For non-Jewish Ukrainians, Stalin was a greater danger to their survival than Hitler.
Keeping Stalin out was a matter of life and death for them.
When Stalin wins, sure enough he brutally murders Ukrainians. Stalin's crimes against humanity outnumber Hitler's.
The funny thing is that you normally hear this on the extreme right and sometimes the moderate right. Now copied by the extreme left, because they have to defend their Globohomo heroes.
Comments about Ukrainian collaboration are often not very nuanced. Considering the depredations of collectivization, it's certainly more understandable than a Frenchman who just decides to enlist in the Waffen SS, but that does not make it justifiable.
It's also worth stressing that Stalin's worst crimes were in the past in 1941, and that Hitler had some rather unpleasant plans for the USSR, including its starvation and depopulation to an extent worse than Stalin could ever dream of.
What fascinates me is that this shows that Carl Schmitt was right and that it's all just friend-enemy distinction. They hate on Nazis because they want to say that 'the right' in general is bad, but now they defend the Nazis because the Nazis fought against ze Russians, and Russians very very bad!
Russian allied Socialists were throwing actual bombs at the time. Antifa was in the streets clashing with the Brownshirts.
The Socialists were aiming for an actual color revolution. Literal Socialist Terrorists were trying to assassinate their political opponents and bring Germany to ruin, so as it could fall into Socialist control.
The funny thing is that you normally hear this on the extreme right and sometimes the moderate right. Now copied by the extreme left, because they have to defend their Globohomo heroes.
Comments about Ukrainian collaboration are often not very nuanced. Considering the depredations of collectivization, it's certainly more understandable than a Frenchman who just decides to enlist in the Waffen SS, but that does not make it justifiable.
It's also worth stressing that Stalin's worst crimes were in the past in 1941, and that Hitler had some rather unpleasant plans for the USSR, including its starvation and depopulation to an extent worse than Stalin could ever dream of.
What fascinates me is that this shows that Carl Schmitt was right and that it's all just friend-enemy distinction. They hate on Nazis because they want to say that 'the right' in general is bad, but now they defend the Nazis because the Nazis fought against ze Russians, and Russians very very bad!
Russian allied Socialists were throwing actual bombs at the time. Antifa was in the streets clashing with the Brownshirts.
The Socialists were aiming for an actual color revolution. Literal Socialist Terrorists were trying to assassinate their political opponents and bring Germany to ruin, so as it could fall into Socialist control.