If 'roughly the same language' counts, then it's as close to Russian as it is to modern Ukrainian - seeing as these languages had not even diverged from Old Church Slavonic at the time.
And the modern state claiming this legacy says not that much. Obviously, they'd grasp at any fig-leaf. Considering the many monuments built to Nazi collaborators and war criminals, even that.
Isn't settling your own people in conquered land against international law? I guess the allies cared as much about that as they did about the Katyn massacre.
And as for the Katyń, the Soviets wanted Germans to be prosecuted for it at Nuremberg.
The Allies told them to fuck off,
That's very noble of them. As noble as telling the Polish government in exile to drop it, and then to accept communist subversion.
(Obviously, I know they didn't have much of a choice in times of war. I'm just pointing this out because people pretend that the West is so noble, which obviously it is not. It's Realpolitik just like that of the Nazis and the USSR.)
but the Soviets hanged over 20 German officers for it anyway.
They were very merciful, hanging 49,979 fewer than FDR agreed to.
Btw the guards at Nuremberg were Baltic ex-SS who have defected to the Allies. They served in the American MP.
Those Balts man. First be over-represented among communists, help establish communism in Russia, then collaborate with the Germans against the Russians, and then defect from the Germans.
They killed millions of German prisoners. And ritually (after their typical "trials") executed many thousands, but usually without any trial. Just in captivity, or upon surrendering. Just in one city they killed thousands of wounded Germans with flamethrowers.
Do you know the story of General Vlasov and his army? The entire story.
Or do you know how General Anders would welcome the former Ukrainian SS soldiers? Among any other remotely Polish defectors, which is how his army grew so much (his emissaries were touring all the Allies camps for prisoners to rescue). Do you know his story at all? The "Polish Moses"? He also helped organize the "Stern Gang" to fight ghe British imperialists while in Palestine, among so many things.
I guess you're happy the West isn't betraying the Eastern Europeans to placate the Beast in Moscow this time round.
They killed millions of German prisoners. And ritually (after their typical "trials") executed many thousands, but usually without any trial. Just in captivity, or upon surrendering. Just in one city they killed thousands of wounded Germans with flamethrowers.
The German did worse, of course, but that in no way justifies this.
Do you know the story of General Vlasov and his army? The entire story.
I don't even know who the guy is. Nor your General Anders.
I guess you're happy the West isn't betraying the Eastern Europeans to placate the Beast in Moscow this time round.
Nah, they're just warmongering and advancing their corrupt geopolitical interests, as always.
The Soviets also did it with the occupied Japanese isles too (100% ethnically cleansed and colonized, to this day, and btw WWII officially never ended between Japan and Moscow).
If 'roughly the same language' counts, then it's as close to Russian as it is to modern Ukrainian - seeing as these languages had not even diverged from Old Church Slavonic at the time.
And the modern state claiming this legacy says not that much. Obviously, they'd grasp at any fig-leaf. Considering the many monuments built to Nazi collaborators and war criminals, even that.
Isn't settling your own people in conquered land against international law? I guess the allies cared as much about that as they did about the Katyn massacre.
And as for the Katyń, the Soviets wanted Germans to be prosecuted for it at Nuremberg.
The Allies told them to fuck off, but the Soviets hanged over 20 German officers for it anyway.
Btw the guards at Nuremberg were Baltic ex-SS who have defected to the Allies. They served in the American MP.
That's very noble of them. As noble as telling the Polish government in exile to drop it, and then to accept communist subversion.
(Obviously, I know they didn't have much of a choice in times of war. I'm just pointing this out because people pretend that the West is so noble, which obviously it is not. It's Realpolitik just like that of the Nazis and the USSR.)
They were very merciful, hanging 49,979 fewer than FDR agreed to.
Those Balts man. First be over-represented among communists, help establish communism in Russia, then collaborate with the Germans against the Russians, and then defect from the Germans.
They killed millions of German prisoners. And ritually (after their typical "trials") executed many thousands, but usually without any trial. Just in captivity, or upon surrendering. Just in one city they killed thousands of wounded Germans with flamethrowers.
Do you know the story of General Vlasov and his army? The entire story.
Or do you know how General Anders would welcome the former Ukrainian SS soldiers? Among any other remotely Polish defectors, which is how his army grew so much (his emissaries were touring all the Allies camps for prisoners to rescue). Do you know his story at all? The "Polish Moses"? He also helped organize the "Stern Gang" to fight ghe British imperialists while in Palestine, among so many things.
I guess you're happy the West isn't betraying the Eastern Europeans to placate the Beast in Moscow this time round.
The German did worse, of course, but that in no way justifies this.
I don't even know who the guy is. Nor your General Anders.
Nah, they're just warmongering and advancing their corrupt geopolitical interests, as always.
The Soviets also did it with the occupied Japanese isles too (100% ethnically cleansed and colonized, to this day, and btw WWII officially never ended between Japan and Moscow).