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Great find, and recommendation. A historical trove of ethnic and political dynamics in Eastern Europe after WW2 including Germans creating divisions within the Orthodox Church amongst Ukrainians parallel to todays strategy of tension, the lack of enthusiasm for Bandera in most of Eastern Ukraine and Kiev, only among intelligentsia and Western Ukraine, another parallel.
— Jul 27, 2024 09:58AM
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Jul 27, 2024 06:28PM
The Banderites were obssessed with killins Poles, murdering tens of thousands with axes and shovels. They would sometimes dress up as red partisans while doing it to provoke discord among anti-fascist forces
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The Banderites very reluctantly fought the Germans under mass pressure. In their words, 'Ukrainians would have been satisfied with a [German] protectorate as a state form'. True patriots. Even in 1944, they were tactically cooperating with the Germans
“Contrary to myths, the USSR quickly learned how effective large scale amnesties were to stop Nazi collaborationism and anti-communist insurgencies. Many former Nazi collaborators died fighting their former masters”
“The Nazis never executed any of its soldiers for counterinsurgency abuses against civilians. The Red Army executed more of its soldiers for civilian abuses than any other WW2 army”
“Russian was sponsored as a means of interethnic communication in a country with 100 ethnic groups. But the USSR supported local languages and punished officials who tried to replace local languages with Russian”
“Much of the swing towards support for the communists was because the Nazis and their west Ukrainian collaborators reversed the progressive agrarian reform…The Soviets viewed agrarian reform as the key counter-insurgency tactic, more important than police and military actions’
The USSR attempted to ally with the west Ukrainian uniate church (a mixture of catholicism with ordodoxy). However, when the uniate church continued supporting the Banderites, the decision was made to extend the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church…Ukrainian nationalists killed more Ukrainian priests than did the soviets’
