• iopq@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They collaborated with the Nazis because the Soviets invaded and occupied the country twenty years earlier.

    They both fought against the Germans and the Soviets to try to go back to having independence

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      1 year ago

      The monument, in a Montgomery County community known for its synagogues, is dedicated to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel — the Nazi military branch often referred to simply as “the SS.”

      Fuck them and fuck whitewashing.

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        Not to be that guy but the SS was also the foreign legions of Germany because they weren’t allowed in the Wehrmacht (normal military) and SS had many people that just wanted to fight the communists.