Given enough speed and a long enough ramp, this could have been among the first "V" weapons to hit London.
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Thanks for posting this. My Grandfather on my father's side was an officer in the White Russian Army. The communists captured and killed off his family in 1921.. He fled to Canada with little more than the clothes on his back and little in the way of Government identification papers. Upon his arrival, he was placed in a concentration camp outside of Saskatoon for a spell until it was proven he was not a communist 'instigator'. He started a new life here (he had my father when he was 50!) and was proud to call Canada his home.
The sad part about this is that the subject of domestic political concentration camps is not addressed by the Canadian education system. If it were not through my own initiative to tell my son the trials and tribulations his ancestors went through to establish a new life and promising future in Canada, he would in all likelihood never know or suspect that things like that occurred here in Canada.
Brookwood
I saw a doc on an internment camp in Quebec for Slavs. Many died there. A descendant of a survivor rocked the boat on it and an effort was made to locate the cemetery. There had been a small town of them one time, but after the war, all of it was let go and the jungle took over. The Quebec government was embarrassed by the whole thing and wanted to pretend that it never happened.
Sir, you are very welcome.
Brookwood, My Great Grandfather was a Prussian Liaison Officer to Czar Nicholas and the White Russian Army. His story is similar to your Grandfather's but he managed to get his family out. He didn't end up in a detention camp because he was well enough known and at the time well heeled. He insisted until the day he died that the communists would fail and refused to convert his Czarist Rubles to another currency. Of course by 1926 those Rubles were worthless. He had a bunch of them in storage and he had to pay to keep them safe. In 1929 the storage company delivered them in wooden crates on a dump truck.
Other than a few kept for souvenirs the rest were used for all sorts of things.
Other than a few kept for souvenirs the rest were used for all sorts of things.
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My maternal grandfather was an artillery spotter against the Germans in the great war.
He was very grateful to the strapping young lads who would quickly winch him and his balloon down whenever a Fokker drew near.
He was very grateful to the strapping young lads who would quickly winch him and his balloon down whenever a Fokker drew near.
All I have from my Grandfather's service is a photograph of him in an Officer's uniform, a few patriotic 'White Russian' 78 records and a 1914 Princess Mary gift box. Family lore says he received it as a thank you from a 'Tommy' who's life he saved.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war-princess-mary-gift-box
He too had absolutely no love for the communists. He was a quiet man who was haunted by his experiences and never spoke of them to his immediate family, but he opened up to my maternal Grandfather who also had passionate feelings against communists - he was a fallschirmjager in the Luftwaffe during WW2 (albeit it in Afrika and Italy), his wife was subject to the brutality of the Soviet troops who fought into Berlin, they barely survived the post-war Berlin blockade and left with his family to start a new life in Canada when tensions escalated shortly before the Wall went up. I was just a twinkle in my parent's eyes at that time, but I would dearly love to have been privy to their discussions.
Incidentally, long after he passed away (in 1981), I found a box with some of his papers in it and low and behold there was some Czarist era currency in there. I guess he felt the same as your Great Grandfather.
Thanks for sharing,
Brookwood
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Dark Alley Dan
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Somewhat related - the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force of 1918/19:
A hundred years ago now, and all of them long gone. I hope their families remember them. A few are buried in Churkin Naval Cemetery in Vladivostok.
A hundred years ago now, and all of them long gone. I hope their families remember them. A few are buried in Churkin Naval Cemetery in Vladivostok.
They actually teach now about concentration camps, at least in public schools in BC and in Catholic schools in ON for sure.
Dark Alley Dan
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Speaking of Canadian camps, here are some of Uncle Adolph's Happy Gang enjoying the sun in Lethbridge, Alta.:
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gewehr76
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These are not as lucky
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Dark Alley Dan
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Luftwaffe guys walking East?
Yep, pretty unfortunate. I had a landlord who'd baked bread for the German army in the east. An army baker. This obvious Hitlerite and Enemy of the People was captured in 1945 and didn't get home again until that last batch the Russians released in 1955. He could not have been a nicer man when I knew him.
Still, it was no worse treatment than what the Germans inflicted on Soviet POWs.
Yep, pretty unfortunate. I had a landlord who'd baked bread for the German army in the east. An army baker. This obvious Hitlerite and Enemy of the People was captured in 1945 and didn't get home again until that last batch the Russians released in 1955. He could not have been a nicer man when I knew him.
Still, it was no worse treatment than what the Germans inflicted on Soviet POWs.
