In many parts of Ukraine and Western Russia, the villagers actually welcomed the Nazis since they thought that the Germans are there to liberate them from the god-hating communists. (Village people and many of the urban folks in the former USSR are still deeply religious).



What happened was just the opposite. The Nazis started rounding up the men and shooting them, since they believed that the Slavs are an Asian race. A large part of the local population soon took up guerrilla warfare and escaped to the forests. The farmlands and factories no longer had ways to maintain sufficient manpower.

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