Did anyone watch the 3-hour special on the Discovery Channel the
other night called The Colour of War? It was a very well put together
WW2 documentary that used a lot of live (and colour) footage coupled
with first-hand accounts from diary entries and letters. Distressing
indeed - not only because of the horrors and magnitude of the war
depicted but, for this Kresy-Siberia member, because it focused
entirely on the Nazis and Japanese as being the bad guys (which of
course they were), and portrayed Stalin as an ally. Their only
mention of the Polish occupation was in reference to the Germans and
the atrocities carried out on the Polish Jews. Nothing was mentioned
about the Russian occupation (except only to say that Germany had
reneiged on its deal with Russia in carving up Poland - thus
inferring Russia had a right to be there in the first place), or the
deportations and deaths of Polish citizens.
How did our families' plights get to be such a hidden piece of
history?
Grace
