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Jews also fought for Hitler during WW II, so I don't exactly see your point. Additionally, considering Ukraine enacted a language law in 2019 and a racial law in 2021 and that specific group is part of the National Guard, it should give you something to think about.

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> Jews also fought for Hitler during WW II, so I don't exactly see your point

I'm going to have to ask for a source here. Jews formed ghetto polices, and Sonderkommando units, that's true. But that was done under duress in terrible circumstances, and certainly isn't "fighting".

"Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" by Bryan Mark Rigg.

Googling, there is also an interesting article here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ell...

The whole article is about how conflicted these people were. Also, the details of what was happening to the Jews only surfaced at the end of the war. Before that Hitler was peddling stories of shipping them off to an island on the Bahamas, and broad public antisemitism wasn't limited to Germany in the 1930s, so a lot of people were fine with this.

Uhm, did you actually read the whole article or did you have different words than I had? The most relevant part is even pretty early in the article. Also, it's a fact that Hebrew is restriced too, just like Russian, Polish etc etc etc.

Apologies, I was reading a review of Rigg's work from 1996: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-mn-12209-...

Ah, that has to have been just part of it then, as the book was released in 2002.

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