In my opinion both Nazi germany and the Soviet onion were equally "evil". But history, particulary of that era, is different in everyones eyes. For uswho live in a country boardering with Russia the history is especialy tricky since the societ version is complete bull**** and the real history is too inconvenient for most western powers to be widely acknowleged. Iv noticed several posts refering to SS and SS troops, but one must understand to draw a line between the Waffen-SS (exept for the Totenkopf part which did infact monitor concentration camps) and SS, since one was an elite military organization, though it mainly concisted of nazis, while the other was the organisation responsible for the atrocities, secret policing and such. Another thing about the Waffen-SS are the Baltic SS Legions, in which my grandfather fought, those were recognized as armed forces of coutries where the men came from during the Nuremberg trials, a fact that is allso conveniently looked past. I know from my granfather statements that allmost all men who voulenteered and those who were later conscripted only joined to keep the russians out of our country, when the germans withdrew, most deserted, but those who remained were shipped off from one killing field to the next. But ennough for now, dont want to rant too much about the history of ym own country during WW2
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