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The west of Ukraine was full of collaborators in WW2
Very true, and the Ukrainians were among the most brutal of the Nazi's concentration camp guards. They committed an endless stream of atrocities.
News articles are difficult to find on search engines now but Ukraine has always been riddled with corruption and extremists on both sides, Nothing has changed.
Ukrainian rightists burn alive 39 at Odessa union building
Some 1,000 Ukrainian rightists, led by the notorious Right Sector, surrounded, stormed, and burned the House of Trade Unions in Odessa last Friday, killing 39 pro-Russia demonstrators in the building.www.peoplesworld.org
I'm gonna need a better source for that story than a hardcore socialist website. The Beeb's account is a good one.
It remains unclear how the fire started on the third floor. Pictures clearly showed pro-Ukrainians throwing Molotov cocktails towards the floor.
But Serhiy said he saw someone "on the third floor throw a Molotov cocktail through the closed window. However, the glass didn't break and a fire started inside".
People struggled to get out of the smoke-filled floor. One survivor told Russia Today: "We couldn't go down, we were seeing people from other floors being brought down and then those rioters down there attacked them like a pack of wolves."
But other eyewitness reports, for example in the Kyiv Post, said pro-Ukrainian activists rescued dozens of people from the burning building.
Some people got to ledges and were helped by ambulance ladders. Some fell. Some people were reported to have shouted "die" as people fell.
One of those who had been at the building, Anatoly, said the people inside were not "pro-Russian activists".
This was a messy fight between ideological rivals, sparked by a pro-Russian mob ambushing local Ukrainian football fans. The violence became a riot, some of the pro-Russian mob took refuge in a building, and the building caught fire. Nobody's sure how the fire started, or who was responsible. What we do know is that there were good and bad actors on both sides. This was not a case of Ukrainian 'rightists' rounding up a bunch of Russians and deliberately burning them alive.
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