Weren’t there millions of Ukrainians who fought for the Red Army?
Do you mean to imply that the Red Army didn’t commit atrocities in Ukraine during WWII? A quick Wikipedia search suggests they committed war crimes too.
I’m not aware of a Soviet genocide plan for the region (at the time), but I don’t think we’d want to honour vets of the Red Army in Parliament either.
No way, you mean the Red Army wasn’t too happy fighting a country that literally thought Slavs were subhuman and that the only reason Slavs shouldn’t all be dead is because they weren’t done doing that to the Jews?
Do you mean to imply that the Red Army didn’t commit atrocities in Ukraine during WWII? A quick Wikipedia search suggests they committed war crimes too.
I’m not aware of a Soviet genocide plan for the region (at the time), but I don’t think we’d want to honour vets of the Red Army in Parliament either.
No way, you mean the Red Army wasn’t too happy fighting a country that literally thought Slavs were subhuman and that the only reason Slavs shouldn’t all be dead is because they weren’t done doing that to the Jews?
You must be joking…
Is not like the Ukranians should be in love with the Soviets when just a decade earlier this had happened:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
My point? I don’t think we can really pin the bad choice of an army for an Ukranian in the '40s