“Well if they were “Nazis”, somebody forgot to tell Hitler.”
Exactly. Everyone keeps throwing around the word Nazi. The only Slavs I know of who the Nazis accepted as a worthwhile race were the Cossacks.
“They were scum, but they weren’t “Nazis”, more opportunists.”
Worse. They were purist ideologues. Opportunists can be reasoned with. Ideologues can only win or die trying.
The sad fact is, Ukrainian partisans and Polish AK would have made a good team to keep their lands free, but the hardcode Ukrainians would have none of it.
Worse. They were purist ideologues. Opportunists can be reasoned with. Ideologues can only win or die trying.
Correct, and in history, much carnage has happened between the "win" and the "die."
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There are Holocaust/Soros/EU obsessives here who despise the Poles, the Ukrainians, the Baltics and love the Red Army Liberators.
And they don’t even know that a ‘Nazi’ was a member of the German NSDAP political party which ceased existing in 1945, and no, the party did not conduct the war between 1939 and 1945, nor did it commit war crimes.
From about TWO YEARS AGO...
and now..they have the US backing.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120329/ukraine-svoboda-nationalist-party-nazi-echoes-hitler-pt-2?page=0,1
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120329/ukraine-svoboda-nationalist-party-nazi-echoes-hitler-pt-2
“that’s irrelevant to Svoboda followers. Mychalchyshyn said: “We are against diversity.” In his writings, he says, “We consider tolerance a crime.”
The young ideologue promises a parliament composed of Ukrainians voted for by Ukrainians. Minorities will be given seats based on their proportion of the population. But they won’t be able to vote. His supporters also like his promise to get Ukraine’s nuclear weapons back. When the Soviet Union collapsed the nuclear weapons based in Ukraine were returned to Russia or were decommissioned. “It’s a mentality,” said Mridula Ghosh, a sociologist who works for the East European Development Institute in Kiev. “Svoboda is anti-immigrant, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic”