Britain is responsible for UK territory. The deaths of Soviet POWs was deliberately ignored, belittled and downplayed as the US and UK rolled-out the Cold War strategy that centred around equating Nazi Germany with the USSR (their former ally). Like all good mentally ill narratives, it carries the danger of convincing the weak-minded and the easily led that its central core of manic disinformation is correct - simply because it feels like it should be. The Soviets had to watch powerless whilst Churchill had 10,000 SS Ukrainian Catholics quietly resettled in Scotland at the behest of the Pope - because they were good Catholics! Good Catholics who had committed thousands of atrocities in the USSR! Meanwhile, the Occupying Nazi Germans worked hundreds, if not thousands, of Soviet POWs to death in the Labour Camp established on Alderney. The report, whilst blaming the USSR and absolving the UK government of all guilt, mentions nothing of the well-reported (local) British collaboration the Nazi Germans benefitted.
The ignorance, hypocrisy and lying is breathtaking - but typical of an unelected and out of touch Tory Junta that is soon to be ousted. Eric Pickles, of course, is a notorious Tory crook - whilst the academic involved is a ventriloquist's dummy - spouting disinformation that matches Anthony Beevor in its lack of objectivity, coherency and sheer dishonesty. Still, whilst the USSR recovered from the devastation and the 41 million casualties it suffered - Alderney was probably a distant irrelevance. The UK should have kept its own house in order - but that would have upset the US and its developing anti-Soviet policy. And herein lies the truth ignored by the unelected Tory Junta, corrupt UK academics and the Imperial War Museum! This unelected Tory Junta paid a group of "Yes" men to formulate the "required" outcome. Long Live the USSR and Long Live Russia!