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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 minutes ago

Good article from forward on the existing Nazi collaborator monuments in Latvia, and their participation in the Holocaust.

[–] Jimius@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think the keyword here is "Waffen-SS" not "Latvian". Fascists and racists come in all nationalities. The Dutch really hate nazis, but a sizeable portion of the population aided in the holocaust regardless.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Percentage-wise Latvia had more % of population in SS than any other country including Germany so i think the "Latvian" part did played at least some role.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the Baltics and especially ukraine had large percentages of nazis.
Nothing has changed.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Ukraine actually had tiny % of nazis in WW2. It was like 250000 or so nazis compared to at least 7 million Ukrainian partisans and Red Army soldiers. It's just that west after war absorbed, coddled and promoted the nazi survivors and after 1991 send them back with a huge propaganda bucks, and in 2014 helped them organize the coup.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Anything interesting in it? RT is blocked in Germany.

[–] falx@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And yet Kremlin can't stop from propping up the fascist Legionnaires in Romania "for democracy".

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

LOL the western propaganda press suddenly quit reporting about that 'Russian influence' lie when it was proven it was the Romanian liberals who did it.
You should keep up with the lies you parrot.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

I love how you're getting downvoted for stating factual information that's been reported in mainstream western media https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-liberals-tiktok-campaign-pro-russia-candidate-calin-georgescu/

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