Thursday, April 2, 2015

One of a thousand reasons why I am not a communist!

Czech pilots in Britain during WW11

During WW11 hundreds of Czech pilots fought for the British against the Nazis.

After the war, the communists seized power in Czechoslovakia and jailed all the pilots who returned home. They were afraid that the pilots would fight against them for freedom.

In 1951 Czechoslovak airmen were released from the labour camps. However, they remained outcasts for life. In 1991 they were rehabilitated (meaning that they could come back into society and treated as human beings) and recognised for their wartime service.

How sad for these men and their families! Why did Britain not do something to help them? Why did the world allow this? Those who think communism is the way forward - beware! Learn from history and don't repeat the same mistakes.