01-13-2009, 11:49 PM
ham Wrote:An Estonian publisher stirred up debate publishing a calendar to commemorate the men who fought allied with Germany during WWII...maybe THAT will interest them...
To attribute Nazi sympathies to Eastern European allies of Germany is probably a mistake. While leadership with such sympathies emerged and committed atracities alongside the Nazis, the politics of small Eastern European countries had everything to do with national survival.
The Soviet Russians killed as many as 12 million Ukrainians. They were our allies. Does this mean we supported such killings? It simply means that we had common interests.
WWII was the 1,000th war in a series and was about borders and power politics like the other 999. While the genocide cannot be ignored, it was not a motivating factor for anyone, did not affect the course of the war, and was not part of the ultimate resolution.