Posted on 08/02/2022 7:30:22 AM PDT by PGR88
This should have been a Monty Python sketch, along the lines of the “Dead Parrot” classic.
Germany’s leading center-right newspaper Die Welt posted a banner headline at the top of its page last Friday evening just before Shabbat came in here in New York: “[Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrej] Melnyk’s statement trivializes the Holocaust.” In a radio interview last week, Melnyk compared Ukrainian Nazi leader Stephan Bandera to Robin Hood and vehemently denied—in the face of massive historical documentation—that Bandera had helped to murder 800,000 Ukrainian Jews during World War II.” The Banderites also helped to murder between 40,000 and 100,000 Poles. Poland’s embassy to Berlin also denounced Melnyk’s statement.
Yet there was barely a peep in the American press—I found a single passing mention in the Washington Post and nothing elsewhere—and not a word from any American Jewish organization.
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So does America. It’s called the Democrat Party here.
“Yes, in Ukraine we have Nazis!!, but our Nazis are not really, really bad like Russian Nazis!!!”
-ZEEPER Dude, waiting for a new Daily Mail article
Oh, please. All the bad Nazis there turned into GOOD Nazis on February 24th, 2022.
Get with it, man.
Yeah but the typical Ukrey backers on FR will say “yeah, but they are fighting for freedom! Nazis need freedom too!’
BS. Everyone knows that all Ukrainians are angels sent directly to earth from God. They are the only country in the world where the politicians are so pure of heart that they can never be questioned.
Nazis? That’s why the Brandon administration is falling all over itself to help them in the Ukraine. The RATS are trying to rebuild Naziism and Communism. They think they can make them work here in the U.S. because the US RATS are “good people.”
And Putin is a Communist, and says that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst thing ever and its his mission to reunify it.
It has a corruption and George Soros problem as well. There are no angels in this war.
There were no "good" options for Ukraine in WWII.
It says something about how desperate people are to paint the Ukrainians with Putin's propaganda that they have to talk about what people did in the 1940s and claim that as a result there is a problem today.
But if the behavior of the people in a nation in the 1940s defines them today then we have to apply that thinking to every nation. So Germany is a nation of fascist murderers, France is their accomplice, and therefore full of Nazis, Belgium is accepting of Nazi ideas, Italy is full on fascist, and the USA is a nation full of racists and anti-Jewish bigots who would not allow fleeing Jews to come to our nation.
The Russians themselves were allies with Hitler and murdered millions of Ukrainians, including Jewish Ukrainians before the second world war.
Trying to blame people today for what people did years ago is foolish and dumb.
Corruption is very attractive to corrupt people. Ukraine is a very corrupt nation.
Ask yourself why US politicians (both parties by the way) and our state department and CIA seem so obsessed with such a corrupt nation.......
I doubt I will live long enough to find out 1/10th of what was done “in our name” in the Ukraine. I have no idea how much it contributed to the conflict, but I am certain it was part of the reason it happened.
I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people AND the Russian conscripts who don’t even know where they are on a map.
What a mess.
There were no “good” options for Ukraine in WWII.
My German mother feared the Russians much more than the Nazis.
The Ukrainians were fighting for their lives before and during World War II. The Russian communists had already killed millions of Ukrainians, and were doing then what they are doing again now.
When Bandera was not sitting in a Nazi concentration camp he was leading efforts to free Ukraine from the nations attacking it. He may have allied with the Nazis to some extent, but he also saved Jews from the Nazis. The Nazis did not consider him to be on their side.
The KGB murdered him after the war in another example of Russian terrorism.
Ukraine’s Nazi problem is that a country acting a lot like the Nazi’s has invaded their territory.
People are very selective in their assessment of Russia and WWII. The Russian military did the majority of damage to Germany (thanks in large part to Hitler being a tactical moron), but they were perfectly happy to work hand in hand with the Nazi’s in Eastern Europe when it served their expansionist interests prior to Hitler’s invasion.
Stalin behaved very similar to Hitler in the name of Communism. Stalin was also a moron but he had far more peasants than Hitler - a real advantage on the Eastern Front.
Somehow a wartime propaganda pamphlet allegedly from a rebel leader who was himself a victim of the Nazis, and was imprisoned by the Nazis has more import than the actions of the French government.
Sounds like deflection to me.
Of course Ukraine has a Nazi problem. Azov’s founder, Andriy Biletsky, stated it was Ukraine’s mission to “Lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against semite-led subhumans.”[1]
Olena Semenyaka, spokeswoman and head of Azov’s international outreach office, has articulated a vision in which Azov takes over Ukraine. In remarks to the Nordic Resistance Movement, Semenyaka said “We are on the march to power and we will either have to get there by parliament or by other means”.[4] In interviews with The Guardian in 2014, members of the Azov Battalion openly commented on aspirational beliefs of marching on Kyiv when the fighting with Russian forces and separatists was over. The same interviews revealed a common view amongst Azov’s members that Ukraine “needs a strong dictator to come to power who could shed plenty of blood but unite the nation in the process”.
But, Putin’s stated goal of de-nazifying Ukraine seems to be picking up steam in the new recently begun Russian offensive after the “operational pause.” Yesterday was particularly successful.
In the settlements of Merefa and Chuguev, Kharkiv region, as a result of high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces , up to 500 nationalists of the 92nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a large amount of military equipment were eliminated.
More than 130 nationalists were killed as a result of the fire destruction of the combat positions of the 16th battalion of the 58th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artemovsk region . The remaining servicemen of the battalion, numbering up to 70 people, hastily left their positions and departed for Konotop , Sumy region, where they were disarmed and recognized as deserters.
The high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a blow to the point of temporary deployment: the Ukrainian “Foreign Legion” near the city of Nikolaev. Up to 250 mercenaries and more than 20 units of military equipment were destroyed .
Idaho has a Nazi problem.
Ukraine has a 300 year old Russia problem.
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