Neo-Nazism’s rise in Ukraine is due to the silent approval of Ukraine’s political and military elites who prefer to turn a blind eye because they rely on the far-right for their military potential, Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko tells Natylie Baldwin. By Natylie Baldwin Special to Consor
I’m surprised that this article doesn’t engage more with the current war. Given that Russia has been accusing Ukraine of being a ‘nazi state’ since day one, I’d be surprised if that hadn’t changed the level of support for this kind of politics. I can imagine how it could go either way: increasing because of the threat to Ukraine’s national identity, or decreasing to not prove the Russians right and to rally around Zelenskyy, who is overall a moderate. I do notice that all of the pictures in this article are from before the war. It’s also weird they don’t mention that Azov were more-or-less wiped out in the opening stages of the invasion at Mariupol.
Azov were more-or-less wiped out in the opening stages of the invasion at Mariupol.
Got a source on this?
UA has integrated neo-Nazis into the upper levels of their military and seem to make decisions based on their ideas. They have increased funding for groups like Azov, who have been running little Hitler Youth camps for years, and have recently integrated them into a larger and more powerful Nazi force.
Thanks, I hadn’t heard of Baxi before. Do you have any links where I can read some more about any of this?
Sorry that was a typo, it was supposed to say Nazi. Here’s a UA propaganda outlet describing the reorg: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51054
Pro Russia poster. Never a bad word said about Russia or Putin.
@[email protected] Just balancing out all the pro-Ukrainian propaganda. There are always 2 sides and people deserve to know ALL the facts.
Then lets see articles that show ALL the facts.
Seems like sometimes one country looks better with ALL the facts about both. But keeping one country with bad things out seems like Propaganda.
In the West, since the start of the SMO we have been deluged with Ukrainian propaganda. There is plenty around, so dig your head out of the sand! We’re the most indoctrinated society on earth!
“Two wrongs make a right”.
People are best served by the facts, not competing biased opinions. What they deserve is another thing altogether…
i used to struggle to understand why americans refused to see that the ukrainian far right is so empowered until i came to lemmy and see the election results; now i understand that we’ve been punching left for so long that the the right seems reasonable.
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You, Steve, are a full blown nincompoop
@freagle
Because you don’t agree! Whatever floats yer boat, grasshopper. Always good having an intelligent conversation with you!You’re a nincompoop not because I disagree with you but because 1) you thought free speech was the domain of the left and 2) you think the center right is the new left.
These are both demonstrably inaccurate statements about reality and represent a form of vibes-based politics, quite commonplace, wherein ignorance is considered to be a position from which respectable opinions can be formed. It’s poppycock. All of it. Your skull is full of mashed potatoes.
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I have no idea what your potatoes are saying to you but you don’t know anything about me. Check out my comment history and you’ll see I am not sock puppet
What is that website? Smells like Russian propaganda to me. Lemmy seems to get overrun with ot lately, unfortunately.
Baldwin: Can you explain what you see as the misuse of the holocaust and WWII by the Russian government and nationalists?
… Havryshko: The memory of World War II is weaponized by different political actors for political and military purposes. For example, when Putin began his angry speech on the night of February 24, 2022, he emphasized that one of the goals of the so-called “special military operation” was the “denazification” of Ukraine.
Top Russian propagandists frequently refer to the Ukrainian government as a “Nazi regime” and call Ukrainian soldiers “Nazis.”
From the article. The author is a western academic, a historian of Holocaust studies. Read.
@[email protected] It’s called Journalism. If you’d bother to look, you’d realize that Pulitzer is mentioned on the website, and you wouldn’t have to ask such a profoundly silly question.
If you want to judge the validity of an article by how sleek and pretty the website looks you can go back to reddit. Plenty of MSM slop straight from the state department.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
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History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IVDon’t believe your eyes, Putin has paid off your eyeballs and puppeteered all western media right up until 2020
I mean. The war began in 2014 with Russia and Ukraine
