That's why I find Sztoggy's intimation that he'd switch sides if it weren't convenient so odious.
what if...something like you were Russian, but living in Germany in 1940 ish and you jioined the German army, but then later they invaded Russia. Would that make a difference?
or to make it even cloudier, suppose you were a German and you thought you were part of a master race so you fought for them, but then after a while the scales fell from your eyes as you began to see what was really going on. Would some sort of re-alignment of your priorities be equally odius?