800,000 Russians were fighting on the German side during WW2. English.

Russian government calls Ukrainians “fascists” referring to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, members of which fought for Ukraine’s independence against Soviet Bolsheviks during the Second World War. In fact, “fascists in Ukraine” is the main argument of Putin’s propaganda, with which he brainwashes the heads of Russian citizens, who now think that Ukrainians are evil and who gladly send their sons to die in Ukraine fighting with so-called “fascists”. It is interesting, though, that Russians somehow “forget” t