In 1939, Stalin did a deal with Hitler. He would get half of Poland, and other countries which aren’t important just now, although it was important for them, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and other countries, because he was also swiping parts of those other countries too.

Anyway Hitler attacked Russia in 1941, before Russia could attack Germany, and then all hell broke loose for the next 4 years in a titanic struggle between the Nazis and the Communists. Things didn’t go well for Hitler in that war, he ended up placing second, which isn’t a good place to end up in in a war.

By the end of World War II, Stalin had swept through all of eastern Europe and half of Germany. Stalin wanted to keep his ill-gotten gains in Poland from his deal with Hitler. So he kept the half of Poland that Hitler had promised him, and kicked out those unpleasant Poles. But Stalin was nothing if not a fair man, and so he helped the Poles by kicking the Germans of a equally large slab of their country, forcing them to leave land that they had lived on for hundreds of years.

Six million ethnic Germans were expelled from their homes – most of them women, children and elderly people. The Russians had killed all of the military age males, or sent them to their labour camps, where many were worked to death. Another six million Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia.

During all of these massive population movements maybe 500,000, possibly 1.5 million, Germans died. Lots of other Europeans died too in those horrific, apocalyptic times.

Stalin never had any problems brutally expelling people from lands they had lived on for hundreds of year. He also expelled all of the Tatars from their homelands in the Crimea. They had preferred the Nazis to the Communists, who had been brutal to them before the German invasion. The Russians also expelled enormous numbers of Germans who had been invited to permanently move to Russia by Catherine the Great in the 1700s – so they had lived in the Caucasus, on land given to them by Catherine 200 years before their expulsion. Most of the kulak peasants from Ukraine were expelled, millions of them died before they could be expelled and died in the godforsaken places they were sent to by Stalin. Greeks from the Russian side of the Russian border were also forcibly relocated. Stalin had no problems shifting millions of people from their homes to others parts of Russia, mostly Siberia.

You may be shocked to hear that if those many millions of people had a right to return where they originally came from Stalin never did anything about it.

But hypocrisy in the left is their standard stock in trade. And so it came to pass that on 11 December 1948 the United Nations passed the resolution acknowledging the right of return of the so-called Palestinian refugees to return to where they’d come from in what was now Israel, even if they’d only lived there for less than two years. I’ll discuss later than no North African or Middle Eastern Muslim country voted in favour of this resolution ....

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