The archives name thousands of former informants who spied on citizens for the state security services during decades of one-party rule. The prime minister said “many families will now face difficult information.”

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    7 days ago

    I know you’re well meaning and all, but that’s revisionist to say the least. The Soviet Union executed Nazi Germans and their collaborators in the hundreds of thousands.

    Half of all Holocaust victims were Soviet citizens because it wasn’t directed just at minorities like Jews and Roma. Nazis were trying to exterminate all Slavs. They depopulated large swaths of the Ukraine.

    When Ukrainian soldiers wear SS insignias it has a lot more personal meaning to Russians.