The ugly truth is, that a lot of central and Eastern European citizens “helped out” the Nazis during the war, apparently not realizing that they were very clearly next on Hitler’s list.
Just as bad, many central and Eastern European countries persecuted, pushed out,(and sometimes killed off) their German-speaking minorities after the war, even those who had fought WITH them. This went on for nearly the rest of the 1940’s.
But again, that’s Europe, and fortunately, my relatives left all of that baggage before the Russian Revolution.
True, but how can you calculate the pressure those people were under. One may be able to make accusations against individuals, living or dead, but to say the present day democratically elected sovereign government of a country that was at the time rent asunder by German AND Soviet invasions is a bridge too far and must be the result of an underlying agenda.