September 8, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/08/lessons-from-liberation-majdanek/
On July 22, the world should have
remembered the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Majdanek, the first of
Hitler’s infamous extermination camps to be captured and shut down. But of
course the brave Russian – and Ukrainian, Kazakh and other Soviet nationalities
– soldiers of the Red Army got no credit across the West for doing so.
It was one of the most important
liberations of World War II. On that day in 1944, troops of the Soviet Second
Tank Army liberated the notorious death camp near Lublin in Poland.
What happened at Majdanek dwarfed
the future discoveries of at Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and the other
well-publicized German concentration camps uncovered by the Western allies.
Probably close to a quarter of a million people were killed there. First
estimates at the time put the figure as high as 1.5 million. (Current
conventional estimates of 78,000 victims are simply ludicrously low, as
respected Polish historian Czeslaw Rajca has rightly pointed out)
The horrific facts of Majdanek were
reported around the world almost immediately. Alexander Werth of the British
Broadcasting Corporation, one of the greatest of Western war correspondents
sent graphic reports which ran on BBC News. But they were virtually totally
ignored in the West as
