[kronos77]

Ah!, Free European Ukraine! /sarcasm....off.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Really tough call for the Ukrainian people back then.

Fight for Hitler or fight for Stalin.

Not exactly an easy choice.

[Psalm 144]

Looks modest compared to the 2013 celebration.
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-divided-over-wwii-legacy-100702056.html

[caligatrux]

But how do they feel about "the Negro" and slavery?

[ansel12]

I have a book on that Division buried somewhere in my collection.

[henkster]

Looking at the available photographs of 14th SS “Galicia” Division, their uniform seems to be a curious mix. Their officers’ caps bore the eagle gripping the swastika, and the “Death’s Head” emblem. The arm sleeves also bore the eagle/swasitka empblem. However, the collars did not display the SS runes common to the other Waffen SS units. Many of the divisional emblems were Ukrainian nationalist in appearance.

I’d say this division was primarily composed of western Ukrainian nationalists who despised the Soviet Union, and no doubt also had a strong anti-semitic character. A number of the same sort of people served the Germans in the death camps.

The division had a good combat record despite the Soviets belief they were a weak spot in the German line. Most of the division was destroyed along with the rest of German 13th Army Corps in the Brody pocket in July 1944.

[GeronL]

from Russian TV ?

Celebrating Lenin or Stalin any better?

[lodi90]

Ooops. I don’t think you want to play this game:

http://maidantranslations.com/2014/03/09/arrested-self-proclaimed-governor-gubarev-turned-out-to-be-an-inveterate-russian-nazi-photos/

[17th Miss Regt]

"This march is to commemorate the Galician division, which had nothing to do with the divisions of the Waffen SS.

The unit was the 14th SS Waffen Grenadier Division "Galizien". It was definitely a Waffen SS unit.

[1rudeboy]

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has Lenin on ice and on display.

[tcrlaf]

Good at using brutality to put down unarmed civilians,poorly armed partisans, and hunting down Jews, lousy in actual combat. At Brody, they broke and ran away.

Brutally put down the Slovak Uprising in 1945, burning some 90+ villages to the ground, and executing 5,000+ Partisans Jews and Roma, and sending thousands of others to concentration camps.

The divisions own German Commanders considered them brutish and unreliable.