Ukrainians preferred nazi rule over Soviet rule so nazi collaboration was fully justified
7 million Ukrainians fought in the Red Army, hundreds of thousands fought as partisans. The highest scoring Allied ace was Ukrainian! The most successful Soviet partisan leader was Ukrainian! A quarter of Soviet Marshals were Ukrainian! The collaborators never were a significant percent of the population.
7 million Ukrainians fought in the Red Army, hundreds of thousands fought as partisans.
“Uhhh clearly that’s because the evil Bolsheviks FORCED them to at GUNPOINT, otherwise they’d get sent to the GULAG! This was a display of Stalinist authoritarianism and the fact that they didn’t respect the will of the Ukrainian people to let the Nazis set up Reichskommissariat Ukraine is proof that the Ruzzian ORCS deserved Generalplan Ost.”
I was hedging because I didn’t want to look up the numbers. Imagine if there was a nation that was majority violent antisemitic landlords! It would make Iran reconsider their aversion to nuclear weapons.
7 million Ukrainians fought in the Red Army, hundreds of thousands fought as partisans. The highest scoring Allied ace was Ukrainian! The most successful Soviet partisan leader was Ukrainian! A quarter of Soviet Marshals were Ukrainian! The collaborators never were a significant percent of the population.
That’s telling. These are the people running the actual combat operations against nzi occupation.
I was hedging because I didn’t want to look up the numbers. Imagine if there was a nation that was majority violent antisemitic landlords! It would make Iran reconsider their aversion to nuclear weapons.
Don’t forget Lyudmila “Lady Death” Pavlichenko! Sniper with over 300 Nazi kills.