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Originally Posted by timun
It's not unlike the Finns, really. They fought a defensive war against the Soviets, then fought alongside the Nazis when the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa, then switched sides again and fought against the Nazis. They had their own reasons for doing what they did. However, the big difference is the Finns didn't participate in the Nazis' other genocidal activities, never handing over Jews and people from other ethnic groups to the Nazis. The Ukrainian nationalists, generally, did.
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The Finns were also scrupulous only to recover territory that the Soviets had taken from them in the Winter War. They did not advance into Russia proper (even though the Germans implored them to), let alone join up to fight for the Nazis in other countries the way SS Waffen units like Galicia did.