Soviet Liberators

There is a horrible malevolvence that still lingers at Auschwitz (or Oswiecim as it is known in the original Polish). It was amazing to see people living in the town when I was there in 1994 and the camp that takes its name from it still very much preserved, full of tourists.

It's not that I aim to take away from the importance of remembering the anniversary of the day Soviet troops liberated prisoners from Auschwitz, it's just that I can't help feeling that one of the grossest injustices the Nazis plagued Europe with was to make everyone, if only for a short while, welcome the Soviets as liberators.