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====Denazification====

====Denazification====

{{See also|Special Military Operation}}

{{See also|Operation Denazification}}

[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]

[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]

While the Soviet Union was successful in denazifying the German population of [[East Germany]] in the post-World War II period, armed resistance by Ukrainian fascists continued until 1954.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/6387532/War_against_the_UPA_1944_1954_Soviet_Counterinsurgency_Challenge_in_Western_Ukraine</ref>  The Soviet Union never was completely successful in denazifying the Ukrainian population as it had the German.  This was due to a resistance insurgency spread out over a much greater expanse. Schools, the [[civil service system]], and the military were de-nazified, and the armed fascist resistance went underground. Some moved abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora.  Display of Nazi flags, insignia, and [[holocaust denial]] were made illegal in Soviet times as it had been in [[West Germany]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Denmark]] and much of Western Europe. Since 1991 however the freedom of expression has allowed the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators to move above ground again and express a lingering [[xenophobic]] hatred for anything Russian after the experiences of the [[holodomor]] and the unjust persecution of the families of Nazi collaborators in the [[Cold War]] period by the Soviet communist regime.

While the Soviet Union was successful in denazifying the German population of [[East Germany]] in the post-World War II period, armed resistance by Ukrainian fascists continued until 1954.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/6387532/War_against_the_UPA_1944_1954_Soviet_Counterinsurgency_Challenge_in_Western_Ukraine</ref>  The Soviet Union never was completely successful in denazifying the Ukrainian population as it had the German.  This was due to a resistance insurgency spread out over a much greater expanse. Schools, the [[civil service system]], and the military were de-nazified, and the armed fascist resistance went underground. Some moved abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora.  Display of Nazi flags, insignia, and [[holocaust denial]] were made illegal in Soviet times as it had been in [[West Germany]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Denmark]] and much of Western Europe. Since 1991 however the freedom of expression has allowed the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators to move above ground again and express a lingering [[xenophobic]] hatred for anything Russian after the experiences of the [[holodomor]] and the unjust persecution of the families of Nazi collaborators in the [[Cold War]] period by the Soviet communist regime.