I may comment on #101 later, SJN, but quickly would like to point out the gigantic ‘cake n’ eat it too’ straddle in your concluding sentence’s parenthetical. It’s the ‘appeal to authority’ form of logical fallacy, that “there are those” who play down the fact of incidents of Hitlerite local anti-semitic thugs in German-occupied USSR, including Ukraine. By sentence contruction, you imply an ideological intent behind a covering-up that arguably doesn’t even exist.

For example, if one doesn’t often hear much about the USSR’s WWII pro-Hitlerites from anti-Stalinists, one also doesn’t hear much from pro-Stalinists about the mere-decade-previous Ukrainian Genocide, AKA the Holodomor.