Thread by @sumlenny

While Moscow weaponises its narrative "Nazi Germany had fought against (Soviet) Russia", it were Belarus and Ukraine, which were mostly occupied and destroyed by Nazis. Only 3% of modern Russia was occupied by Nazis, compared to 100% of Belarus and 100% of Ukraine. THREAD

In the modern German discussion, all the good anti-Nazi actions done by the USSR in WWII are "Russian", while Ukrainians get the role of "collaborationists". Yesterday newspaper @DIEZEIT publishes a propaganda story by Putin, and editors (!) name Soviet soldiers - "Russian".

Among all nations of the USSR, Ukraine had suffered most losses in WWII in percentage to population: 16,3% (Russia: 12,7%). Over 75% of Ukrainian losses were civilians. gdb.rferl.org/90A46705-EC03-…

Major Ukrainian cities had been devastated. Ukrainian capital Kyiv had lost 720,000 people out of 900,000, or 80%. Vinnytsya had lost 61,000 out of 96,000, or 63%.

1,370 Ukrainian villages and towns were completely or partly destroyed, their inhabitants killed during Nazis' "punitive actions". The biggest massacre on non-Jewish population done by Nazis was a massacre of Ukrainian Koryukivka in March 1943 with 6,700 ppl killed (Lidice: 390).

Over 6 million Ukrainians have fought in Allied armies against Nazis. Most of these Ukrainians were Soviet soldiers, but Ukrainians have also fought in the US Army, in Canadian army and in other armies.

Fightings took place on Ukrainian territory for 680 days. 40% of material losses of the USSR, calculated by Soviet officials, were losses on the territory of Ukraine. 45% of all Ukrainian houses were destroyed or made uninhabitable, making 10m ppl homeless.

The most bloody pages of Holocaust on the territory of the USSR happened in Ukraine. In Babyn Yar only - than a Kyiv suburb - Nazis have killed 33,000 Jews from Kyiv just within 2 days. German Einsatzgruppen moved methodically from one town to another to kill every Jew in Ukraine

Moreover: Ukraine is the country which had faced fightings since the very beginning of WWII in September 1939. On 17th September the USSR - than an ally of Nazis - had launched its offensive and hit regions of nowadays Western regions of Ukraine.

Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine had its aftermath in June 1941. As Nazis had betrayed their Soviet allies and attacked the USSR, Soviet secret police NKVD had started to execute Ukrainian political prisoners in Lviv, Sambir, other cities close to the border (and frontline).

Within the first week of Nazi invasion, Soviet secret police NKVD had executed 22,000 political prisoners in towns of Western Ukraine:
uinp.gov.ua/informaciyni-m…

Ukraine is one of the nations which had mostly suffered during the WWII starting from 1939 and until the end of the war. It was a nation which had made the victory over Nazis possible, and paid for it with blood, pain and suffering. It is dishonest to ignore this. END

One can find a lot of information (English and German versions) here: texty.org.ua/projects/10385…