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    Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union is the narrative of POWs from the Italian Army in Russia (the ARMIR and CSIR) and of their fate in Stalin's...
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    German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the...
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    prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Finnish prisoners of war...
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    During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army, were starved and subjected to...
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  • of the Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union during World War II: POWs during the Winter War and the Continuation War. Before the Winter War (1939–1940)...
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    By the end of World War II, the number of Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union was significant. Up to 100,000 Romanian soldiers were disarmed...
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    Prussia for a brief period. Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Military history of Italy during World War II Arrigo Petacco (2015). L'armata...
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    Soviet prisoners of war in Finland during World War II were captured in two Soviet-Finnish conflicts of that period: the Winter War and the Continuation...
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  • As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war. Many of them were executed; 22...
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    participation on the Eastern Front Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union List of military equipment of Germany's allies on the Eastern front Light...
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    After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany. On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact...
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  • Italian prisoners of war in Australia were Italian soldiers captured by the British and Allied Forces in World War II and taken to Australia. On 10 June...
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    The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan...
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    The war crimes and crimes against humanity which were perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces from 1919 to 1991 include acts which were committed...
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    India and the United States. Those taken by the Soviet Union were treated harshly in work camps located in Siberia. Following the war the prisoners were repatriated...
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    German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan (German: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in Aserbaidschan) are former servicemen of Nazi Germany captured by Soviet troops...
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    earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate...
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    The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World...
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    The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the...
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    Soviet invasion of Japanese-occupied territory following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 7 August 1945. The Soviet Union and Mongolian People's...
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    prevent an Italian collapse in North Africa. As the war carried on and German and Japanese actions in 1941 led to the entry of the Soviet Union and United...
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    The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression...
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    on the topic of Second World War casualties. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World...
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    The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland. It encompassed...
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  • for about 60% of all Soviet POWs. The Arnsberg Forest massacre, in which 3 mass killings of 208 forced labourers and Prisoners of war, mostly Russian and...
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  • Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union WW II forced labor reparations Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet...
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    was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was...
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    Gulag (redirect from Soviet gulag)
    of political repression in the Soviet Union. The camps housed both ordinary criminals and political prisoners, a large number of whom were convicted by...
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  • Soviet Union and fought for Nazi Germany, were handed over by British and American forces to the Soviet Union after the conclusion of World War II. Towards...
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    prisoners of war. The Soviet Union was responsible for the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers, and the imprisonment or execution of hundreds of...
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