Babi Yar comes to mind.
Over 37,000 Jews massacred in two days."
The locked-in connection between Communists and Jews was hardwired into many brains of that time, based on harsh personal experiences, including the 1930s Holodomor in Ukraine in which Stalin's Communists killed an estimated 4 million Ukrainians.
- "The decision to murder all the Jews in Kyiv was made by the military governor Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch.
Sonderkommando 4a as the sub-unit of Einsatzgruppe C, along with the aid of the SD and Order Police battalions with the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police backed by the Wehrmacht, carried out the orders.[5][6][7]
Sonderkommando 4a and the 45th Battalion of the German Order Police conducted the shootings.
Servicemen of the 303rd Battalion of the German Order Police at this time guarded the outer perimeter of the execution site.[8][9][10][11]"
"The auxiliary police registered the Jews, conducted raids and guarded ghettos, loaded convoys to execution sites and cordoned them off.
There is a possibility that some 300 auxiliary policemen from Kyiv helped organize the massacre in Babi Yar.[25] "
jmacusa: "Again I'm sorry but hese two peoples have been at each other's throats long before there was a Untied States and I fail to see how giving Zelensky access to the public treasury is in our best interest."
I would not blame all Ukrainians for crimes committed by a few, any more than I'd blame... take your pick... Germans, Japanese, Russians, Chinese or Americans and on and on for crimes committed by a few of their (our) ancestors, unless they collectively try to defend those past crimes against humanity as somehow a good thing, as Vlad the Invader is now doing concerning Stalin.
The important reality today is that Vlad the Invader has deliberately and knowingly challenged the old "Pax Americana" since 1945 by invading his smaller neighbors, including Ukraine.
If such challenges go unanswered, they will soon enough result in ever more attacks on America's weakest and most vulnerable friends in the world, including Israel and Taiwan.
It's not just Ukraine, Vlad has also invaded Chechnya, Georgia and Moldova, while threatening virtually every country near Russia's borders, including:
- Azerbaijan (1990–1994);[1][2]
- Moldova (1992–present);
- Georgia (2004–present);
- Lithuania (2006);
- Estonia (2006–2007);
- Poland (2006–present);
- Belarus (2007);
- Ukraine (2014–present);
- Syria (2015–present);
- Turkey (2015–2016);
- Kazakhstan (2021–2022);[3] and
- Armenia (2022)[4] amongst others.[5]
Each victory he enjoys makes it that much more difficult to defeat him the next time.
So, it's not so much about Ukraine as it is about Russia and the new Axis of Evil, including Vlad the Invader, the CCP's Xi-snake, Little Kim and the Moola Mullahs.
If we accept defeat, we can well expect many more of them.