WWII was a complete ****show in Europe. It was the largest mass slaughter of human beings in history. So if after almost 20 years of being starved, sent to gulags, and hung in the streets by Stalin and his goons the Ukrainians looked on the Nazis as liberators I don’t really blame them much.
I can’t imagine the horrors they’d endured. And people over there have some very, very long memories. My Ukrainian friends talk about The Holdomor like it happened last year. There’s a Ukrainian Orthodox Church the next town over with a huge memorial to it.
Great pirogies for sale there on weekends btw. Delicious.
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Do they talk much about Babi Yar?
There were more Ukrainian executioners than Germans.
How about Korosciatyn, Huta Pieniacka, Khatyn, and the other massacres of Polish villagers in Galicia and western Ukraine?
The Ukrainian nazi units that perpetrated terror on Jews, Poles, “partisans” that supported Russia vs nazi Germans, and their own ethnically impure neighbors are still celebrated today.
But yes, when the Germans were defeated, by the Soviets, the Uke ultranationalist/nazis avoided war crimes tribunals by turning their purification drive on the communists, which endeared them to the Western strategists looking to continue war against the Red menace and encouraged continued Uke internal purges and killing of “ collaborators”