Really, I’m kind of curious if the prevalence of Neo Nazi sympathies in Ukraine a result of mass killings of communists and other citizens/soldiers/partisans by the Nazis, leaving a skewed amount of nazi collaborators? Or is this more due to left wing parties being outlawed in modern day Ukraine and having fascist elements supported by the state?
The USSR probably would have punished collaboration, but what about those that weren’t recorded collaborators?
Are there any historical numbers from either side? I couldn’t find any myself.
The loosest estimate puts 250k Ukrainians working for the nationalists/Nazis. It was not very many and most nationalists were bourgeois or kulak peasants. 7 million Ukrainians served in the Red Army.
The cities of what is now Western Ukraine were mostly stocked with a Polish bourgeoisie and a Jewish proletariat surrounded by Ukrainian peasants.
Actually, most of the fascists in Ukraine are diaspora from the civil war and WW2. The Whites and Nazis who made deals with the US and UK, settled in the US, Canada, and Australia. They took over existing diaspora communities with deep money and have been funding Fascism in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is a major international vehicle for Ukrainian Fascism and in fact funded the SS Galician Division. They continue to fund PLAST nationalist youth camps in the diaspora and independent Ukraine. The Bourgeoisie in exile came back after the collapse and bought up the country.
Journalist Moss Robeson has a series of articles called VictimsOfCommunism and the Bandera Lobby that covers fascist diaspora of the Eastern block countries, especially Ukraine. He reports the real people who are pulling the strings in the Ukraine Neo-Colony.