Posted on 03/08/2022 9:17:54 AM PST by JonPreston
Ukraine really does have a far-right problem, and it’s not a fiction of Kremlin propaganda. And it’s well past time to talk about it.
Ukraine’s far-right is like a hydra, with ugly heads that pop up far too frequently. Just within the last few weeks, an American-born cabinet minister thanked a group of violent neo-Nazi “activists” for their services, a soldier was photographed wearing a Nazi death’s head patch right behind President Petro Poroshenko and almost 1,500 neo-Nazis and friends threw a two-day Hitler-salute-fest.
Ukraine’s notorious Azov movement keeps growing. Since it was created in 2014 to fight Russian-led forces in the east, it made news by accepting openly neo-Nazi members into its rank. Now the Azov Battalion has become an official Ukrainian National Guard regiment. In 2016 the group formed a political party, which, they claim, now has tens of thousands of members. Earlier this year they unveiled a paramilitary force that doubles as a street gang.
Even as their party polls barely a percent, Azov is trying – as one of their higher-ups has told me personally – to build a far-right “state within the state,” running everything from nationalist study groups and mixed martial arts training to free gyms for youth and programs for the elderly. They’re also trying to turn Kiev into a capital of the global far-right, inviting neo-Nazis and white supremacists from around the world to visit.
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Honking their horns?
I trust nothing that I read from the internet.
Because, nobody really cares about Biden’s money laundering machine.
Neo Nazi’s or Nazi’s are FAR LEFT not right. They don’t believe in individual liberty or limited government.
Socialists are FAR LEFT
Nazi means NATIONAL SOCIALIST.
I don’t even know what a neo-nazi is.
Nazi - German for National Socialist.
Hardly right wing... Are peoe this dumb in the world?
DeeCee is in on the Take.
I do not care who is in charge of Ukraine.
At all. If it’s neo-Nazis, Russians, flat-earthers - all that is a matter of complete indifference to me.
if so, it bothers me less than the libcommies gaining power here at home
Those crafty Ukrainian Nazis freely elected a Jewish comedian as their president as part of their sinister plot to trick Putin and Russia into invading Ukraine.
Obviously, the Ukrainians need to be eradicated from the earth by the completely honest, upstanding, and righteous defenders of truth, freedom, and liberty in the Russian military.
I hear those Ukrainian Nazis kick kittens and puppies!!! And then they observe Passover, too! We all know what blood drinking Nazis the evil Joooos are, right? Zelensky eats four or five Russian babies every day! I heard it on Tass so it must be true!
Yep, those Russian boys are doing God’s work by killing the Jewish Ukrainian Nazis.
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No one cares at the moment for the same reason people tolerated the alliance with Stalin during WWII.
“I don’t even know what a neo-nazi is.”
For the purposes of this topic a ‘Neo-Nazi’ is anyone who thinks it’s wrong for the Russians to use military force to try to recreate their Soviet Empire.
Take your Neocon urges up with the editorial board of the Forward.
Exactly.
One of the biggest lies in the post WWII world is the NAZIs are a movement of the right. During their rise to power, they were widely recognized as people and a movement of the Left.
The Chinese Communists have become much closer to the German NAZIs than to the old Soviet Union.
They openly espouse the racial superiority of the Han Chinese.
For starters the left, from Putin to Trudeau to the left in this country all lie about there being a Nazi proliferation problem and a Nazi symbol proliferation problem.
Their party is less than 1%? Hardly running things!!
The biggest problem I see is who gets to define Neo-Nazi.
Trump and most all conservatives were called Nazis for over 4 years. Are we supposed to accept that?
Because shut up Putinist! /s
Facts do not matter to propagandists promoting a narrative.
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