My Ukrainian grandfather was part of the SS black skull brigade and his call sign was “Jew Slayer” and now you are all telling me he’s a fascist? Wow. He fought for YOUR freedom to be free from Putin style fascism and now he’s the bad guy. It really hurts.
It’s called collaborationism. Countries that are invaded often have people on the inside of that country who side with the invaders, for opportunist, ideological, and/or material reasons.
Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine - Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014
Part 1: A brief history of the OUN-B nazi-collaborationist faction from which current day neo nazis are descended (CW: images of pogroms and holocaust)
Part 2: A brief history of the OUN-B nazi-collaborationist faction from which current day neo nazis are descended (CW: images of pogroms and holocaust)
PDF of declassified CIA operation aerodynamic which leveraged ukrainian nazi collaborators against the soviet union after WW2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) was a World War II Nazi Germany military formation made up predominantly of military volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia, later also with some Slovaks. Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the Lvov–Sandomierz offensive, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army and surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945.