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Don't ask about the NKVD's Polish Operation either (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gonna go ahead and say that

4000 were deported back to Germany, where they ended up in concentration camps

Counts as a "had them killed," so

Others, among them the elite of the later SED, e.g. Pieck, Ulbricht and Mielke, stayed in the USSR.

Are the only ones who are the

Not, all

Still correct, but damn son.

[โ€“] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

4000 were deported back to Germany, where they ended up in concentration camps

Counts as a "had them killed,"

Yes, likely to a large share. Stalin sent those members of the KPD to (almost) certain death, who weren't completely in line with the Stalinist ideology. If they belonged to the party elite, there were rightoff killed by the NKVD directly.