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I don’t know what to tell you, but I understand why you are so confused. Additionally the German Nazis of 80 years ago considered all Slavic people to be untermench (sub-human) to be exterminated, just like the Jews. Russian and Ukrainian people are of course Slavic, so none of it makes sense through that lens. Maybe that’s why they call them NeoNazi (“new” nazi).

Putin’s “denazification” goal addresses minority ethnic persecution: that the minority ethnic Russians are persecuted by the majority ethnic Ukrainians.

CapanBall: "I don’t know what to tell you, but I understand why you are so confused.
Additionally the German Nazis of 80 years ago considered all Slavic people to be untermench (sub-human) to be exterminated, just like the Jews.
Russian and Ukrainian people are of course Slavic, so none of it makes sense through that lens.
Maybe that’s why they call them NeoNazi (“new” nazi)."

I am not in the least confused, but you are very obviously befuddled by some insane Russian propaganda, equating Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Ukrainian patriots to 1940s era Nazis.
Oh? Do you think you can get away with calling them "neo-Nazis" since that word "neo-Nazi" can be twisted to mean whatever you want it to mean?
Equivalent to saying, "I don't like your looks, so you're a neo-Nazi!"
It's rubbish and all it really means -- the claim that ethnic Russians were being violently persecuted -- that is an utter lie because before the EuroMaidan Revolt in 2014, Russians ruled over Ukraine in the form of their stooge & traitor Victor Yanukovych.
Russian rule only ended when they committed treason and began waging war on their own country -- on Ukraine, not Russia.

"Nazi-ism" in any form had nothing to do with it, except this: the excuse Vlad the Invader used for Russian invasion of Ukraine was exactly the same excuse Adolf Hitler used to invade Austria, Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries -- Hitler invaded, he claimed, to protect ethnic Germans in those countries, just as Vlad the Invader claims to be protecting ethnic Russians.

So, if anybody is a "Nazi", it's Vlad the Invader.

CapanBall: "Putin’s “denazification” goal addresses minority ethnic persecution: that the minority ethnic Russians are persecuted by the majority ethnic Ukrainians."

It's a total lie, Hitlerian in its monstrosity.