作者从1933年造成330万人死亡的乌克兰饥荒写起,这次饥荒紧随斯大林的残酷而毁灭性的集体化运动。然后又写到25万余苏联公民,主要是波兰人,在 1937-38年的大清洗中被杀害,只因为他们的种族。有时内务人民委员会只在电话号码簿上挑一些发音像是波兰人的名字,或是成批逮捕去波兰教堂礼拜的人。
Some stories remained untold because they were inconvenient. About as many people diedin the German bombing of Warsaw in 1939 as in the allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. Post-war Poland was in no state to gain recognition for that. The Nazi-Soviet alliance of August1939 was cemented in blood, Stalin said approvingly. Few wanted to remember that twoyears later, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. TheWestern allies did little to stop the Holocaust. Few wanted reminding that the onlygovernment that took direct action to help the Jews was the Polish one: seven of the firsteight operations conducted in Warsaw by the underground Polish Home Army were in supportof the ghetto uprising.
有些故事仍然未见天日,因为不便讲出。1939年德国对华沙的轰炸造成的死亡人数和盟军在1945年轰炸德累斯顿造成的死亡人数不相上下。这一牺牲,战后的波兰从未正式获得承认。纳粹和苏联在1939年8月的结盟是 鲜血凝成的,斯大林赞许地说道。没几个人愿意记起,两年后,德国就发动巴巴罗萨计划入侵苏联。西方盟国对大屠杀几乎未加阻止。没几个人愿意提起,唯一一个对犹太人直接给予帮助的政府恰恰是波兰政府。在地下的波兰国民军所组织的前八次行动中,有七次是为了支持犹太区的起义。
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