The Ukrainians keep their anti-communist Bandera resistance movement going into the mid-1950s. The anti-communist resistance in the Baltic states (less well known!) was such that each ‘republic’ had a NKVD\KGB security division stationed in them all the way up to the collapse of the USSR. When they regained their independence their SS veterans paraded in their independence parades up until they were too old to parade.
People throw ‘Nazi Nazi’ around indiscriminately in regard to Ukraine and I guess the Baltic states. People here just can’t imagine the hate generated by Stalinist\Soviet oppression that went on there. A hate that was such where the reasoning was “If I have to kill Jews (or Poles!) to kill Russians I’ll kill Jews (or Poles!) to kill Russians!”. That’s the choices the WWII generation of the Baltic States & Ukraine faced. May you never face such a choice. Not excusing it just acknowledging it.
The real world and real history doesn’t break out along clear fault lines, lots of mist & gray - the enemy of my enemy is my friend .. for now, is more the case, more true than one would like to believe!
Yes and from what I have read the Poles never saw the Russians as liberators. There was little difference between a Nazi concentration camp or being sent to Siberia.