Comments by "Sergei" (@sergeikhripun) on "Hitlers Ukrainian Fighters: 14th Waffen Division | World War II" video.

You forgot that Galicia The Soviet Union got after the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact used to belong to Russia before. It was annexed by Poland during the war between Poland and the Soviet Union prior. The French and Brits couldn't have stopped Hitler if they wanted it and Poland refused to give a free pass through Poland for the Red Army to confront the Nazi army. The Western version of history includes a lot of cherry-picking.
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@bohdan___5963 There was no country called Ukraine before 1991, and you just found out about it one second ago. Ukraine is a made-up country. Lenin gave Ukraine all Eastern and Southern parts, so most of the population there is ethnic Russians. Stalin gave Ukraine Galicia, which used to belong to Russia, but then it went to Poland after the Soviet-Polish War in the 1920s and then went back to the Soviet Union after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. Crimea has belonged to Russia since 18th century, since Catherine the Great, Transcarpathia belonged to Hungary. Poland and Finland used to be a part of Russia; you just found it out now. The only time when Ukraine prospered was when it was part of the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union's collapse, Ukraine lost 50% of it's GDP. Before SMO, it was considered the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe. The only parts of Ukraine that will prosper now are the areas that went to Russia, but again, Hillary Clinton said they want to turn Ukraine into Afghanistan. And stop pretending you care about Ukraine, you didn't know about Ukraine and couldn't find it on the map before 2022.
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@ Early 20th Century: Collapse of Empires and Competing Nationalisms • World War I (1914–1918): Galicia became a battleground between Austria-Hungary and Russia. Russian troops occupied eastern Galicia in 1914–1915 and imposed Russification policies before being pushed out. • 1918: With the collapse of Austria-Hungary at the end of the war, Western Ukrainians declared the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) with its capital in Lviv. • This led to the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918–1919). Poles seized Lviv, and by 1919 they controlled most of Galicia. After the Polish-Soviet War, Poland secured international recognition of its control over Galicia in 1923. Interwar Period (1919–1939): Polish Rule and Ukrainian Discontent • Eastern Galicia was part of the Second Polish Republic. Ukrainians were a large minority but faced discrimination in education, language use, and land ownership. • The Polish government promoted Polonization. Ukrainian institutions were restricted or shut down, including universities. • In response, Ukrainian nationalism grew more radical. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was formed in 1929, promoting independence through militant means. • Tensions between Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews intensified in this period. World War II and Soviet Takeover • 1939: Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, including Galicia. It annexed the region into the Ukrainian SSR. • 1941–1944: Nazi Germany occupied Galicia. The German occupation saw the Holocaust, which decimated the Jewish population, and brutal warfare, including mass killings and ethnic violence between Ukrainians and Poles (notably in Volhynia and eastern Galicia). • 1944: The Soviet Red Army retook Galicia and reestablished Soviet control.
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*1941–1944: Nazi Germany occupied Galicia. The German occupation saw the Holocaust, which decimated the Jewish population, and brutal warfare, including mass killings and ethnic violence between Ukrainians and Poles (notably in Volhynia and eastern Galicia). Volhynia massacre was done by Ukrainian nationalists or Banderites(Stepan Bandera, who is a national hero in Ukraine now, was their leader) who aligned with the mustached man during WW2 and they killed about 100k Poles during WW2. The biggest slaughter of Jews during WW2 was in Babi Yar near Kiev, where about 30k were massacred. The massacre was done by the same nationalists. There is a statue of Stepan Bandra in Lvov now and there are streets named after him, after 2014 he was declared a national hero of Ukraine. Funny part is that Poland is OK with all that.
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“Following the Munich Agreement in 1938, Poland annexed the Cieszyn Silesia region of Czechoslovakia, which included the town of Český Těšín and surrounding areas. This was after Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland, and later Hungary annexed territory in southern Slovakia. Poland also took minor border areas in northern Slovakia. The annexation of Czechoslovakia was a gradual process, with the First Slovak Republic declaring independence in March 1939, followed by Germany's full occupation and creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.”
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@ It was Cieszyn Silesia region of Czechoslovakia. Polish leader Josef Pilsitsky was the moustached man’s BFF. The failed Austrian painter attended the military funeral of Jesef Pelsutsky. The West only knows a few things about WW2: Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Land Lease, D-Day and “Saving Private Ryan” which was fiction loosely borrowed from real events. How many Private Ryans were in the Soviet Union? Probably thousands.
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