What Putin tries to hide ...


The brutal honesty of this research revealed that hundreds of thousands of Russians – perhaps more than a million – actively collaborated with Nazi Germany. They served as soldiers in German uniform, as police auxiliaries hunting partisans and Jews, as administrators implementing Nazi policies, as propagandists for Hitler’s cause. They did so willingly, systematically, and on a scale that dwarfs collaboration in any other occupied territory.

https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/75671

Russian administrators ran occupation governments across vast territories. They collected taxes for the Germans, organized forced labor roundups, distributed rations, and maintained civil order under Nazi authority. Many were enthusiastic participants who saw opportunity in collaboration. Russian mayors, district administrators, and bureaucrats actively facilitated German policies, including the brutal Ostarbeiter program that deported millions of Soviet civilians to slave labor in Germany. Russian collaborators compiled the lists, organized the transports, and hunted down those who tried to hide.

Russian civilians served as informers, denouncing partisans, Jews, and Communist officials. Russian translators and propagandists produced material promoting Nazi ideology. Russian businessmen profited from confiscated Jewish property.