I was in the street level Bon Marche Food Court in Paris a few years ago when a Communist led protest group went by. A number of marchers came in and stuffed packaged food items under their coats and left. Store employees ignored what was going on. Obviously there would be retribution if they stopped anyone.
It’s amusing that Stalin exterminated people in the Ukraine for taking food when he demanded they send all the food produced there be shipped to other parts of Russia. He was bringing them into submission because Lenin had let them have more freedom than the rest of the Soviet state in exchange for the food they produced. The Ukraine openly greeted the Nazis when they invaded and Hitler made a big mistake in treating them like the rest of the Russians. He could have had a base of support to help him later when the Red Army was pushing him back.
“The Ukraine openly greeted the Nazis when they invaded and Hitler made a big mistake in treating them like the rest of the Russians. He could have had a base of support to help him later when the Red Army was pushing him back.”
When the wall came down and Soviet files were opened they admitted they deliberately sent agents behind the lines to provoke Axis retribution against Ukrainians; while the Axis fell for it hook, line, and sinker, it isn’t as cut & dry as the media now portrays those events (Nazis bullying Ukrainians because of racial ideology).