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The source of this report, Russian state media, is very very suspect. They also very recently tried to paint Ukraine as a country that needed freeing from Nazi influence to justify waging war.
Unless I see this shared and verified by some other news outlets I'm going to think this is just propoganda.
These other baltic states have been supporting Ukraine and offering safe haven to dissidents from Russia and Belarus. This report just looks like a Russian smear campaign to me right now. What do other people think?
@Speckle on the other side, what they report is quite consistent with the archival materials in Yad Vashem and USHMM.
If stories from my immediate family and relations are to believed, that's not the case. People ran from soviets because they were stealing everything and killing anyone they didn't like, including jews. Germans mostly weren't involved at all, except military control wise.
I guess there's always assholes everywhere, some working to advance nazi goals. Some betraying everyone for survival. Some working for soviets because they were too stupid to see they'll eventually lose everything to Stalin, despite the propaganda ("to the people"). "Brother fought brother" as the saying goes. Overall, the idea was to exploit the side less harmful to get rid of the more harmful side, 3rd Reich was ironically the less harmful in this picture. Soviets were just all around inhumane all the time.