The Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazis in what is called the Bullet Holocaust of 1.5 million Jews.
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............I admit that I’m not familiar with what the Ukrainians did in WW II but I’m reminded of that old saying that ....”the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
I also remember living in Tokyo 24 years after we NUKED em into oblivion. Now, the Japs are probably our best ally.
Miserare left out an important part of the story. President Zelensky is Jewish, and the descendant of a man who fought the Nazis in WW2 and lost all of his brothers to the Holocaust.
In WW2 Ukrainians fought against the Russians who had enslaved them earlier in the century, and killed Ukrainians by the millions. The first major European genocide of the 1900s was Stalin's murder of millions of Ukrainians in 1932.
In WW2 Ukrainians also fought against the Nazis as members of the Red Army. Many, many Ukrainians were killed in WW2 with entire villages massacred. The war was particularly bad for Ukraine since they ended up fighting two enemies, and each other.