Posted on 05/04/2021 8:12:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Interesting, 10% of the SS Galician division were Jews— wow, how they must have been pushed into joining.
And later the Soviets purged all of them, Jews, Poles and Belarusans- which is not surprising when looking at the spectrum of Socialism to Communism being ALL Leftist and thus anti-Jews, anti-Poles and anti-Belarus (anything that stood in the way of the re-control of that area of the Ukraine under Soviet Russia.
A point usually overlooked about the Nazi Germans-— they were Socialists who were, on the Socialist Leftist spectrum in competition with the majority of post WWI out of work labor in Weimar, who were the German Communist Party (leftover from the Bolsheviks whom the Kaiser sponsored, with Lenin, who removed the Romanovs and the Kerensky Socialist run Duma in Russia— to create Lenin/Stalin Soviets).
So, the Socialist Nazis who were welcomed in the Ukraine vs. the Holodomor monsters of Stalin/NKVD etc.— recruited Jews, Poles Belarusans to fight the Communist Soviet Russians, and the Nazis lost, and the Soviets wiped out all who were left and also got Churchill and Stalin to “give up” Allied prisoners which included the Anti-Communist Don Cossacks who had joined the nazis. Done at Yalta— American witnesses to this deliberate tragedy, escorted the POWs to the Russian border where they were immediately executed, in sight of the Americans— Don Cossack White Russian leaders- cavalry Generals Pyotr Krasnov and Andrei Shkuro were executed.
Documented well as the Cossack Betrayal, and by the author Nikolai Tolstoy in “Victims of Yalta”— and done by FDR and Churchill to “not offend and to keep peace with Stalin”-— who was already working on “entering the war” against Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Cossacks_after_World_War_II#cite_note-12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy
The Ukraine
Lithuania
Baltics in general
It’s complicated ....the Russian and German invasions and Holocaust intersection
It was a seething pool of resentment and counter resentments and reprisals
A scenario where the invading Germans had supporters especially in Lithuania
I’m no professor but I’ve read and watched reels on the period and it was ghastly ...the hatred between various communist and fascist supporting groups and the reprisals ....which were just ...whew....unprecedented in the modern era
Often carried out by the citizenry...on one another with either Soviets or nazis watching and encouraging
When the pro Germans in Lithuania were purging pro Soviets and Jews ...which Jews fairly or not were accused of being allied with...it was so personally brutal ...even the SS reeled them in. Imagine that
There are forests in Lithuania I’d fear to camp at night...so much personal brutality went on in them...by common townspeople on their neighbors ...often with just farm implements and firewood
Like Rwanda
That fascism still has supporters in Eastern Europe is no shock ...they were seen as preferable to The Bear
Plus Germanic Prussian peoples arced bigley into that area
Germans were seen by some as preferable to commies
And lots of ethnic Germanic ties all over northern Eastern Europe
It’s that simple
Yet complicated
Uke today is I think around 30-40% somewhat ethnic or leans Russian
The eastern third is highly Russian
Many people speak both...
Which are related
I think Ukes can understand Russian better than vice versa
The highly ethnic part of Ukraine should be given some autonomy ...they are no question Russian favoring...
YOU said they were at 10% FRiend. That’s my source, read your post— which have not questioned as to veracity.
Not surprised, because the Nazis had collaborators from a whole lot of minorities they were sending to death camps. Essential in the “banking” of the stolen wealth were intermediaries who aided the Nazis (got stuff to Swiss banks— wonder how that worked ever? The Swiss Bankers were in partnership, and several have finally had to pay up- even though there are billions in stolen wealth still in numbered accounts held by whom?). Take a look at the very proud George Soros(”hey, I was a kid, and my dad got a nazi officer to “adopt” me) of his THEFT of his own culture’s wealth and seeing off the owners to the death camps. That’s a very “special” kind of psychopath. The Hungarians (who the EU clowns call Nazis— how ridiculous) have a WARRANT for any Soros, but particularly, Georgie boy to be placed on trial for crimes against Humanity— against Hungarian jews.
It was not Communist propaganda. One can understand an emotional response to the reality of jewish, polish, belarusan/soviet controlled, and ethnic Ukrainians collaborating with Nazis vs. the hated Stalinist NKVD. The White Russian survivors/Cossacks were glad to kill Soviets. Don’t need to be “set straight”.
It has taken two generations plus to expose this wealth and its source from collaborators. Today, one can find descendants of Vichy collaborators, quite wealthy and quite indignant for being exposed as Nazi collaborators— the point of fact in France anyway being that a large part of French Resistance (aided by OSS and UK handlers who were in turn being “run” by Soviet agents many cases. This is all known— now. See: Kim Philby).
Vichy France is still politically in control through the vast union/civil service rackets they ran during the war- helping the (and also- killing off, shipping off French jews). Today’s Lefitst “wokes” are filled with anti-semitics of every stripe— the Communist AntiFA and the BLM are chock full.
Check the Kremlin records. And uh, Robert Conquest’s many excellent works.
“There are few truly pacifist cultures”
Probably because pacifism is an invitation to be slaughtered by the culture next door which isn’t.
Pacifism is moral cowardice cloaked in preening self righteousness.
L
Interesting this negative story about Ukraine would come out as Putin prepares to invade.
That is extremely well put lurker
Thanks.
L
After what Stalin did to the Ukraine, both before and after WW2, it makes sense that they would hate Communists more than they would Nazis.
The Holodomor, Stalin's terror-famine, killed 3.9 million Ukrainians, about 13 percent of the population.
The ethnic Germans in Ukraine still had relatives in Germany, who heard about Communist atrocities, and thus became willing to support ANYONE who was willing to stop the Communists from coming to power in Germany. (Which nearly happened, read about the Spartacist uprising of 1919 ).
Indeed
My biz lawyer is Uke from Donetsk area
Mom is Russian ethnic
Dad is Uke
He left came here learned English and got law degree from Villanova
And married a Russian ethnic Uke expat .....beautiful blonde...leggy thin buxom....ah
He says partition is all that will work....but even that’s problematics of course
Sources? Do your own research, and btw a lot of the sources would be second or third hand.
Put it this way FRiend— how do you think illegal drugs get into the United States, in the large quantities? There are clearly “bent” law enforcement who are paid off and or organizing as secretly as they can... the trans shipment. By comparison, in regard to the Nazi State’s goals and control of the society that was, nazis had lots of collaborators... lots of them and they did not exclude jews (secular/nonsecular or “ish”) or any other religionists/ethnic background. They co-opted anyone to the almighty nazi state and the apparat. Just as the Communists have and are doing now, and the apparently re-created neo Socialist Left of Europe (who luv them some Nazi— closeted from the public in layers of bureau-speak).
The State used.... everyone. It is a hard pill to swallow, and seek “other organizations” and people to have actuated the monsters WWII and post WWII. Soros being just one example.
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