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To: Lurker
Why either Ukrainians or Russians would be Nazi sympathizers is a mystery. The Nazis regarded all Slavs as inferior, better than the Jews or Gypsies, but inferior to the Germanic and Western nationalities. The Nazi long term plan was to drive the Slavic peoples east of the Urals, or kill or enslave them.

There are Ukrainians who honor the memory of Stephen Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who allied with the Nazis. Bandera was anti-Communist and anti-Semitic, but was not a full fledged Nazi. The Azov Battalion has adapted the symbols of the Bandera movement.

71 posted on 05/20/2022 9:14:01 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
Stephen Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who allied with the Nazis

While Bandera reportedly did work some with the Nazi government, he also spent years in a Nazi concentration camp. It is easy to forget today that many people who were against the Nazi ideology also had to deal with the reality of the situation at the time. The entire government of France and some of its people would be one example, the governments of Belgium and Denmark another. Many citizens of Denmark joined causes supportive of the Nazis, and some fought in SS units.

Bandera was primarily an advocate for Ukrainian freedom and independence, and his relationship with the Nazis grew out of his work trying to free Ukraine from Stalin. The Russian communists hated him, and he was murdered by the KGB in 1959.

98 posted on 05/20/2022 9:49:09 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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