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Few Ukrainians joined Nazi, few Jews joined Nazi, whole 3 million Russian Army joined Nazi. :-/



This is a hornet nest.

I once read this from Alain Badiou:

"This separatism at certain moments reached extremes that no one could forget, particularly not the Russian people, knowing that the vast mass of the Nazi-armed and organised armies coming from Russian territory were Ukrainian. The Vlasov army was a Ukrainian army. Today we can even read the history of Ukrainians turning entire villages to blood and fire, including French ones. A good part of the repression of the maquis in central France was carried out by Ukrainians. "

Wikimedia presents Vaslov's army as Russian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army

But Wikipedia about Vlasov (SS Division here):

"He (Himmler) oversaw the creation of the SS-Volunteer Division "Galicia" in October 1943 from Ukrainian volunteers, but that same month he said that Vlasov made him "genuinely anxious."

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1569-a-present-default... https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1569-a-present-default...

--- Badiou is a strange guy but I trust him.

In general, I have the impression that the historiography of the Nazi collobaration in Central Europe has been politically influenced in recent years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vlasov




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