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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

So Russia is setting the framework for their next invasion? Lord knows if/when Ukraine wraps up, they have to immediately start another war or the public will start asking questions about their non-existent economy.

[–] Jimius@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 hours ago (2 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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's true, except people from Baltic countries, all of the Eastern Block, and notably Finns love the narrative of bad bad barbaric Russia that always oppressed them, and bad bad totalitarian USSR that was "worse than Nazis".

Just recently certain Linus Torvalds expressed a interesting sentiment about being a Finn and knowing something about "Russian aggression", well, Soviet-Finnish conflicts didn't start with the Winter war, and the Winter war was preceded by a few suggestions ending in an ultimatum. By those suggestions Finland would receive far greater amounts of territory (in the areas it claimed before at that) than the stripe of land and a few small islands in artillery range of Leningrad it would be giving away. That's rather soft if you consider the character of the preceding Soviet-Finnish war. And Finland's participation in the blockade of Leningrad while allied with, well, Nazis makes the "worse than Nazis" argument more easily understandable and still wrong.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 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.

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