GOD how I love post-soviet communists.
Ignorance is bliss, amirite misko27? ;p
No. My Grandfather was a, important official in the communist government of Yugoslavia. As you may know, Yugoslavia was somewhat more sucessful the other Communist countries, and was a rare non-sattelite state, due to the Tito-Stalin Split. Now, no one mention anything following the death of Tito, cause my family left the country long befor ethe death of Tito, as I'll explain.
There is a NY times article saying all of this,
HereMy Grandfather was a communist officer, a POW in WWII, but he was also a brilliant economist. This eventually made him a important man in the governent. However he becamed disillusioned by the Communist Bueracrats, and there complete and utter corruption, not so much blatantly, but in terms of how things were run. He defected to the US, along with his family (and his wife, who was a
very important individual in the OZNA, Titos secret police). He became a economics professor, she a professor of comparitive literature.
Don't Mistake me for wide-eyed idealists who don't know of the gulags. I Know Exactly where i stand Damnit. And so did he. He didn't stand for Soviet Culture, he stood for Equality Damn It!
I have a suspicion that some of the more notorious stuff we do in DF would make the average Nazi blush. It's not like they ever attempted the mass breeding and slaughter of a specific group for the purposes of turning them into trinkets.
After the gassings, the Sonderkommando removed the corpses from the gas chamber, then extracted any gold teeth, and — to minimize the distinct smell of burning human hair — they shaved the corpses, before delivering them to the crematoria or to the fire pits, ... The Sonderkommando were responsible for burning the corpses, and stoking the fires, draining body fat, and turning over the "mountain of burning corpses" for even combustion and a peak fire-temperature. Commandant Höss was impressed by the diligence of the Sonderkommando prisoners, despite their being "well aware that . . . they, too, would meet exactly the same fate", yet always doing their jobs "in such a matter-of-course manner that they might, themselves, have been the exterminators". Höss
There was a entier industry of using Jewish body byproducts and selling them to German companies. Hair, teeth, etc. Watch Shindlers List.