The post also featured a famous image from the 1941 Lviv pogroms, during which Jewish men and women were massacred by their own neighbors.
Brief History of the Pogroms Leading to the Nazi Rise in Power
For historical context, just before WWII, Lviv (Lwow) was an incredibly culturally and religiously diverse city. Government leaders, influenced by the USSR, distributed flyers with the help of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the first days of the German invasion. This form of media instructed the population: “Don’t throw away your weapons yet. Take them up. Destroy the enemy. Moscow, the Hungarians, the Jews—these are your enemies. Destroy them.”
Upon further reading and understanding of these horrific incidents, Carano was not devaluing the horrors of the Holocaust. Rather, she was bringing light to the fact that the public at that period in time was easily swayed into turning on their neighbor by corrupt leaders. As she mentioned in her post, prior to getting to this horrific point in history, leaders needed to sow discord and hatred among the people. Only by doing that could average individuals commit such unspeakable horrors against their neighbors.
