Over the past six years, some 120,000 bodies of missing WWII soldiers were recovered by Russian volunteers dedicated to bringing lost fighters home. These groups of enthusiasts operate on land, and also at sea, looking for the wrecks of ships and submarines, to honor the crews’ memory. The RTD documentary Finding the Fallen tells the story of their work.
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WNU Editor: They started doing a lot of work locating and identifying soldiers from my mother's home town of Vyazma. During the Second World War my mother and my grandparents hid in a cave during one of the biggest battles on the Russian front during the war. See here Battles of Vyazma and Bryansk (Wikipedia). She told me that from their vantage point they saw the bodies of Soviet soldiers everywhere, and no one collected them for a proper burial. They were just left there to rot.
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People just don't understand this, partly due to scale and partly because it is the past. But it is not the past to those who survived, to them it is probably just like yesterday. Until people realize it was an ordeal suffered by a people not a party (the Communist Party), then they will never understand it's significance.
Does Russia have grave registration?
The beginnings of the Quartermaster Graves Registration Service
Mortuary Affairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortuary_Affairs
https://www.army.mil/article/128693/the_beginnings_of_the_quartermaster_graves_registration_service
What did Russia do for their Korean, Vietnam War vets and Afghan Vets?
How about their Syrian and Venezuelan vets?
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