Thread by @InnaSovsun

🧵Today, #Putin's Nazi #Russia celebrates Victory Day in #WorldWarII. But who really won the war, whose victory Russia so wants to appropriate?
And who were the biggest victims of this war?
More on this, as well as about #Ukraine and Ukrainians in WWII in this thread⬇️

#Russia often speaks of its power based on a ‘fact’ that they won WWII, and often claim that Germany owes them something, because Russia was the biggest victim of the war.
But this is a manipulation.
France, UK, US & USSR (which consisted not only of🇷🇺but also🇺🇦& others) won WWII

#Russia always forgets the contributions made by US, UK & other allies who fought against Nazis.
They also forget that they gained all their military power thanks to Lend-Lease. Yep, US provided USSR with more than half of the weapons used by USSR. Hundreds of billions of $.

All 15 states of USSR fought against the Nazis.
25% of the Soviet army were Ukrainians. That's about 7 million soldiers. In 1944 every 3rd soldier of Soviet army was #Ukrainian. In multiple battalions fighting on the frontline 60-80% of soliders were Ukrainians.

🇺🇦fought against Nazism
As I wrote, 7 million Ukrainians fought in the USSR army. 120,000 fought in the Polish army. And another 100,000 fought in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought both against the Nazis & against the Communists. In addition, 80,000 fought in the US Army

#Ukraine was the epicenter of WWII. Thousands of battles took place here. Millions of Ukrainians fell victim to this war. According to various estimates, about 10-14 million of Ukrainians were killed. Most of them were civilians. Women, children, elderly. Then also Ukrainian Jews

Germany's defeat in WWII liberated #Ukraine from Nazis occupation. But our country didn't become free, but continued to be occupied by another totalitarian regime — USSR.
Only in 1991 we liberated ourselves from #Russian occupation, when 91% of Ukrainians voted for independence.

30 years later, #Russia refuses to accept that 🇺🇦 doesn't want to be with🇷🇺. They don't let us live the way we want. They're taking away the work that has been invested in our economy and society. They're taking the lives of our people who wanted to live in a democratic country🇪🇺

Because nowadays #Russia despises democracy and human rights. Just like the Nazi Germany.