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"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

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Union. Less than half- 1750 - <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> refugees <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union wanted<br />

returned were eventually given political asylum in Sweden.<br />

It was an irony <strong>of</strong> fate that Stalin had allowed <strong>the</strong> NKVD to co-operate<br />

and share <strong>the</strong>ir experiences with <strong>the</strong> Gestapo. The NKVD and <strong>the</strong> Gestapo<br />

even executed people toge<strong>the</strong>r. The historian Nikolai Tolstoy also<br />

revealed those pre-war actions.<br />

Foreign Slaves in <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union<br />

Until recently, it has been concealed from <strong>the</strong> public that <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union<br />

also used hundreds <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> foreign slaves for various rebuilding<br />

projects after <strong>the</strong> Second World War. Millions <strong>of</strong> new slaves were needed.<br />

That was why new slave camps for foreigners were built with <strong>the</strong> silent<br />

approval <strong>of</strong> Western leaders. A revealing film about <strong>the</strong>se slaves was<br />

released in France in 1995 "Foreign Slaves in <strong>the</strong> GULAG".<br />

Whilst <strong>the</strong> West celebrated <strong>the</strong> victory, an order came from Moscow to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Soviet zone in Germany, commanding <strong>the</strong> NKVD and Smersh (Death<br />

to <strong>the</strong> spies!) to imprison any foreigners in <strong>the</strong> zone. Among those arrested<br />

were Italians, Frenchmen, Poles and o<strong>the</strong>rs who had worked in <strong>the</strong><br />

German war industry, and foreign (including many Russian) refugees.<br />

Many allied prisoners <strong>of</strong> war, who had been held in German prison camps,<br />

also became Soviet slaves. Of course, many German prisoners <strong>of</strong> war were<br />

also enslaved. In this way, hundreds <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> innocent foreigners<br />

were captured during a short period <strong>of</strong> time. Western governments<br />

declared those people "missing" or "deserted". They wanted to conceal <strong>the</strong><br />

real circumstances from <strong>the</strong> public.<br />

An American citizen, John Noble, was among those captured in<br />

Dresden on <strong>the</strong> 5th <strong>of</strong> July 1945. The fact that he had Swiss diplomatic<br />

immunity did not save him or his family. The Gestapo had held his family<br />

under house arrest during <strong>the</strong> war and John had been waiting eagerly for<br />

<strong>the</strong> Soviet "liberators". He was quickly disillusioned, however, since <strong>the</strong><br />

Red soldiers began murdering, raping and looting in Dresden and in o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

towns. The American authorities did not listen to John Noble's cry for<br />

help. In <strong>the</strong> beginning he sat with o<strong>the</strong>r foreigners, doctors, lawyers and<br />

businessmen and <strong>the</strong>ir wives and children, in a prison where all <strong>the</strong><br />

prisoners were tortured. Some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m were shot in <strong>the</strong> neck because <strong>the</strong>y<br />

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