In 1936, Stalin's regime bought France's most celebrated living novelist a private train carriage, a personal escort, and the honour of delivering the funeral oration for Maxim Gorky on Red Square, with Stalin at his side.
They expected an endorsement in return.
Five months later, he published a book the Kremlin would keep banned in the Soviet Union until 1990. 🧵
Replying to @Alexmega177 @brianoflondon
@SimplyonWorld please maybe you can explain it to me? I'm talking about this thread nitter.cf/Alexmega177/status/209…
Replying to @Bweezie81 @ViadelCorso2266
This is not true.
You are deliberately distorting history.
I would assume that you are working in the interests of Russia.
Let me clarify: By the time of the photograph mentioned above, Lviv was already occupied by Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ho…
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A part (specifically a part of the Ukrainians and not all) of the Ukrainians joined the Nazis for a completely different reason: Ukraine was occupied by the Communists and Western Ukraine saw in the Germans a chance to free themselves from the Communists according
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No, that is not true. Ukraine honors Khmelnytsky not for anti-Jewish pogroms, but for the struggle against Polish rule, his military victories, and the establishment of an autonomous Cossack state.
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Jews frequently served as leaseholders and tax collectors for Polish nobility, which made them a target of hostility among the rebellious peasants and Cossacks. I am also surprised by how widespread negative attitudes toward Ukrainians appear to be among some Jewish people.
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I know. But are you sure it's worth blaming entire nation for this? Jews were killed and expelled in many countries. Did you read entire original thread and understand what exactly I was responding to? I'll help you:
nitter.cf/Alexmega177/status/209…
pay attention to the first screenshot
Here's another Russian propagandist
Replying to @Alexmega177 @ViadelCorso2266
Many Ukrainians took part in atrocities, in some cases embarrassing even the Germans in their savagery. There are good and bad among all peoples, but the bad among Ukrainians during WW2 were monsters.
No, you don't mean the pogroms, but all the Jews killed in Ukraine.
That's what you wrote:
"Most of the Ukrainian Jews who were killed never saw a German soldier."
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@Bweezie81 tell that stupid overly hot woman @ViadelCorso2266 (she blocked me) I didn't try to "whitewash" anyone, I just pointed out the facts: the majority of Ukrainian Jews were killed by the Germans, and I'm not talking about pogroms, but about the general situation.
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Let me repeat: I tried to set the record straight, describing the real situation without oversimplifications or a one-sided view.
Interestingly, she's playing the victim, forcing me to justify myself :)
#Holocaust
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Replying to @Bweezie81 @ViadelCorso2266
This is not true.
You are deliberately distorting history.
I would assume that you are working in the interests of Russia.
Let me clarify: By the time of the photograph mentioned above, Lviv was already occupied by Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ho…
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