&host=rt.com&uri=/politics/ukrainian-nationalists-behind-waffen-ss-ads/&via=(none)&ua=CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html))
Ukrainian nationalists behind Waffen SS ads
Published: 21 April, 2009, 15:50
Edited: 18 March, 2010, 06:29
Ukrainian posters featuring the insignia of the Waffen SS Division 'Galicia,' which fought alongside the Nazis during World War II, have sparked an international scandal.
The posters, bearing the military unit’s coat-of-arms and the words “They fought for Ukraine,” appeared in the Western Ukrainian city of Lvov last week. The move sparked much criticism from the local Russian-speaking minority, as well as from Russian and Polish officials.
The contractor who ordered the ads was not revealed until Tuesday, when the nationalist party “Freedom” claimed they did it to mark the division’s 66th anniversary. The leader of the party’s branch in Lvov, Ivan Grinda said they were part of the project promoting the "highest spiritual values."
“Division members fought for Ukraine against the Bolsheviks,” he is quoted by the Ukrainin newspaper 'Segonya.'
“Galicia’s formal existence as part of the Nazi troops does not undermine its significance for Ukraine. Lies are told about the division for political benefit,” he claimed.
The division, which consisted of Ukrainian volunteers under German officers’ command, was involved in murders of Polish nationals in Ukraine, and took part in the hunt for Soviet and Polish partisans.
After it was decimated by advancing Soviet troops in the battle of Brody, Galicia was reformed, and used to suppress anti-Nazi uprisings in Slovakia, and to fight Yugoslav partisans in Slovenia.
21.04.2009, 15:20
1 comment
'Georgia plans provocations against NATO'Russia’s envoy to NATO believes that provocations against the alliance’s military from the Georgian side are possible during the joint war games scheduled for May. |
21.04.2009, 18:44
2 comments
Communists officially win in MoldovaMoldova's Central Election Commission has officially confirmed the Communist Party won the country's parliamentary elections. |
The Germans just wanted land in the East, they didn't want any people to actually be there. After these brave men had fought against the commies the Germans would have liquidated them and their families. As far as the Germans were concerned those who could work would work till they died. Those that could not work were to be exterminated. Do you think the Soviets lost 27 million people by accident? It was an extermination on a very large scale, something ignored in the west because there is no interest in the suffering of a rival and the only voices we hear on the matter talk about 6 million dead. In the west it is believed that the Soviets (usually the Russians, which ignores all the other republics actually involved) won because the winters were cold and through shear numbers. They ignore two things, first that by the time the Germans had pushed the Soviets to the gates of Moscow most of the Soviet population were behind enemy lines, and they also forget how quickly and easily their own forces had been pushed out of Europe a year or two before. If numbers could be used so easily to defeat an enemy why did the Chinese do so badly against the Japanese?