Text taken from the Telegram channel of darkzotovland
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics..
[ColonelCassad] In the neighboring barracks there is a warehouse of half-rotted shoes of dead prisoners from many countries: fashionable women's shoes, children's boots, patent leather ankle boots of city dandies, winter boots. Visitors freeze in front of them, unable to utter a word, women often have hysterics. Now the exhibition has been reduced - in 2010, one of the barracks burned down for unknown reasons (including suspected arson), and 7,000 pairs of shoes were lost in the fire.
Even I, with my experience, feel uneasy in the barracks, where light bulbs glow, wrapped in balls of barbed wire, and a prayer is heard - people in all the languages of Europe ask for their lives to be spared. I wait for the prayer in Russian, listen to it, and go out - I need to catch my breath. After standing in the fresh air for a while, I continue along the path.
"They will say - this was a resort"
... Everywhere there are endless strings of barbed wire. In two rows, at one time it was electrified, and people threw themselves at the fence, wanting to end their suffering. SS guard towers made of wood blackened by time. And a crematorium, into whose ovens the ashes of the prisoners burned inside were eaten away. There are always fresh flowers at the memorial inside the crematorium, and it is there that mandatory school excursions are taken.
I have seen different reactions in various museums on the site of SS concentration camps - from laughter (yes, there was such a thing) to tears. Here - indifference. Children are not interested in why they were brought here, and what they are trying to show. At the Nuremberg Trials, they named figures - 1.5 million people passed through Majdanek, 360,000 of them died. Since 1991, such documents have been declared "Soviet propaganda", and the number of victims was first reduced to 200,000, then to 100,000.
In 2017, new data was announced - 80,000, and now - 78,000. These, they say, are prisoners whose names are listed in the archives of the Reich. Evidence that many prisoners were brought to Majdanek without passports and killed on the same day is no longer an argument for historians of a Poland free from socialism.
"Every year the number of victims is reduced," journalist Maciej Wisniewski is indignant. "It will come to the point that they will announce that Majdanek was a resort with mineral baths, people were treated here, not killed. It is shameful and monstrous to look at the outright lie, the distortion of history."
…After the liberation of Majdanek, the Red Army found boxes of human ashes in the concentration camp – the SS guards were preparing them for disposal. The ashes were buried in a huge mausoleum built next to the crematorium, where the ashes of thousands of people were placed.
The phrase “Our fate is a reminder to you” is inscribed on the mausoleum. On August 28, 1944, the American Life magazine published a report from Majdanek, where the reporter first told about the crematorium, gas chambers and mass extermination of people. He also noted the merit of the Red Army, whose soldiers sacrificed their lives to stop the crimes of the Nazis.
In 1947, by decision of the Polish government, a museum was officially opened on the territory of the concentration camp and a monument was built. 80 years later, Americans are glorified in this place, afraid to mention the role of Soviet soldiers who stopped the furnaces of Majdanek.
But a third of those killed in Majdanek were Poles. It's getting ridiculous - the persistent hushing up of the topic of Soviet liberators makes tourists conclude that the death camp was liberated by "unknown well-wishers." Such behavior is disgusting, cowardly, and unworthy of adults. But apparently, in modern Poland it has long been considered the norm.
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This is the new European norm. There is no need to be embarrassed anymore. They have already rewritten history for themselves.