As missiles strike Ukraine, Israel won't sell its vaunted air defense

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64. What did you expect the lucky ones not literally starving to death to do to stop Stalin's pogroms?

Stalin had no qualms about killing anyone who opposed him, and did so by the millions in Ukraine. Ukraine was directly ruled by Stalin; Vichy France was not directly ruled by Hitler. France was ruled by its own French Vichy government.

On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice with Germany, and by July 9 the French parliament had voted 569 to 80 to abandon the previous government and give Chief of State Marshal Philippe Pétain, a World War I hero, full and extraordinary powers. The Vichy government was born. Pétain blamed French Jews and communists for France's losses to Germany. He sought to right the liberal policies of the prior French government, and to that end he enacted prohibitions against divorce, abortion was made a capital offense, the press was censored, phone calls were monitored and critics of the government were imprisoned. None of that was required by Hitler. Pétain ruled with absolute power until 1942, when Germany took over the previously unoccupied “Free Zone” in southern France and began managing affairs more directly. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vichy-government-france-world-war-ii-willingly-collaborated-nazis-180967160/

Ukraine did not have its own government which voted to adopt Stalin's authoritarian, genocidal policies. Sure, every country has anti-semites, but Ukraine during the pogroms was not comparable to Vichy France.