These reminders of Ukrainian collaboration with the Third Reich has provided another Nazi-themed black eye for the Ukrainian regime which has already been accused-with good reason-of supporting neo-Nazi groups like the Azov Battalion which has long employed Nazi symbols such as the wolfsangel, the swastika, and the black sun.
Ukrainian nationalists like those in the Azov battalion have also sought to dismiss criticism of Ukraine-Nazi collaboration while portraying pro-Nazi Ukrainians as mere innocent anti-Russian freedom fighters.
The CBC makes a similar claim that the Hunka situation "Reveals a complicated past" and that Ukrainian Nazis were simply choosing what they perceived to be the lesser of two evils.
The camp served as a forced labor camp for Jews and others under the watchful eyes of Ukrainian "Freedom fighters." The camp also served as an SS training camp, mainly for Ukrainian recruits.
A 2003 investigation by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance into the massacre concluded that "The crime was committed by the 4th battalion of the 14th division" In 2005, the Institute of History at the Ukrainian Academy of sciences agreed with a Ukrainian nationalist who, at the time, declared that "Ukrainian SS-men wiped out the entire village."
Ukrainian nationalists had long clashed with the Polish state in western Ukraine, often in and around the Polish city of Lwów-now Lviv in western Ukraine-which was heavily Ukrainian in the interwar years of the Second Polish Republic.
Contrary to the now-preferred myth that the Galizien unit was just a bunch of misunderstood good guys, Rudling concludes "There is no overt indication that the unit in any way was dedicated to Ukrainian statehood, let alone independence. The volunteers committed themselves to a German victory, the New European Order, and to Adolf Hitler personally."
https://mises.org/wire/left-now-telling-us-ukrainian-nazis-arent-so-bad-after-all
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