Thanks Cossack - I will indeed take a break and may even watch the Russian Language version of 'Iron and Blood - The legend of Taras Bulba' later :-) Good job it is sub-tiled though! I only know of the atrocities committed in the Ukraine from the book "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Very good book. Treats the subject seriously but wrapped in a very humourous story. Well worth a read if you haven't done so already.

As I said, my Grandfather was from Krupotkin on the Kuban. My Grandmother, however, was from Bialystok - Which is in the North East of Poland, very close to the Ukraine and Belarus. Oddly enough, and in keeping with the thread, although Grandad was a Russian Orthodox Cossack, during the war he did a lot to help the ghetto-ed Jewish population of Bialystok. I believe it now has a high Moslem population and I suspect if it had been the same in the 1940's he would have done just the same.

Thread drift over.

Cheers

DtG