Today I opened a magazine in supermarket and the hate from this time is STILL alive!
In Estonia things had been better that we had had an independent state for 20 years, so escaping the repressions before 1940(BTW, the Ukrainians themselves consider Russians worst than Germans on the genocide against Ukrainians front: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor ), but after the WW II it was tough. Many people went to the forests to hide. And some of them DID kill communist supporters and their families.
Anyway - there was a story about a man who was hiding in forest till 1952 and was then killed by Russian soldiers. Someone betrayed him. His son - an old man himself - suspects a woman. And he keeps asking this woman even NOW. There was transcription and even if the woman denied being the informer, she also attacked the son of the killed "forest brother" as those hiding in forests were known: "Your father was a killer and you also want to kill, only you cannot now!"
What is so depressing about it is that for so many people the WW II is still not over, it still keeps hurting and fanning hate.
I sometimes wonder - is it mentally easier for victims of Nazi repressions, as they have the Nurnberg and the laws to assure them that it was not THEIR fault they got repressed. The victims of communists still hear: "Well, Stalin helped to fight against Hitler (even if Stalin WAS an ally of Hitler for a while and the most bitter irony is that some people got sent to prison for being critical against Hitler - who was Soviet ally after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact - and when the war started those people remained in prisons and were not allowed to fight against Hitler, as they were jailed as traitors!), hence the victims of Stalin must have done something to cause the repressions." In case of Ukrainians it is pften pointed out that they were anti-Semites (you may check out the scandal of helen Demidenko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Darville . I have read the book and what baffles me is that for me it seemed to be an anti-Ukrainian book)
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In Estonia things had been better that we had had an independent state for 20 years, so escaping the repressions before 1940(BTW, the Ukrainians themselves consider Russians worst than Germans on the genocide against Ukrainians front: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor ), but after the WW II it was tough. Many people went to the forests to hide. And some of them DID kill communist supporters and their families.
Anyway - there was a story about a man who was hiding in forest till 1952 and was then killed by Russian soldiers. Someone betrayed him. His son - an old man himself - suspects a woman. And he keeps asking this woman even NOW. There was transcription and even if the woman denied being the informer, she also attacked the son of the killed "forest brother" as those hiding in forests were known: "Your father was a killer and you also want to kill, only you cannot now!"
What is so depressing about it is that for so many people the WW II is still not over, it still keeps hurting and fanning hate.
I sometimes wonder - is it mentally easier for victims of Nazi repressions, as they have the Nurnberg and the laws to assure them that it was not THEIR fault they got repressed. The victims of communists still hear: "Well, Stalin helped to fight against Hitler (even if Stalin WAS an ally of Hitler for a while and the most bitter irony is that some people got sent to prison for being critical against Hitler - who was Soviet ally after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact - and when the war started those people remained in prisons and were not allowed to fight against Hitler, as they were jailed as traitors!), hence the victims of Stalin must have done something to cause the repressions." In case of Ukrainians it is pften pointed out that they were anti-Semites (you may check out the scandal of helen Demidenko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Darville . I have read the book and what baffles me is that for me it seemed to be an anti-Ukrainian book)