• WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      They were choosing what looked like the lesser evil at the time.

      hitler-detector

      The abstract fate of a few thousand Poles and Jews was not a significant factor compared to the number of Bolsheviks’ victims they knew personally.

      jesus-christ

      I wrote this as an ethnic Jew born in Kyiv.

      It goes without saying that were this person around in the 1930’s they’d’ve been a kapo then as well.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I know an ethnic jew born in Kiev. She survived the holocaust, and from her telling lived a pretty good life and raised a family in the USSR. As the Soviet Union was collapsing and antisemitism was increasing she moved with her family to Chicago. She traveled back to Russia several times, but never returned to Ukraine, which I think about a lot. Who wants to survive the holocaust and then still have to live alongside these nationalist shitheads, just waiting for it to happen again.

    • FrogFractions [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Another irony here is that the mass slaughter of horses and cattle by Banderites in the late 1920s and early 1930s was one of the major factors leading to the collapse of food production in the early 1930s and the famine across the southern USSR.