"Same should apply here. At that time Ukraine was part of Soviet Union. Lets not forget that Soviet Union was fighting the Nazi while USA was sitting on the sidelines enjoying the end of Prohibition. Lets also remember how USSR caught and killed Hitler and saved all those Jews from being gassed."
"Just to close the circle on who defeated Hitler and saved the Jews from more Holocaust. .. "
"Carlos you are 100% correct. PALJOEY just went halfcockt out of nowhere to slime Ukraine. I felt I couldn't let those lies just lie there and had to set the record straight. My apologies."
I'm sorry but at the risk of resteering the topic off course and away from male shirtless avatars I have to comment. Suestorm, your knowledge of world history is laughable and you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Life under the Russians both before and after WW2 was just as oppressive for many cultures and people as under the Nazis. That's why multiple countries, not just the Ukraine, rightly or wrongly greeted the Nazis as liberators because they believed foolishly as it was to turn out, that nothing could be as bad as living under the Russians. The Russians have a long history of treating opponents harshly, banishing them to Siberia to work camps for the rest of their short lives. Hitler committed suicide as the Russians were advancing on Berlin. The Russians didn't kill him. The U.S. and ally troops advancing east were the ones who liberated Jews from the vast majority of concentration camps across Poland and Western Germany, not the Russians. If anyone saved the Jews from imprisonment and additional deaths, it was them. The Russians couldn't give a damn whether more Jews died, they were in it strictly to prevent Germany from overtaking Russia and pushing further east. Stalin had signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939 basically dividing up Eastern Europe between themselves and the Nazis. Russia would have never done a thing about Hitler if Germany hadn't broken that pact and invaded Russia. Read a book about Russia's role in WW2 and life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War and educate yourself about the topic. Forgive me but as the descendant of Russian Jews, to hear someone as naive and uninformed as you proclaim the Russians saved the Jews from anything is nauseating.
Sue, I'm sure you are a good person and I don't dislike you as some others appear to here but many of the comments you make are silly and somewhat naive. When those comments are about theater, I just ignore them and really couldn't care less. But when you start commenting about world history and the Russians, you are way, WAY out of your depth.
Updated On: 10/25/13 at 06:52 PM
