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		vegedor on Nov 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is ... Wait a second, who was send to Gulags (in Siberia, I suppose)?

venomsnake on Nov 3, 2014 [–]

Little mentioned fact is that after WWII the soviets took almost 1M people laborers from Germany to USSR. I think some of them returned.

The allies also used a lot of them. Not their brightest hour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_W...

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