marktwain ~ Nationalism, or perhaps loyalty to the tribe, is an exceedingly powerful force.
I'm guessing kearnyirish2 went to publik skool in the past 25 years or so. After 12 years of being taught that America is the only source of world evil, He/she/it would have absolutely no idea why someone would love their country.
If our education system had been openly imposed on us by a foreign power, we would have regarded it as an act of war...
Many supported the Axis until Stalin sent provocateurs behind the lines to kill German troops - and the resulting reprisals drove them back to Stalin. After the wall came down in 1989, Gorbachev admitted this.
What country would that be? Ukraine? Georgia? Armenia? Russia?
The USSR was a construct built on the backs of the occupied people; plenty of people in Ukraine and the Baltic states in particular were quite happy to see the Axis destroy the communists.