RT @visegrad24: Ukrainian soldier taking down a communist flag in an area liberated from the Russian Army. The flag of that murderous ideo…

RT @visegrad24: Ukrainian soldier taking down a communist flag in an area liberated from the Russian Army.

The flag of that murderous ideo…

RT @visegrad24: East Germans fleeing to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall. People realized that it was the last oppo…

RT @visegrad24: East Germans fleeing to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall.

People realized that it was the last oppo…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: Solovyev is still bitter about his Italian villa. I wonder if we will ever see that other propagandist on his show a…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: Solovyev is still bitter about his Italian villa.

I wonder if we will ever see that other propagandist on his show a…

RT @jonnytickle: TASS in 2018: Upgrading Russian tanks to fire depleted uranium ammunition “does not violate any international treaties” T…

RT @jonnytickle: TASS in 2018: Upgrading Russian tanks to fire depleted uranium ammunition “does not violate any international treaties”

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Photo of Controversial Galician SS Soldiers

The one in the lower left shares my last name, apparently.

The Galician SS Division was formed when the Nazis were already in full retreat. They consisted of about 13,000 young men from Western Ukraine. I think (and also, I would like to think) that they were following the pattern of 25 years earlier, where Ukrainians served in the Autro-Hungarian Army, and then formed a core of a Ukrainian army for the short-lived Ukrainian state. In their only major engagement, the Battle of Brody, the Galician SS Division took 80% casualties.

One veteran of the battle, Hryhoriy Hevryk, was taken into the Red Army, killed in Poland, and made an official Hero of the Soviet Union.

Some veterans of the Division later carried out war crimes.

I always thought the Soviet System produced this sort of outrageous propaganda. But it seems like a Kremlin thing regardless of what political system they have. https://t.co/YMhvtekG6w

https://twitter.com/shchedri/status/1638593452366602251

I always thought the Soviet System produced this sort of outrageous propaganda. But it seems like a Kremlin thing regardless of what political system they have. https://t.co/YMhvtekG6w

RT @Gerashchenko_en: Russian propagandists first discuss that China cooperates with Russia because it’s mutually profitable. Then they shar…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: Russian propagandists first discuss that China cooperates with Russia because it’s mutually profitable. Then they shar…

RT @Biz_Ukraine_Mag: Quite the contrast: at the exact moment the Japanese PM was honouring the victims of Russian war crimes in Bucha today…

RT @Biz_Ukraine_Mag: Quite the contrast: at the exact moment the Japanese PM was honouring the victims of Russian war crimes in Bucha today…

RT @OlenaHalushka: Nazar Tsyhan fell defending Ukraine in the Bakhmut district. He was just 22, got married last October. Rest in glory htt…

RT @OlenaHalushka: Nazar Tsyhan fell defending Ukraine in the Bakhmut district. He was just 22, got married last October. Rest in glory htt…

RT @P_Kallioniemi: In today’s #vatnik soup, I’ll introduce a Spanish-Russian “journalist” & political scientist,Liubov “Liu” Sivaya (@liusi…

RT @P_Kallioniemi: In today’s #vatnik soup, I’ll introduce a Spanish-Russian “journalist” & political scientist,Liubov “Liu” Sivaya (@liusi…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: On the video of Putin speaking to residents of occupied Mariupol, a scream can be heard in the background: “It’s not t…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: On the video of Putin speaking to residents of occupied Mariupol, a scream can be heard in the background: “It’s not t…

RT @visegrad24: China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has issued new regulations on map content. They require the use of old Chinese names…

RT @visegrad24: China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has issued new regulations on map content.

They require the use of old Chinese names…

RT @Biz_Ukraine_Mag: Not just Putin’s war: 77% of Russians support the invasion of Ukraine, according to the latest monthly data from the L…

RT @Biz_Ukraine_Mag: Not just Putin’s war: 77% of Russians support the invasion of Ukraine, according to the latest monthly data from the L…