FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
Ukrainians dressed in
Nazi SS uniform trudge through trenches and fire model rifles in a
reconstruction of a key battle against the Soviets during World War II.
An Orthodox priest leads a ceremony for fallen soldiers of the Nazi
unit, sprinkling his blessing over several men sporting swastikas who
lower a coffin in a ritual reburial.
The scenes were part of commemorations recently of soldiers who many
Ukrainian nationalists – along with a smattering of hardcore
ultra-rightists – hail as heroes. The men they are honoring belonged to
the SS Galician division, a Nazi military unit made up mostly of
Ukrainians, which fought Soviet troops during World War II.
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