Yes and that’s how they justified their actions working alongside Einsatzgruppen to slaughter 1 to 1.5 million Jews who were their fellow countrymen.
Jews the Ukrainians either killed themselves or helped find and murdered en masses in towns where the Jews lived
Ukrainian Jews needn’t be shipped back to Poland or Germany for liquidation.
You could simply kill families by the village on the spot and dump in mass graves and the Ukrainians had little to no truck with that because they associated Jews with Bolshies and the Holodomar
Imagine an American politician with say George Lincoln Rockwell pic in his office and his tags signifying Adolf Hitler and Heil Hitler ....
The Ukraine no question has a Nazi element that is tolerated ....Right Sector and Azov are but two....there are more
I’ll give him credit...he took the right deal with a division bearing down on his town
Btw....Uke behavior in WWII
The Lithuanians were worse towards Jews
Genocide is awful now matter who is perpetrating it, but after close to 10 million Ukrainians were murdered by Russian communists it is not surprising that some Ukrainians temporarily allied themselves with the Nazi invaders to repel the Russians.
Sadly the Russian revolution, Stalin, and WW2 resulted in millions of dead people in Ukraine as Ukrainians fought Russians, Germans, and other Ukrainians, and were subject to genocide from both the Russians and the Germans.
Hearing the Russians talk about anti-Semitism as something they are trying to end is ridiculous. They persecuted and imprisoned Jews for years, and Putin's KGB was at the heart of that effort.