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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