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Scootaloo

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2. The characterization seems legitimate

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Jan 2, 2015, 05:50 PM

Jan 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

He was wrapped up tight with the Nazis - an ally of conveniance, but an ally nevertheless - and seemed to strongly favor the eradication of slavs and poles.

Which is odd given Ukranians are a slavic people, but, y'know, they wouldn't be the first to ignore reality in favor of nationalism and ethnic supremacism. They certainly weren't the last

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