Talk:Extermination battalion

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Semantics

While some authors do use "extermination battalions" as a translation for the military designation of these combat units, the more common rendering in English is as "destruction battalions." Compare Google hits: [1], [2].

Military historians (for instance, David Glantz) use "destruction" and this is the translation that generally occurs in translated Eastern European work, even of those writers not exactly friendly to Soviet-era history (see nationalist Estonian Mart Laar's War in the Woods: Estonia's Struggle for Survival, 1944-1956). We should, then, rename this article accordingly. PasswordUsername (talk) 19:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article reads like 1950s-era Soviet propaganda. Someone take these Stalinist swine out and shoot them; or at least rewrite this into a form fit for human beings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.5.201.140 (talk) 12:28, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

no one has established any such phrase at the official level, as the motto of the fighter battalions, maybe some newspapers mentioned it, but nothing more, on the whole, the article is frankly not neutral and has an obvious propaganda position, since for the most part it retells modern Baltic historiography, in largely negatively biased towards the fighter battalions, and generally having a nationalist-anti-Soviet position, the authors, in fact, tell very little about the activities of the battalions in Ukraine, Belarus or Russia, although they were formed throughout the USSR, even in the Far East, for example, in the Jewish Autonomous Region alone, about 10 extermination battalions were formed, and interestingly, the Estonian parliament recognized the extermination battalions as a criminal organization, but for some reason they do not recognize the Estonian SS legions as a criminal organization,participated in the Holocaust and the extermination policy of the Nazis and forest brothers associated with them because of whose terror , on the territory of the Baltic or tens of thousands of people, that is, 0.5-1% of the then population of the Baltic states Цйфыву (talk) 20:23, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"If the Enemy Does Not Surrender, He Will Be Annihilated",no one has established any such phrase at the official level, as the motto of the fighter battalions, maybe some newspapers mentioned it, but nothing more, on the whole Цйфыву (talk) 20:25, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ambiguity

Ambiguity. --5.165.59.132 (talk) 10:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Western Ukraine

The phrase is biased, propabaly vengeance should be also mentioned. The Polish source is biased, I would rather consult Motyka's books.Xx236 (talk) 07:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]