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To: Williams

Actually, his people were killing Jews.

It’s important to remember you make a deal with a devil - Hitler to kill a greater devil - Stalin. You’re not going to emerge clean! Cutting a deal with Hitler was the only way he was going to get back at Stalin and his minions for killing 8 to 12 million of his people. Killing Russian communists was his sole interest everything else no matter how horrible was in his mind necessary to further that aim. The West was in no position to help him give him another choice certainly not in 1941. He kept his insurgency going up into the mid-1950s. There are similar stories and “unsavory heroes” in the Baltic Republics. Baltic SS veterans used to parade on their independence days. There they aren’t viewed as we would view them. The USSR kept a whole division of KGB\internal security troops in the Baltic Republics up until the USSR fell.

Much of the anti-Russian hatred there and Ukraine you can still cut it with a knife and with good reason. There’s no analog here in our history.


27 posted on 07/16/2022 7:08:11 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

“Killing Russian communists was his sole interest “

Then why did Bandera’s OUN-B troops mass murder tens of thousands of Polish Civilians?

It seems your views aren’t consistent with History.

If Bandera’s troops were exclusively focused on fighting soviets, then why did they spend such huge energy and effort on mass murdering tens of thousands of poles?

Regular Ukrainian units didn’t do this, it was Bandera’s OUN-B units that did it.

Keep in mind, this wasn’t the only minorities in Ukraine that these troops massacred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia


30 posted on 07/16/2022 7:11:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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