Millions of Ukrainians became victims of World War II. Of the total victims of the USSR, every fourth was Ukrainian.
The USSR, actually Russia, which already occupied many countries, had been preparing for this war for many years.
■ It armed itself for gold from the sale of bread taken away from the starving Ukrainians.
■ It helped Hitler come to power by splitting the coalition with the left in the Reichstag, trained the top leadership of the Wehrmacht, trained Luftwaffe aces at the Lypetsk flight school, where the USSR also participated in the testing of German aircraft, and trained tankers, including General Guderian, at the “Kama” school in Kazan, ensured the operation of the German chemical weapons facility “Tomka” near Saratov, supplied Germany with raw materials and food.
■ For a third of the war, from 1939 to 1941, it was an ally of Hitler.
According to the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Wehrmacht and the Soviet army tore Poland in half, and the Russians occupied Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania (each of the aforementioned countries paid for the Russian occupation with thousands of victims – executions, camps, deportations, etc.).
Therefore, the death of millions of Ukrainians during World War II was part of the process of Russia’s destruction of Ukraine.
Just one example.
Only during the time when Russia was retaking Ukrainian lands from Hitler, 900 thousand Ukrainian fighters were mobilized from these territories into the ranks of the Soviet troops.
Hundreds of thousands of them were actually teenagers or elderly people. They were mobilized in practically any health condition.
All of them were either in German captivity or under German occupation, i.e. they were traitors for the Russian (“Soviet”) government.
According to various experts, the Soviet army lost over a million people in the Battle of the Dnieper (river).
The vast majority were precisely those untrained, poorly or completely unarmed Ukrainian boys, even without military uniforms. They were called “black infantry” or “black-jackets.” One rifle was given for 5-10 people.
Among them was the future Ukrainian writer Anatoliy Dimarov. He miraculously survived after being seriously wounded. According to his recollections, they were “armed” with half bricks and thrown onto the ice under German machine guns and mines. And behind them were the barrels of the retreat-blocking units.
According to the Germans, some of their machine gunners went crazy because they were forced to shoot at close range thousands of young unarmed people who were doomed to run towards them.
In several places, Ukrainians were forced to cross the Dnieper without pontoons or boats. Raincoats stuffed with straw quickly sank to the bottom along with thousands of Ukrainian soldiers.
This is how the “Marshal of Victory” Zhukov and other generals of the Red Army commanded.
Since the time of Peter I, Ukrainians have remained for Russia just a resource that must be used and destroyed.
This was the same case during other battles:
■ the Crimean War in the 19th century
■ the First and Second World Wars
■ the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979
■ and other wars that Russia waged almost continuously, using enslaved peoples as a resource. It is the same today, when the Russian Federation mobilizes tens of thousands from occupied Ukrainian territories to kill Ukrainians defending their homeland.
What is this if not genocide? And where are the real Nazis?