Doesn't it give you a warm fuzzy feeling all over to be providing people like that with advanced weapons??
Posted on 04/16/2015 9:15:57 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Seventy years after the end of the Holocaust, Ukraine’s parliament has extended official recognition to a nationalist militia that collaborated with the Germans during the Second World War.
According to a bill passed on Thursday, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, an ultra-nationalist faction that sought to establish an independent Ukrainian state, would be eligible for official government commemoration, according to the Kiev Post.
While the group, an offshoot of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, engaged in warfare against both the Soviet Union and the Nazis, it also collaborated with Germany and took part in actions against local Jews. The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned Ukraine’s recognition of the group as well as a second bill that equated Communist and Nazi crimes.
“The passage of a ban on Nazism and Communism equates the most genocidal regime in human history with the regime which liberated Auschwitz and helped end the reign of terror of the Third Reich,” said Wiesenthal Center director for Eastern European Affairs Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
“In the same spirit the decision to honor local Nazi collaborators and grant them special benefits turns Hitler’s henchmen into heroes despite their active and zealous participation in the mass murder of innocent Jews
These attempts to rewrite history, which are prevalent throughout post-Communist Eastern Europe, can never erase the crimes committed by Nazi collaborators in these countries, and only proves that they clearly lack the Western values which they claim to have embraced upon their transition to democracy,” he added.
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“Invalid hysteria doesn’t change facts.”
Okay, let’s look at some facts: 1941, Japan attacked us in teh Pacific and occupied some American territory and the Nazis declared war on us as well. Did we ally ourselves with filthy, genocidal communists in the Soviet Union to fight them?
Was that “invalid hysteria” or “facts”?
“If it weren’t for the coup,”
The Ukrainian parliament says it isn’t a coup. That’s a fact. You’re relying on “invalid hysteria”. The Ukrainian Parliament voted Yanukovich out.
“we wouldn’t be talking about ANY of this, and there would still be a Ukrainian flag flying over Crimea.”
Russia would just run all of Ukraine through Yanukovich instead. Ukraine has a right to be free or Russian control. Also, NOTHING in Kiev warranted a Russian occupation - ENTIRELY ILLEGAL AND AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW - of Crimea.
You’re excusing the Russians as if they did nothing wrong. You’re no better than those who excused every action of the USSR.
You can call Putin a thug if you want to (I wouldn’t), but he’s succeeding in everything he’s doing so far and, like a number of leaders of other states at present, is clearly top talent. WE are the only formerly advanced nation with a “community organizer(TM)” for a political leader...
Doesn't it give you a warm fuzzy feeling all over to be providing people like that with advanced weapons??
Placemark
Pretty clear now that Kiev has no intention of honoring the latest Minsk Agreement, and that the fighting will erupt again, very soon.
The Kiev assault with at least two battalions around Donetsk airport over the last couple of days adds even more fuel to the fires.
Seriously? Ukraine bans the communist party and the Simon Wiesenthal Center protests.
“The passage of a ban on Nazism and Communism equates the most genocidal regime in human history with the regime which liberated Auschwitz and helped end the reign of terror of the Third Reich,” said Wiesenthal Center director for Eastern European Affairs Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
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