Thread by @sumlenny

I wonder why the topic of "Ukrainian collaboration with Nazis" is so popular in the West, and no one mentions way more active and broad collaboration of Russians with Nazis (I don't speak here about Stalin-Hitler pact). THREAD:

Dozens of thousands of Russians used to fight for Hinter as SS or Wehrmacht soldiers. Most know formations were:
1) Russian Liberating Army (ROA), up to 130,000 soldiers in 1945, under command of General Vlasov, a former Soviet Lieutenant General, decorated with Lenin Order.

ROA used the "St.Andrew Flag" as their ensign, now used by Russian navy.

Two SS divisions:
2) 29th Russian Liberation People's Army (RONA) division of SS, up to 8,000 ppl (1st Russian SS division);
3) 30th SS division (2nd Russian SS division), up to 4,400 ppl

4) Division "Russland", up to 10,000 ppl. They used as their ensign the "tricolour" flag, nowadays Russia's nation flag

5) 15th Cossacks SS Corps, up to 30,000 ppl, under command of General von Pannwitz
6) SS-Sonderregiment (special regiment) Warager, up to 2,500 ppl
7) Russian Corps in Serbia (formed out of ethnically Russian emigrants)

There were also attempts to collaborate with Nazis on structural level. For example, in November 1941 - August 1943 former Soviet authorities on the territory of Russian regions Bryansk, Oryol and Kursk tried to create a "Lokot republic" under Nazis permission, with 581,000 ppl

This collaborators' entity had its Nazi-controlled army RONA (Russian Liberating People's Army) with up to 20,000 ppl. On the photo: the "head" of "republic" with his RONA army.

Many Russian orthodox priests welcomed Nazis and offered their prayers to Hitler:

Do cases of massive collaboration mean, that (in 1941-45) Soviet Union or Russians were allies of Hitler? No. Does this mean Russians should be brandmarked as "collaborators"? No.
So please stop repeat the stupid idea of "Ukrainian collaborators". It is dishonest and wrong. END.