>head of the neo-nazis in Lvov dies from heart attack in the middle of a speech
Why is there such a strong Nazi presence in Ukraine, even though Hitler was planning on wiping out most of Ukraine and eastern Europe after winning the war
Ukraine Nazis
Matthew Fisher
Nolan Cook
nationalism
Eli Davis
Ukrainians are deeply in denial of the fact that they're basically the same as Russians, so much that they identify more with the G*rmans who were planning to colonize and exterminate them. They've also convinced themselves that the Holodomor was a genocide, which it wasn't (it was a semi-artificial famine that resulted from Soviet agricultural policy but Ukrainians were by no means the only ones affected).
Nolan Jackson
This isnt a history thread.
Henry Rogers
Thank you for your insight.
Now let's hear a non-antiukrainian point of view for once.
Blake Sanders
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis aren't technically Neo-Nazis, in that they don't actually support Hitler or the Nazis, they just take huge ideas from them, primarily the idea that Ukrainians are the master race that has been oppressed throughout history (in Hitler's idea by the Jews, but in the Ukrainian case, by Poles and Russians).
The current group are the ideological heirs to the OPA-OUN (someone correct me if I got the letters wrong), which was a partisan group of Ukrainian Nationalists most famous for killing 75-100,000 Poles in Galicia (where Lviv is). Keep in mind that it is illegal to insult said organization in Ukraine now, which is pretty disturbing.
Blake Thompson
Regional divide. West Ukraine actually fought with the Nazis during the war (for the most part) because they were that belligerently anti-Russian (that the Germans were going to annihilate them later didn't factor in). East Ukraine did not. Almost all of the modern Neo-Nazis in Ukraine exist in the West.
Charles Lee
>someone correct me if I got the letters wrong
It was UPA (Ukrainian insurgent army), OUN was Organization of Ukrainian nationalists.
Tyler Reyes
There is nothing anti-ukrainian in what he said.
Ukraine has nothing. Absofuckinglutely nothing to show for being the second largest and sixth most populous nation in Europe.
De facto breadbasket and also an industrial heartland of the USSR, Ukraine was the most well-off post-collapse Soviet Republic, shock therapy almost didn't touch its economy compared to Russia, it was debt-free, ever since its independence, it was forgiven hundreds of billions in commodities and token goodwill purchases made by cursed Moskals, yet as Russia was recovering from the 90's, Ukraine was sliding more and more down the drain, propped all the way, but still failing.
Now the country called Ukraine is literal rotten corpse hung from strings and shaken to appear alive by anglos, who use it to fuck with Russians.
Ukraine is nothing. It has nothing. No history. No wealth. No identity. It might as well not exist. But the name is still official, so nationalists cling to it, as it's the only thing they really have at this point.
Andrew Powell
Thanks, user. I never get that right.