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Latkes for the Holidays!

Now your Jewish sims can share these delicious little potato pancakes with their goyim friends, which is how I first experienced them.

And it's a great chance to cover some popular Russian disinformation campaigns, so let's do that.

Ukraine is not a Nazi state.

It is not now, and never has been in the past.

Yes. The western portions of Ukraine fought alongside Nazis in WW2. The country had previously been occupied in part by Poland and the Soviet Union before being occupied by Nazi forces. Ukrainians who wanted their independence were led to believe that compliance with the occupying Nazis might be the best way to be free from their historic occupiers.

It was a deal with the devil, but the Ukrainians were desperate. The country was ravaged by a famine during the 1930s which was artificially created by Soviet policies instructing government actors to steal food and starve the population. Official Russian sources still deny the extent of the destruction, but it's estimated that the Holodomor killed 10 million Ukrainians between 1930 and 1933. The gentiles of Ukraine sold out their Jewish neighbors for the chance to escape a genocidal regime that wanted to kill all of them for being Ukrainian.

The country had a large and thriving Jewish population that was targeted by Ukrainians seeking to appease their German occupiers. They committed massacres, staffed concentration camps, and participated in all manner of war crimes. It isn't responsible to sugar coat, minimize, or rationalize that kind of horror. It happened and there is no justification.

But it was all for nothing. The Nazi government shut down the Ukrainians attempt at a sovereign government, allowing only the partial devolution of powers granted by empires to the nations they subjugate. After the war the country fell back into the grasp of the Soviet Union. Any progress towards Ukrainian independence was erased.

So there was occupation and there was collusion with the Nazis. If you feel like that warrants calling Ukraine a Nazi state, you gotta go look at what happened in France when it was occupied by the Nazis.

But what about the Nazis in Ukraine now, you ask. And my response is 'But what about the Nazis in America now?'

The proliferation of right-wing fascism isn't a Ukraine problem, it's a global problem right now. And in the scheme of things, Ukraine is working harder to expand rights and embrace a diverse citizenry than any country that's already in NATO and the EU. Especially the USA.