Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
Thank you for posting this. It puts the whole thing into proper perspective.
It's rather well documented that during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Germans invading Ukraine were initially treated as liberators - such was the hatred of Stalin and his brutal treatment of the Ukraine people. Stalin even had a large dam breached in Ukraine to slow the German advance - without bothering to warn the Ukrainian people living downstream - meaning hundreds were drowned in the resultant flooding.
Of course, it didn't take long for the Nazi's to demonstrate they were even more brutal than Stalin, and that initial goodwill rapidly turned to rabid hate.