Talk:Jewish–Ukrainian relations in Eastern Galicia

Between the First and Second World Wars
I think some clarification is required in the third paragraph of this section. Is the 1937 town of "Brześć" called Brest, Belarus in 2011, or is "Brześć" a town in post-1945 Poland? – Jwkozak91 (talk) 02:52, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Re. Antisemitism under the Germans: A Bit of a Whitewash
The false belief among Western Ukrainians and others occupied by the Soviets before Barbarossa that Jews played a prominent role in the Soviet machinery of oppression did not cause nor even aggravate antisemitism. It was just one more expression, among many, of a preexisting antisemitism. This confusion of cause and effect is an ever fashionable way of rationalizing Antisemitism. There was no empirical basis for the belief that the antisemitic Stalinist regime of the period was in some way favoring the Jews. Then again too many Galicians didn't need any such basis, just as people from other regions subjected to Soviet occupation didn't. They were already antisemitic to perfection. Soviet occupation and its brutality angered them. Malicious cowards that they were they vented that anger against minorities. Especially when they had German encouragement to do so. Soz101 (talk) 21:50, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This is just swell, but we need WP:RS, not WP:SOAPBOX.--Galassi (talk) 00:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC)