisted men, expected that repatriation to the USSR would be their ultimate fate. They believed the British would have sympathised with their anti-Communism, but were unaware that their fates had been decided at the Yalta Conference. Upon
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men out of the crowd, and threw them into the trucks. The men jumped out. They beat them again, and threw them onto the floor of the trucks. Again, they jumped out. The British then hit them with rifle butts until they lay unconscious, and threw them, like sacks of potatoes, in the trucks.
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supplied Aldington with certain documents that were denied to Tolstoy has been an especially controversial aspect of the trial, and Tolstoy continues to maintain that he was a victim of "the Establishment". Tolstoy retained a loyal set of defenders consisting of the Conservative MP
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before the establishment of the USSR, all Cossack prisoners of war were later demanded. After Yalta, Churchill questioned Stalin, asking, "Did the Cossacks and other minorities fight against us?" Stalin replied, "They fought with ferocity, not to say savagery, for the Germans".
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In April 1995, Nigel Watts was sentenced to 18 months in prison for repeating the libel that Aldington was a war criminal in a pamphlet. The sentence was reduced to nine months on appeal. In June 1995, Watts was released from prison after issuing a public apology to Aldington.
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Macmillan's statements such as he felt no guilt because the Cossacks were "rebels against Russia", "not friends of ours" and most damaging of all "the Cossacks were practically savages" did not help his reputation. In 1986, Tolstoy followed up his 1983 article with the book
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Of those Cossacks who escaped repatriation, many hid in forests and mountainsides, some were hidden by the local German populace, but most hid in different identities as Latvians, Poles, Yugoslavians, Turks, Armenians and even Ethiopians. Eventually they were admitted to
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sinister and conspiratorial way, punishing the alleged friends of the West such as the Vlasov Army and the Cossacks while rewarding its enemies such as the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn describes the forced repatriation of the Cossacks by Winston Churchill as follows:
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that the overwhelming feeling shared by himself and other British Army officers in Austria in 1945 was that the Cossacks had willingly fought for Nazi Germany and had committed terrible atrocities against Italian civilians while fighting against
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Another Cossack group whose fate became tied with the Germans consisted of approximately 25,000 Cossack refugees and irregulars who evacuated the North Caucasus alongside the Wehrmacht in 1943. This group, known as "Cossachi Stan", migrated from
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agreement to the repatriation of every so-called "Soviet" citizen held prisoner because the Allied leaders feared that the Soviets either might delay or refuse repatriation of the Allied POWs whom the Red Army had liberated from Nazi POW camps.
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featured an image taken from a Nazi propaganda poster showing a demonical ape dressed in a Red Army uniform surrounded by fire and brimstone reaching out towards Europe. The first book about the subject published on official documentation was
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of the Kuban Host, documented the event. Neither the books of Mackiewicz or Naumenko were translated into English for decades after their publication and hence were almost completely ignored in the English-speaking world. The two volumes of
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On 1 June 1945 the UK placed 32,000 Cossacks (with their women and children) into trains and trucks and delivered them to the Red Army for repatriation to the Soviets; similar repatriations occurred that year in the US occupation zones in
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It was in the context of the wish to remain on good terms with Stalin that, according to Edward Peterson, the US chose to hand over several hundred thousand German prisoners to the Soviet Union in May 1945 as a "gesture of friendship".
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accused the Cowgill committee of a "whitewash", and maintained that Tolstoy's claims that Britain had willfully sent thousands of people to their deaths in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia was still correct. Cowgill sued Harris and the
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government “selling off the family silver”, which made him into a hate figure for the "dry" Conservatives. Additionally, many people on the right-wing of the Conservative Party were passionately opposed to British membership of the
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Most of those Cossacks and Russians fought the Allies, specifically the Soviets, committing several atrocities, and in some cases, terrorising Soviet civilians while posing as Red Army advance units in Red Army uniforms in the
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ordering that "any person who is not (repeat not) a Soviet citizen under British law must not (repeat not) be sent back to the Soviet Union unless he expressly desires", which was ignored by the British command on the ground.
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kept the Cossacks in a hastily established camp. For a few days the British supplied them with food; meanwhile, the Red Army's advance units approached to within a few miles east, rapidly advancing to meet the Allies.
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in 1977, which was described by a critical historian, D.R. Thrope, as "a work of considerable scholarship". Tolstoy describes this and other events resulting from the Yalta Conference as the "Secret Betrayal" (cf.
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In 1985, a British businessman named Nigel Watts became involved in a lengthy and bitter dispute over an insurance claim for the previous ten years with the Sun Alliance insurance company, whose chairman was
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of France vetoed the British application. For many people on the British right, Macmillan is viewed as something alike to a traitor because of the 1961 application to join the EEC. In 1986, the
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came close to accusing Tolstoy of scholarly misconduct, stating that the "White Russians" that Macmillan mentioned in his diary in 1945 were not the Cossacks as Tolstoy claimed, but rather the
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and from farther afield Solzhenitsyn, who was living in exile in the United States at the time. The Tolstoy vs. Aldington case attracted much publicity as the British journalist
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Following the departure of troops from Newlands Corner Camp to D-Day landings, those deemed to be Soviet citizens were held at the camp pending their forcible repatriation.
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that Macmillan gave the orders to repatriate all Cossacks regardless if they were Soviet citizens or not. On 11 December 1984, Macmillan was interviewed on the BBC by
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and other Cossack leaders had persuaded Hitler to allow Cossack troops, as well as civilians and non-combatant Cossacks, to permanently settle in the sparsely settled
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field commanders had utilized Cossack defectors from the Red Army since the summer of 1941. In early 1943, most of the Cossack units fighting in alliance with the
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discovering that they would be repatriated, many escaped, some probably aided by their Allied captors; some passively resisted, and others killed themselves.
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in 1973 by the Austrian-born American author Julius Epstein, which was based on U.S. sources and primarily dealt with the American role in the repatriation.
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The Russian Cossacks of XV Cossack Cavalry Corps, stationed in Yugoslavia since 1943, were part of the column headed for Austria that would take part in the
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claimed that the prisoners were Soviet citizens as of 1939, although there were many of them that had left the country before or soon after the end of the
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has been republished several times in Polish, but has apparently never been translated into English. The first book written in English on the subject was
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Jeremy Murray-Brown, Documentary at Boston University (Describes the extradition event in great detail, focusing on a 7-minute film-clip of the event.)
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and other British officials to hand over the Cossacks. In his article, Tolstoy alleged that on 13 May 1945 in a meeting in the Austrian city of
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because of "the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads", the latter of which he and his family had survived, but, tormented by
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Army, remained highly critical of the decision to repatriate the Cossacks. Lunghi who worked closely with the "very ruthless" General
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repatriated by the British and Americans in 1945, a policy which he portrayed as craven and self-defeating. Though Solzhenitsyn in
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The subject of the repatriation was largely unknown in the English-speaking world until 1974 when Lord Bethell published his book
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on 22 June 1941, several anticommunist Cossack leaders, including Kuban ataman Naumenko, Terek ataman Vdovenko, former Don ataman
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There was a political edge to the attacks on Macmillan, who represented the left-wing of the Conservative Party, the so-called "
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The Cost of a Reputation: Aldington versus Tolstoy : the Causes, Course and Consequences of the Notorious Libel Case
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partisans from the hills to “pass through alive” in the area, led the Italians to use the epithet “Barbarian Cossacks.”
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devoted to the story and based upon several books on the subject, but also in a programme in the BBC historical series,
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The British transported the Cossacks to a prison where they were handed over to the waiting Soviets. In the town of
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Thousands of Russians, many of them Cossacks, were transported at the height of armed hostilities in 1944 to
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and the Defence ministry had deprived Tolstoy of documents that had been helpful to him at this trial.
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The Last Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians by Britain and the United States
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Although repatriations mainly occurred in Europe, 154 Cossacks were repatriated to the Soviets from
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On 28 May 1945 the British transported 2,046 disarmed Cossack officers and generals—including the
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After four years of investigation, in October 1990 the Cowgill committee published its report,
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argued that there had been an "Establishment" conspiracy against Tolstoy, claiming that the
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by Charles Scribner, New York, and has been reissued in a Kindle edition under the title,
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In Lienz, Austria, there is an 18-gravestone cemetery commemorating the "Tragedy of the
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The Cossacks who remained in Russia endured more than a decade of continual repression,
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Union. In May 1945, the Trieste crisis almost caused an Anglo-Yugoslav war as Marshal
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Cossacks were included in the hundreds who were repatriated to the Soviet Union from
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ordered the Cossacks to leave Carnia and go north to Austria. There, near Lienz, the
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I–II
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would have slain us with truncheons, the British did it with their word of honour."
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Newland, Samuel, Cossacks in the German Army (Portland: Frank Cass, 1991) 112 - 121
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openly began employing Cossack émigrés for propaganda and administrative purposes.
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Several hundred Cossacks were repatriated to the Soviet Union from camps close to
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Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Émigré Theories.
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causing immense controversy. The architectural historian and interior designer
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in 1947. Some 100 Cossacks perished in resistance to forcible repatriations at
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formed a committee consisting of himself; a former diplomat and "Russia hand"
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Repatriation of anti-Soviet ethnic Russians and Ukrainians to the Soviet Union
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In May 1983, Tolstoy published an article "The Klagenfurt Conspiracy" in
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under assumed names and nationalities; many emigrated to the US per the
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agreeing to donate to a charity of Cowgill's choice, in this case the
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in an operation that also led to the sinking of the German battleship
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Some were executed immediately. High-ranking officers were tried in
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or had been born abroad, hence never holding Soviet citizenship.
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Rayment, Tim (1996-04-07). "The Massacre & The Ministers".
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publicly stated: "Harold Macmillan, he's a murderer you know".
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prison camps, where some were brutally worked to death. The
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hosts, forced cultural assimilation and repression of the
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(Translation by William Dritschilo of (1970) 636: 558: 2260:, Milton Park, Taylor & Francis 2000 p.240 2247:, Milton Park, Taylor & Francis 2000 p.250 1981:, Milton Park, Taylor & Francis 2000 p.243 1973: 1971: 1969: 1967: 1965: 1963: 1961: 1959: 1957: 1664:"Repatriation – The Dark Side of World War II" 3156:Aftermath of World War II in the Soviet Union 2859:Russian collaborationism with the Axis powers 2843: 2177: 2175: 2096: 2094: 2092: 2090: 1148:was a book privately printed and paid for by 451:to the Italian Alps, Italian partisans under 8: 2445:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 220-221 2234:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 221-222 1513:Mueggenberg, 243 – 244, 252 – 254, 276 - 283 1060:in Washington. 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Bond (played by 3135:National Alliance of Russian Solidarists 2964:30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS 2432:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 220 2414:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 229 2380: 2378: 2376: 2374: 2372: 2370: 2368: 2329:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 228 2307:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 225 2294:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 227 2278:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 226 2169:, New York: Random House, 2010 pages 221 1769:"Tristach: SS-Gedenkstein wird entfernt" 1368: 1366: 366: 2669:Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2205:, New York: Random House, 2010 page 222 2151:, New York: Random House, 2010 page 224 2138:, New York: Random House, 2010 page 223 2122:, New York: Random House, 2010 page 220 2034:. Harper & Row, 1974. pp. 259–260; 1523: 1521: 1519: 1331: 1095:Aftermath of War: Everyone Must Go Home 886:" for the Mediterranean, Field Marshal 1473:(Jefferson: McFarland, 2019) 170 – 189 1316:Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers 1046:The Repatriations from Austria in 1945 210:policies, fled abroad to countries in 3186:People extradited to the Soviet Union 3181:Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations 2747:Cossacks in the German Army 1941–1945 2701:. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 2443:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2430:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2412:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2385:Horne, .Alistair (22 November 1997). 