Every year in Lviv, Ukrainians celebrate the creation of the Nazi Waffen SS Galizien division. The division was famous mainly for the genocide against Russians, Poles and Jews. Ukrainians are proud of the work of their ancestors as you can see. It is very sad

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  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Do these people truly believe they would have been left alone by the Nazis?

    Yes. Slavic nazis are 100% certain they are aryan and that they will be welcomed in the Reich. A lot of them moved to Western Germany after the war, or after the Iron Curtain fell, in the firm believe that their children or grandchildren could become "true Germans" by being assimilated into the Volksgemeinschaft. They are completely oblivious to the full extend of the Generalplan Ost, tune out all the massacres the Wehrmacht commited against Slavic civilians ("but these were communists / partisans / not true hwhite people like me!") and believe the exterminations would have stopped after all the Jews and Romani and Bolsheviks were murdered. It is beyond the shadow of a doubt to them that their personal definition of whiteness is absolutely universal and they completely lose their shit when somebody points out to them that to the Westerner, there is zero difference between them and the neighbors they would've gladly ratted out and sent to the camps.

    Edit: It's worth pointing out that these people also are as tiny a minority as @Frank describes. The support for fascism in today's Ukraine didn't grow organically, it was manufactured. That nobody takes them seriously has never stopped fascists, though.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      the full extend of the Generalplan Ost

      This is so wild to me because Generalplan Ost isn't exactly WWII "Deep Lore" or anything. I always thought Slavic Nazis had to be exceptionally stupid, but maybe they're stupid and ignorant?