I can make an honorable case for a Latvian fighting either against Germany or against USSR. Opposing what he saw as the greater evil. Can’t see how anybody could honorably fight FOR either side.
We shouldn’t forget USA enthusiastically fought alongside and supported the Soviets, seeing them (accurately, IMO) as the lesser of two weevils.
“We shouldn’t forget USA enthusiastically fought alongside and supported the Soviets, seeing them (accurately, IMO) as the lesser of two weevils.”
Most Europeans who dealt up close & personal with the Soviets seemed to disagree; they were between a rock and a hard place, and many Soviet ciitizens greeted the Nazis as liberators.
We probably should have listened to them.