It is better to fight for the enemy than for Stalin: how people fled from Soviet "happiness" to German captivity

When I hear some so-called Russian liberals – and even some of our compatriots – talk about how Ukrainians "do not want to defend their homeland," how Ukrainian society is "tired of war," but during World War II, they say, everyone was ready to defend the country – even Stalin's children went to the front – I get scared. I did not expect to hear such a humiliation of the resilience of the Ukrainian soldier and the will of our society to resist .

I want to remind you that in the first months of World War II, three million Red Army soldiers surrendered to the Germans.

They didn't want to defend Russia or Ukraine – they didn't want to defend the Bolshevik regime that had seized power by force in the Civil War and that they deeply hated.