Ukrainian Independence tagged posts

5/Kp GroBdeutschland Group Photo

Our friends (& friend of the site Adam Bednar) in 5/Kp Großdeutschland has teamed up with some of their Ukrainian friends in producing this short about the Ukrainian Independence movement during the Second World War. It’s not a story widely known in the West, but Josef Stalin starved out (by best estimates) nearly 4 million Ukrainians in the late 1930’s due to Ukrainian recalcitrance & reluctance to submit to Josef Stalin’s iron fist. The independence movement was strong and – as Operation Barbarossa  unfolded during the summer of 1941) thousands upon thousands of independent-minded Ukrainians flocked to the advancing German Wehrmacht as liberators...