• @Scotty_Trees
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    31 year ago

    This is going to get lost by a lot of people, but thanks for sharing a very informative, yet quick history of it all.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      You’re welcome

      To be clear a lot of the Ukrainians serving in those units were aligned intellectually with the Nazis. It’s a complex story, you know. Not all a good one.

      • @Scotty_Trees
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        11 year ago

        I had no idea Ukraine’s history until Moscow invaded them over a year ago. Since then I’ve learned a lot about Ukrainian history, which helps immensely provide better context in an area I otherwise would know very little. Still not an expert, but when you know more of the complexities like you mentioned, it helps to show the bigger picture so things end up making more sense. Thanks again.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Including most of their leaders, so the title of the post is correct. Yeah, surely every group of Nazi collaborators has its history.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          It’s like Americans celebrating the people who founded that country, even the slaveowners. They’re not celebrating that part of the life of the founders, and it certainly colors the perception of people like Thomas Jefferson, speaking noble ideals about freedom while owning and sometimes raping his slaves.

          These are people who fought for Ukrainian independence. That’s something to celebrate, even if it’s tainted by who they fought for and with, and at times, what their personal beliefs were surrounding issues like race and religion.

          This is a complicated historical topic to Ukrainians. It’s not them celebrating Nazi collaboration.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I’ve met plenty of Ukrainians, it’s literally too common (notably more than for Russians in general, which is already an achievement) for them to ascribe personal traits to genes and thus characterize whole peoples as good or bad (I’m not doing that now, cause I’m talking about society and education). I mean, really, it irritates you.

            The issue is that their idea of nationalism is not yet separate from typical Nazi one. Just much more moderate. It shows in various more nuanced conversations on ethnic conflicts, state policies on minorities, centralism, civil rights etc.