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The Last Secret

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In May 1945, the British returned many thousands of Cossack prisoners-of-war to the Soviet Union. It was well known that the troops could expect only imprisonment or execution in their former homeland, and the British resorted to force and trickery to take the CossackstotheSoviet lines.
Nicholas Bethell describes the events of one camp In Austria through
Interviews with some of the British soldiers responsible for carrying out the agreement that Churchill signed with Stalin at Yalta.
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK (First broadcast in 1974) (A memorial to the repatriated victims of Yalta is to-be unveiled in London on Saturday)

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Unknown:
Nicholas Bethell
Producer:
Robert Cradock
Source: Radio Times

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