they weren't forced, they voluntarily entered the train to avoid getting shot
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So the train's operators were actually protecting them.
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Fuckin A, I've been enjoying your posts over there, wtf is wrong with these people
Tankies love to brigade.
I actually generally prefer posting WW1-era stuff or oddities, but after getting a bunch of tankies bitching on photos I posted of the Romanian Revolution (Cake-Distributor was my favorite of those), I didn't want to change theme and make it seem like they could bitch their way into silence over Soviet-aligned atrocities.
Proceed
I'll post one or two more, but if the tankie howling dies down, I'll let it lie there. I don't want to turn HistoryPorn into a place just to hate on the Sovs, but I also don't want to contribute to it spreading a culture of denialism over Soviet atrocities.