In WW2 were many Ukrainians pro nazi?

Indeed they were. The German advance through the Ukraine, at times was at 70 miles per day, and you can't do that against much opposition. A German I knew had fond memories of his time billeted with farming families in Ukrainian villages. He said they honestly thought they had come to the land of 'milk and honey', because the villagers would come out when they arrived and offer them bowls filled with exactly those things. Then, they would point out the local commissars, and wait expectantly till he and his friends had shot them. Bang bang. The only thing they were warned about by their officers, was that the places they lived in would be dirty, and he said that people were very dirty, but they were very friendly. They were in some places a long time, and helped with the farming. It is there that he learnt to farm himself. The locals taught them all the tips of how to live off the country ~ for example when he killed a hare, and hung it outside to keep it from going off ~ they warned him that this method would not do, and showed him how to dig down and put it in frozen ground. This idyllic rural lifestyle stopped when the spoilsports with black uniforms and little silver flashes came into an area. They were not so popular with anybody, and did not go much on fraternal relations between nations etc.

After the war, in which he was highly decorated, he ended up in a POW camp in the UK, where he settled and made a prosperous living putting all his agricultural skills to good use.

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I may be misleading you here. Although I believe that he was at some point in the Ukraine, it is likely that perhaps most of his time was spent in Russia, as he always referred only to the 'Russians', and got as far as the outskirts of Moscow.

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Here is a monument to the Ukranian SS in Lviv:

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Ukraine was not conquered by Russia. Ukraine willingly joined the USSR. However, the Holodomor was a horrific event so when the Germans came in they were welcomed with open arms.... guess what happened to those people when the Soviets came back through...

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Yes very they saw them as Liberators

i see Ukranians Know as Much about their History as the americans do which is Not Much your national pride makes you look very silly

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Waffen SS “Galizien” (Halychyna) Division and Other Pro-Nazi Forces

14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galizien (1st Ukrainian)

14-та Стрілецька Дивізія Зброї СС; 14-ta Striletska Divizia Zbroii SS

Before World War II many Ukrainians in Galicia regarded Hitler’s Third Reich as the only force capable of facilitating the establishment of an independent Ukraine in Galicia, in other words, a state free of Soviet or Polish rule. These particular Galician Ukrainians were virulently anti-Soviet and saw the Nazis as possible liberators from what they regarded as the Soviet yoke

When war broke out in 1939 and the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland (including Polish-occupied western Ukraine), various Ukrainian nationalist groups set up military units to fight the Soviet Red Army.

One such was the Nachtingal brigade. In early 1943, when the Nazis were suffering growing losses in the war with the USSR, the German Governor of occupied Galicia, Dr. Otto von Wächter, gave the formal order to create a Galician Waffen SS division to take part in regular combat on the Eastern Front. The 14th Voluntary Division SS Galizien was announced on 28 April 1943 and set up the following month.

Very, very few Ukrainians were pro-Nazi. However, some did join the German army to fight the Soviets, not because they were pro-Nazi but because they were anti-Stalin and anti-communism.

Ukrainians still remembered the " Holomodor" when millions of Ukrainians were intentionally starved to death by Stalin during his "forced collectivization" of the Ukraine in 1932/33. They believed anything would be better than living under Stalin.

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Not a single one.

ALL of them were patriots.

They had enemies on both sides - Soviet Russia and nazi Germany.

They had to fight them both. This historical fiction of alleged pro nazi Ukrainians was favourable for some political circles, to provoke a split of Ukrainian nation.

Ukraine was a part of USSR (Union of Soviet socialist repupbic) until 1991.

In the times of WW2 Soivet regime was massively killing its citizens as well as Germans.

According nazi doctrine slavic people were refered to as "Untermenshen" - people of second rate.

By no means it was a nazi plan to became allies with Ukraine. Nazi Germany was commiting a genocide on Ukrainian people sending them to concetration camps and killing afterward.

Belarus and Ukraine took the major attack of nazi army.

These countries were the main battlefield of the soviet army during the world war 2.

Tens of millions of people died during the war.

Around 80%+ of Ukrainian population(not sure of exact figures) were lost. Almost all the nation got completely wiped out.

Arguably, Soviet Ukraine made the most important contribution in defeating the nazi agressor.

The Ukrainians were pragmatic and did enough to survive under either regime !