File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0002, message 353


From: "danceswithcarp" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Ukraine Hystery./ POWs and the SS
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:35:06 -0500



From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>

> Anecdotal but anyway, where I used to live in East Anglia, there were 3
> Ukrainian families, all former POWs. I was friendly with one of the sons
of
> the Kudela family. His father had been a member of the SS which apparently
> had a Ukraine element. According to him, and that he was the only source
> should be born in mind, many Uks joined the Nazis to fight  against the
> Russians. He claimed that his bit of the SS was an elite fighting
division -
> I know he would, wouldn't he - but he made no secret of his membership of
> the SS - he still had the cap badge

Yes, and this is exactly where I get cornfused; this man says he joined the
SS to fight the rooskies, which I have no doubt he did.   The Ucraniums was
kind of like the Croats as I understand it.  But others who are posting say
the Ucraniums are the Rooskie heart and soul.   I know Stalin put the famine
in place in the '30s as a partial payback for the Ucraniums being "white
rooskies" in the Civil War but are they really russians or is Ukraine a
country?   I've looked in a couple encyclopedias and they speak of Ukraine
as a place, but more like a tradtional subset of the russian state than as a
nation.

We don't get much eurasian geography here in the eastern midwest of the U$.


carpo




   

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