Russia releases archives exposing Latvian Waffen-SS atrocities in WWII : worldnews

[-] falx@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 day ago

And yet Kremlin can't stop from propping up the fascist Legionnaires in Romania "for democracy".

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[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So Russia is going to invade Latvia next?

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[+] dzsimbo@lemm.ee -6 points 1 day ago

For sure, countries need to look inward and start digesting that many people ate the onion in the first half of the 40s. Not because we need justice for the deaths of local minorities commited by nationals, but because this type of behaviour causes great trauma not just for the victims, but the aggressors. They pass this trauma down and it remains alive in current generations. It usually doesn't even manifest itself as outright racism, just lots of anger issues in general (I guess this part is anecdotal).

All that being said, fuck Russia for bringing this up now. They went in to Ukraine under the flag of denazification. But Latvia is in Nato, so I don't really see this as a cassus beli, but more of sowing division in EU.

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[+] Madison420@lemmy.world -11 points 2 days ago

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

You get that Russia offered to fight against the Nazis with Britain and France but Britain and France refused right?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee -5 points 2 days ago

I mean it doesn't change the fact that Soviet Union did make a deal with the Nazis and split Europe between them. Nobody is doubting that there was a reason for doing it.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

If that's a 'fact' it should be easy to prove right?
Or is it more likely you pulled it from your ass?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not sure if you're joking but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

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[+] Bernard@friends.ravergram.club -12 points 2 days ago

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[-] marathon@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 days ago

Oh, I'm sure the command knew what was going on, the subtext indicates it was encouraged. This is the prime reason that the young folk that have never been to war, seem to be quick to implement it. It should always be the very last resort because things like this happen, when the enemy is demonized to such an extent.

[-] begsby@liberdon.com 8 points 2 days ago

@marathon @Bernard they knew, and latvian ss were also "Unterrasse", but the kind that would have been taken care later. listen to Himmlers secret speech

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Even" US army forces were ordered to commit atrocities (for the usefulness of terror ot for the quick fix/shortcut of it), but some units did them in their own (that command may or may not have found out later about). It's just that war is chaos, & fog of war very real and a tool. The logistics of war are insane & at every level there are just individual people prone to people things.

Propaganda paints a picture for you and the tool to flight it is knowledge.

[-] marathon@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago

Never on the same scale as the Waffen-SS.

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