It was only 80 years ago...
On March 22, 1943 a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Punitive Police Unit - Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 - burned to death an entire Belorussian village Khatyn.
See https://ura-observer.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-march-22-1943-ukrainian-nazi.html
Then what are YOU willing to do to prevent the spread of Neo-Nazism and the resurgence / reincarnation of Fascism & Nazism themselves in modern Europe?
Are YOU willing to condemn the rehabilitation and glorification of Nazis, Nazi war criminals (like veterans of Nazi Waffen SS divisions and Nazi police battalions) and Nazi collaborators (including propagandists), especially from among nations of the Former Soviet Union, like Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia?
Are YOU willing to condemn the display and use of Nazi symbols and insignia,
see Nazi Symbolism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_symbolism
including among today's Ukrainian soldiers and paramilitaries, such as
a. Black Sun (symbol)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)
b. Nazi Death Head Symbol (Totenkopf)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_SS_Panzer_Division_Totenkopf
c. Nazi Wolf's Hook (Wolfsangel)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel
d. Nazi Iron Cross
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross
e. Nazi Skull Ring (The SS-Ehrenring ("SS Honour Ring"), unofficially called Totenkopfring)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Ehrenring
f. Nazi SS Double Lighting Bolt (doppelte Siegrune, "Victory" symbol ("Victory, Victory!") or "Schutzstaffel")
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel
g. Nazi Imperial Eagle (The "Reichsadler")
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler
h. Nazi Swastika
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Use_in_Nazism
Or do you believe that the use of these evil Nazi symbols by Ukrainian troops fighting Russians today is somehow justified by
- Russian "aggression" against "innocent & democratic" Ukraine?
-- BTW, the same Ukraine that, since the "Revolution of Dignity" in February of 2014 (i.e. violent insurrection that overthrew and replaced (under US direction and support) a democratically elected president by a radical nationalist coalition), has committed numerous unjustified war crimes & crimes against humanity against its pro-Russian opponents in Kiev, Odessa and Donbass coal-mining region of Eastern Ukraine.
- the need to boost Ukrainian troop morale by letting them use symbols that Ukrainian Nazi War criminals and collaborators (who are glorified and worshiped as Ukraine's great heroes and true patriots by its current Russo-phobic government)
- the desire to instill fear into Russian & pro-Russian Ukrainian forces by using the symbols of Russia's recent archenemy - Nazi Germany?
So are YOU willing to condemn the perpetrators of The Holocaust (the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during WWII) as well as their local collaborators (partners in crime) in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia?
Are YOU willing to condemn Ukrainian Nazi war criminals and collaborators that killed hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles and Belarussians during Nazi Germany's occupation of the Ukraine and Belarus from 1941 to 1944, such as
1. Stepan Bandera
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
2. Roman Shukhevych
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shukhevych
3. Andriy Melnyk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Melnyk_(Ukrainian_military_leader)
4. Waffen SS Division Galicia (14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician))
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
5. Nachtigall Battalion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachtigall_Battalion
6. Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzmannschaft_Battalion_118
7. Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzmannschaft_Battalion_201
8. Dirlewanger Brigade
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirlewanger_Brigade
Because if we're not willing today to condemn (unilaterally and without reservation) the above Nazi symbols, individuals and units, then the horrors of war (fueled by hate or superiority) will happen again -- sooner than you think (if not now), including:
- war of aggression to acquire natural & human resources and geopolitical advantages,
- war of hate against those considered less human/inferior,
- war crimes, such as genocide, and
- crimes against humanity.
So where do you stand today on the above issues?
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On March 22, 1943 A Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Punitive Police Unit burned to death an entire Belorussian village Khatyn.
Greg Krasovsky:March 22, 2022
On March 22, 1943 A Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Punitive Police Unit - Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 - burned to death an entire Belorussian village Khatyn along with the infamous Nazi Waffen-SS Dirlewanger Brigade (composed of and led by convicted criminals)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzmannschaft_Battalion_118
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirlewanger_Brigade
The Nazi war machine widely used local collaborators to do their dirty work like in Khatyn, including Belorussians, Russians and Ukrainians.
In today's Belorussia and Russia, students are taught to remember and despise these Nazi collaborators and war criminals -- despite these war criminals' attempts to justify their actions by "I served the Nazis to free my country from Soviet communists & Bolsheviks"
Unfortunately, in my Ukraine (yes, I'm part Ukrainian and spent the first 4 years of my life in Ukraine), since 1991 and especially since 2014 the Ukrainian government recognized and prompted (with tacit approval by the U.S.) Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and war criminals as Ukrainian heroes, even during Jewish- Ukrainian President Zelensky's time in office.
Streets were named after these war criminals, monuments erected, stamps issued, portraits placed on paper currency and, more importantly, they were glorified and presented as role models ("true Ukrainian patriots!") in school and college text books and academic programs.
Sad, but true.
So what's the result?
Please read the rest of this article at:
https://ura-observer.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-march-22-1943-ukrainian-nazi.html
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