Kim Philby was an MI6 agent who had been working for the KGB since college. The man looked like a young Noam Chomsky, but spent his career fucking over MI6, the CIA, and notably Stephen Bandera's fascist 'resistance' movement in Ukraine.
Despite some gross but typical ingrained excuses for Western fascism...
When his forces reached the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, they found thousands of political prisoners had been slaughtered by the Soviets.
In retaliation, they joined the Gestapo in murdering thousands of Jews and Poles in the Lviv Pogrom. It is estimated that around one and a half million Jews were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust.
The article is pretty damn good and talks frankly about Bandera and the UK/US effectively working with Nazis and spin-off fash as well as that legacy being celebrated in modern Ukraine.
I don't think it's smuggling in positive propoganda by stealth though. Just an accurate account and that reality, especially then, had a Soviet bias.
Also, Kim Philby Soviet stamp emoji when?
I like the obligatory “retaliation” excuse, even though it literally fucking says the OUN went on to murder poles, who had fuck all to do the Soviets executing “political prisoners” too (I mean, same for their Jewish victims but the fash were operating under “Judeo-Bolshevism”). As if Bandera or any other fascist thug needed an excuse to act like fascist thugs.
Can you imagine giving the German nazis that much leeway?
“In retaliation for the murder of a German diplomat by a Jewish person in Paris, the Nazis then proceeded to launch the Kristallnacht pogrom. Then invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Yugoslavia, Denmark, and the USSR.”
Aside that and the disgusting framing of the OUN as “Ukraine’s resistance” (despite being dwarfed massively by Ukrainians loyal to the Union), it’s a decent article on the actual events.
You could definitely make a comparison to the post-WW1 "stab in the back" accusations going into the general Nazi accusations of Jews among other groups as inherent opponents and subversive elements towards "the German people" and state.
Not exactly the same situation given the time passing between WW1 and the Nazis taking power, but they used it as one part of their justifications for the Holocaust.