It’s likely not an uncommon attitude among Eastern Europeans, given the relevant history. I’ve heard similar sentiments expressed by Czech and Polish people before.
I agree that in this context it seems nonsensical, though. Ukrainian national socialists wanting to take down communist monuments is quite overdetermined; as the monuments are not only symbols of an ideology that they strongly oppose, but also of a foreign state that was an occupying force in Ukraine in living memory (and is an occupying force right now, depending on your interpretation of the continuity between the USSR and the Russian Federation).
Well this perspective is just blatantly nonsense.
It’s likely not an uncommon attitude among Eastern Europeans, given the relevant history. I’ve heard similar sentiments expressed by Czech and Polish people before.
I agree that in this context it seems nonsensical, though. Ukrainian national socialists wanting to take down communist monuments is quite overdetermined; as the monuments are not only symbols of an ideology that they strongly oppose, but also of a foreign state that was an occupying force in Ukraine in living memory (and is an occupying force right now, depending on your interpretation of the continuity between the USSR and the Russian Federation).
Agreed. Hitler was total amateur. Commies killed much more people and actually managed to terrorize people for almost a century.