Thread by @IAPonomarenko

It's unbelievable how dumb and reality-defying propaganda can be.

It's based on and spread via incredible ignorance, lack of understanding of basic facts of general knowledge from the secondary school curriculum, and incredibly shameless display of the Dunning-Krueger effect.

Now, the latest thing in Russian propaganda on Ukraine is this incredibly stupid "GOTCHA!" Ukraine "has a colorful Nazi history" because a 98-year-old Waffen-SS veteran, an ethnic Ukrainian who has lived in the West for the last 75 years, was mistakenly given an ovation in the Canadian parliament.

It's now being presented as if during WWII and up to this time, Ukraine has been stuffed full of no one but sworn Nazis and most various Nazi collaborators, while ethnic Russians have always been the only ones to fight and defeat Nazism.

So this somehow gives Putin the right to declare today's Ukraine "a Nazi state" and pursue the country's annihilation via the most brutal war of conquest since the very WWII.

I love this torrent of imbecilic WWII takes from geniuses who seriously believe that citizenship defines a human being's DNA, which, therefore, can be somehow targeted via ethnicity-centered biological weapons.

What these beautiful minds who wouldn't find Ukraine on a map comfortably forget about is the estimated 400,000 ethnic Russians who served with Nazi Germany's various military formations between 1941 and 1945.

Ever heard of General Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army (ROA) corps (120,000-130,000 troops), part of the Wehrmacht in 1942-44?

Or the 29th Waffen-SS Division "RONA" ("The Kaminski brigade" responsible for the slaughter of Warsaw that shocked even the senior SS command)? Or the Russland Division (8,000-10,000 troops)?

Or of some 80,000 Russian Cossacks who served Adolf Hitler, including as part of the 15th SS Cossack Corps and the 1st SS Cossack Cavalry Division?

Or maybe, since we're talking about Waffen-SS, we should also be talking about, I don't know, the Viking Division formed of SS volunteers from north European countries -- Norway, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands?

Or the 13th SS-Division Handschar of Bosnian Muslims? Or the 33rd SS Division Charlemagne of some 7,000 French collaborationists?

Or a number of American Volksdeutsche that once crossed the ocean to fight for the Fuhrer in Europe?

Do those figures say those nations also deserve to be enslaved and bombed into the stone age in 2023 from the point of view of some perverted high moral ground?

No?

What those acid tongue Kremlin bootlickers on Twitter are not talking about is over 6 million Ukrainians that fought Nazi Germany as part of the Red Army.

Also, 2.5 million Ukrainians who were decorated for valor in combat. And some 250,000 ethnic Ukrainians who fought as part of Allied militaries in Europe and beyond.

Also, let's also talk about up to 10 million Ukrainians, civilians and combatants, who were killed in WWII, with over 700 Ukrainian cities and 28,000 villages destroyed in hostilities.

That's not very helpful to the imbecilic all-Ukrainians-were-all-Nazis narrative, is it?

And it's not a fucking rocket science.

It's the purposeful ignorance spread by apologists of Russia's obsession with territorial grabs and its chauvinistic sense of impunity "because Nazis from 80 years ago."

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