Please don’t be so proud of yourself. As you mentioned earlier, many EU countries collaborated with the Nazis during WWII, and that was indeed a shame. However, none of them celebrate or represent that collaboration today as a patriotic fight for freedom. Only the Ukrainian government does this openly — for example, by naming military units after the UPA and when Zelensky applauded a Nazi veteran in the Canadian parliament. Without all these Nazi connections, nobody would be saying a word.
@inxhem@FredGaulois no no, the topic was only about why ukrainians are blamed for , cose before you stated only about ukrainians as fighters on ussr side only, so i add some facts, it have nothing with ,,enemys of france,, , so please don,t run around bushes.
Waffen-SS and specialized divisions — The most prominent was the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), also known as the Galicia Division. It recruited heavily in western Ukraine (Galicia). Around 80,000 volunteered,
Auxiliary police and security forces — By late 1942, the SS employed roughly 238,000 native Ukrainian police in Reichskommissariat Ukraine alone.
UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) — This nationalist guerrilla force (tens to hundreds of thousands at peaks) fought both Soviets and (at times) Germans, though it cooperated with them opportunistically against the Red Army late in the war. Now you know.
@OunkaOnX Hold up — this question is coming from a British person!
Damn!! The UK has one of the most extensive histories of invasion and occupation in world history. No — you can ask, but not if you're from Britain.