Minsk was invaded by the Germans in 1941 and then re-invaded by the Soviets in 1944 with large bombing campaigns on both sides. Literally 85% of the city was flattened during the war with about 90,000 civilian casualties and close to half a million military casualties during that period, and that doesn’t even count the people killed by the Nazis in the ghetto.
Sounds like your grandmother is either telling stories or she was a tourist that didn’t spend much time there.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 hours ago
But she did not pretend it didn’t happen. Where are you getting that from? She just never saw it, or at least the full extent. She did see starved prisoners. She saw the furniture at the opera. Just because the killings happened in a part of the city she wasn’t allowed to visit doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
And propaganda was trying their darnedest to keep it that way for most people. Even high ranking officers were boasting about how they were just about to beat the Sowjets the day before they retook the city.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 17 hours ago
She is telling the same story that most Nazis told, so its not really that hard to grasp.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 16 hours ago
Whelp, guess that means we can be sure to find out about mass killings in El Salvador or Alligator Alcatraz or wherever right away because it will be so obvious.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 16 hours ago
You think they could shoot 5,000 people in the middle of your city in the middle of the day and you wouldn’t notice?