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On 5/1/14 5:21 PM, Ralph Johansen wrote:
Similarly, the fact that Ukraine has always had separatist tendencies and that these have constantly been reactive: that is, backed by strongly reactionary powers and even worse. The Ukrainian Orthodox clergy, whose sacred city is Kiev, has played a determining role in all this, and it goes without saying that it is the most reactionary on Earth, a megalomaniac centre of Imperial Orthodoxy. This separatism at certain moments reached extremes that no one could forget, particularly not the Russian people, knowing that the vast mass of the Nazi-armed and organised armies coming from Russian territory were Ukrainian. The Vlasov army was a Ukrainian army.
Do people take the trouble to fact-check the bullshit they forward to the list? You don't have to go to the library. Just look at the Wikipedia link that comes up when you google "Vaslov army".
There was no "Vaslov army". "Adolf Hitler permitted the idea of the Russian Liberation Army to circulate in propaganda literature so long as no real formations of the sort were permitted." (Wiki)
When they finally got the green light to form divisions made up of Russians, they were only deployed in the West as part of the Wehrmacht because Hitler feared that they would be susceptible to local anti-Nazi feelings in the East, especially in a place like Ukraine that the Nazis turned into a graveyard. As I have pointed out on multiple occasions, polls taken in Ukraine indicate that 98 percent of those polled regard the Red Army positively while only 2 percent feel the same way about the Bandera militias.
Those in "Vaslov's army" who did fight in the West were worthless to the Third Reich. "A number of such soldiers were on guard in Normandy on D-Day, and without the equipment or the motivation to fight the Allies, most promptly surrendered." (Wiki)
In fact, the ROA or Russian Liberation Army did not come into existence as such until Heinrich Himmler convinced Hitler to permit the formation of 10 divisions. By February 1945 only one division had come into existence. "The only active combat the Russian Liberation Army undertook against the Red Army was by the Oder on 11 April 1945, done largely at the insistence of Himmler as a test of the army's reliability. After three days, the outnumbered first division had to retreat." (Wiki)
Alan Badiou is a horse's ass. I won't comment on Ralph Johansen's carelessness in forwarding his junk except to say that if Ralph was still practicing law, I'd hate to be in his client's shoes.
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