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Originally Posted by Azure
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From the tweet, here's the full link.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230925...g-post_21.html
Well worth reading. War is complicated, and it seems so was his life. While it's easy to write him off as a Nazi, reading
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Arrests continued in the city and in the villages, and people - "enemies of the people" - were taken to Siberia. This did not pass by both the schools and the bursa. One Saturday, the director of the Tkachuk school called three tenth-grade students from the bursa, and no one saw them again.
Fear of the unknown enveloped us and the entire nation. The terror of Moscow Communism raged over the Berezhansk land. The NKVD had eyes and ears everywhere. Friend to friend and brother to brother could not speak sincerely for fear of betrayal. The worst thing is that the viper who terrorized us spoke our native language. Each time, a larger part of the population became "enemies of the people".
At school, we had to sing songs of praise to our executioners, and the monthly wall newspapers that each class had to publish praised Father Stalin and the Communist Party to the heavens. In July 1941, the German army occupied
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So was he a Nazi, or did he choose to fight with the enemy of his enemy? I really hope the press actually sits and talks with the guy so we can see this as an opportunity to hear that war is messy, and lines are fuzzy. And hopefully the real press, before Ezra starts in on the guy, whips his audience into a frenzy and has them spray painting swastikas on his house.