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Azov supporters in a Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
commemoration march:
Karl Spooner on Ukraine: "It doesn't appear it would be a great loss if they did just disappear."
Efforts to smear all Ukrainians as "Nazis" or "neo-Nazis" are pure Russian propaganda and nothing else.
In fact, there are relatively few self-identified neo-Nazis in Ukraine, no more than in countries like Russia and the US, and of no more political influence.
Indeed, given Ukraine's Jewish president, government officials and growing Jewish population (circa 400,000), there's no way to legitimately claim Ukraine is ruled by "Nazis".
Yes, of course, inside the minds of our Russkiy Mir-oviches, anyone who opposes Vlad the Invader's annexations of Ukrainian territories must be a "Nazi", but there's no reason for anyone not fully committed to the Russian cause to repeat such nonsense.
(left) St. Petersburg, Russia, neo-Nazis:
(right) Russian neo-Nazi Rusich Group troops in Ukraine:
They have entrenched themselves in the Russian political and social discourse.
And now, we have come to the point where we can justifiably claim that the damage done by Putin’s mafia regime has led to a glaring Nazification of Russia.
Therefore, in the near future, Russian society will have to undergo a painful process of denazifying itself — that is, if it ever wants to be trusted as a progressive part of the continent and a good neighbour to the countries it tried to oppress.