2327:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2305:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2292:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2276:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2232:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2216:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2203:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2167:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2149:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2136:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 2120:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 1997:Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan 1726: 1724: 1683: 1681: 1495:(London: Macmillan, 1981) pp. 298–302 64:Fulfillment of the conditions of the 7: 2732:The Cossacks: An Illustrated History 2684:Jefferson: McFarland & Company; 1530:The Cossacks: An Illustrated History 1337: 1335: 3176:Post–World War II forced migrations 1662:Hornberger, Jacob G. (April 1995). 1123:In 1997, Booker published his book 940:Federation of Conservative Students 622:Fort Dix, New Jersey, United States 556:described the scene that occurred: 249:, deportation and, ultimately, the 233:the portioning of the lands of the 174:, deportation and, ultimately, the 2883:National Socialist Party of Russia 2589:Vuletić, Dominik (December 2007). 1935:"Russia From Stalin To Khrushchev" 1554:The American Occupation of Germany 1373:Chereshneff, Colonel W.V. (1952), 1240:boss Valentin Zukovsky (played by 878:magazine alleging a conspiracy by 83:45,000–50,000 Cossacks repatriated 14: 3171:History of the Cossacks in Russia 2553:Dizdar, Zdravko (December 2005). 1851:Ledeen, Michael A (1 June 2000). 1816: 1804: 956:a Conservative candidate for the 498:. Most Cossacks were sent to the 351:), and was forced to withdraw to 2816:Return to the scene of the crime 1792: 1532:. London, UK: Gerald Duckworth. 1417:Kazachestvo Istoriya Volnoy Rusi 1304:Russian Monument (Liechtenstein) 863:), for going unpublished in the 447:When the Allies progressed from 419:emigres who had fled during the 123:European theatre of World War II 2959:1st SS Special Regiment Waräger 1445:"Massacre of Cossacks at Lienz" 2949:Russian National People's Army 2535:The Minister and the Massacres 2478:"Goldeneye Valentine Zukovsky" 1690:The Minister and the Massacres 1081:. By contrast, the journalist 965:The Minister and the Massacres 902:The Minister and the Massacres 514:Soviet citizenship controversy 403:of the Nazis. Stalin obtained 301:First Cossack Cavalry Division 130:were subsequently sent to the 1: 3115:Eastern Front of World War II 2903:Russian People's Labour Party 2645:Великое Предательство, Том ІІ 2639:Naumenko, Gen. V. G. (2018). 2620:Naumenko, Gen. V. G. (2011). 1393:Великое Предательство, Том ІІ 1387:Naumenko, Gen. V. G. (2018). 1230:killed his wife, then himself 1052:among the personal papers of 797:(1964) by the British author 602:quotes a telegram by General 303:under the command of General 75:United Kingdom, United States 2939:1st Cossack Cavalry Division 2764:. Lagavulin: Topical Books; 2734:. London: Gerald Duckworth; 1855:. AEI Online. Archived from 1853:"It Didn't Start with Elian" 1253:episode "The Russian House". 363:Yalta and Tehran Conferences 277:invasion of the Soviet Union 91:repatriation of the Cossacks 20:Repatriation of the Cossacks 2944:First Russian National Army 2934:XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps 2665:Catherine Andreyev (1987). 2339:Roth, Andrew (2000-12-09). 1731:Mueggenberg, Brent (2020). 1183:Cossack cemetery in Peggetz 932:European Economic Community 502:in far northern Russia and 467:Generals Pyotr Krasnov and 395:and British Prime Minister 359:, at the close of the war. 325:XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps 299:were consolidated into the 3209: 2745:Samuel J. Newland (1991). 2680:Brent Mueggenberg (2019). 1419:. Algorithm Expo, Moscow. 1415:Shambarov, Valery (2007). 224:Russian All-Military Union 176:Soviet famine of 1930–1933 3107: 3067:Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt 2716:. London: Jonathan Cape; 2456:Great Betrayal, Volume 2, 2084:, Volume 38, 2010 p.45-47 1947:Bethell, Nicholas (1974) 1688:Tolstoy, Nikolai (1986). 1377:, Rodina Society Archives 1264:Aftermath of World War II 1152:, an admirer of Tolstoy. 803:European Liberation Front 676:Liverpool, United Kingdom 656:Rimini and Bologna, Italy 387:, signed by US President 121:. Towards the end of the 31:aftermath of World War II 24: 2954:Russian Protective Corps 2762:The cost of a reputation 2712:Nikolai Tolstoy (1981). 2641:Great Betrayal. Volume 2 2258:Investigative Journalism 2245:Investigative Journalism 2030:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: 1979:Investigative Journalism 1951:, Basic Books, New York. 1641:Great Betrayal, Volume 2 1628:Great Betrayal, Volume 2 1389:Great Betrayal. 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Index

Operation Keelhaul
aftermath of World War II
Allied-occupied Austria
Lienz
Yalta Conference
Cossacks
Russians
Ukrainians
Soviet Union
Nazi Germany
World War II
European theatre of World War II
Red Army
Gulag
repatriations
Yalta Conference
Joseph Stalin
Russian Civil War
Eastern Front
Terek
Ural
Semirechye
Russian Orthodox Church
Soviet famine of 1930–1933
Russian Civil War
White movement
Red Army
reprisals
Bolsheviks
de-Cossackization

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