While Western pundits, especially mainstream media, line up to celebrate the Red Army’s victory over the Workers Reich on May 9 1945, the less wholesome facts are airbrushed off the news broadcasts and the Press.

The Soviet Union: On January 1, 1948, all financial payments to medals and medals to all demobilised military troops are cancelled in the USSR according to numerous offers of Soviet citizens.

The right of free travel for veterans awarded with combat medals is cancelled. The preferential payment procedure for housing is cancelled.

Studying was very expensive – back in 1940, Stalin introduced tuition fees in USSR’s high schools and universities.

Education in capital schools cost 200 rubles a year, and education in the institute cost 400 rubles in Moscow, Leningrad and the capitals of the Union Republics, and 300 in other cities (education fees will be cancelled only three years after Stalin’s death – in 1956). Besides, poor people were robbed by the confiscation of monetary reform of 1947.

About 10 million soldiers returned from the frontline with various forms of disabilities. Of them, 775 thousand with injuries to the head, 155 thousand with one eye, 54 thousand were blind, 3 million were one-armed, and 1.1 million without both arms.

Many of them were physically unable to work and had to take a nap.

In 1948, a decree ‘On the eviction of persons maliciously avoiding agricultural work and leading an antisocial parasitic lifestyle was adopted to combat poor ordinance bearers.’

The disabled heroes of the war began to be evicted from large cities.

In 1951, Stalin decided to radically solve the problem by instructing all disabled people of the war caught begging to relocate ‘voluntarily or forcibly’ in closed-type boarding schools.

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree assigning the Volgograd International Airport the historical name Stalingrad.

‘In order to perpetuate the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, I decree: to assign the Volgograd International Airport the historical name of ‘Stalingrad,’ the document says.

‘The victory over Nazi Germany was achieved through the economic power of the United States who, for reasons that defy logic, made the ultimate sacrifice to keep in power a regime as brutal as their Nazi enemy.’  ~ Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II. Albert L. Weeks. Lexington Books, New York, 2004.  TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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