1944165438+1October, Soviet troops occupied the Transcarpathian Mountains in Czechoslovakia, and Ukraine achieved reunification for the first time in history. This achievement cannot be denied by the most extreme Ukrainian nationalists!
When the Soviet-German War broke out, Germans first entered Ukraine as "Ukrainian liberators", and were initially welcomed by Ukrainian nationalists such as Stepan Bandera who opposed the Soviet Union. Subconsciously, like Pu Yi in China, they hoped to build an independent Ukrainian country with the help of foreign enemies, but such an attempt was outrageous in the eyes of the Germans. It is natural for the Ukrainian government to exist briefly in Lviv and Bandera, and it is logical for the Germans to take the road of anti-Soviet and anti-German.
Ukraine is not only the residence of Ukrainians, but also other nationalities, such as Russia, Germany, Poland and Cossack. During World War II in Ukraine, the biggest ethnic conflict did not occur between Ukrainians and Russians, nor between Ukrainians and Germans, but between two relatively weak ethnic groups-Ukraine and Poland. The Warren tragedy is a definite proof.
Historically, pro-Russian (Soviet Union) eastern Ukraine and anti-Russian (Soviet Union) western Ukraine are incomparable. The German invasion of eastern Ukraine, in addition to being attached to the enemy's Don Cossack, also caused widespread resistance from local people, such as the Young Guards in Donbass. Half of Latvia fought for the Soviet Union and the other half for Germany. This period of history is the real World War II Ukraine!