A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi soldier visited the Auschwitz death camp wearing a shirt quoting Hitler in order to mock the camp’s victims. This is the type of truly fascist scum that billions and billions of US taxpayer dollars are going to fund and arm.
A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi soldier visited the Auschwitz death camp wearing a shirt quoting Hitler in order to mock the camp’s victims. This is the type of truly fascist scum that billions and billions of US taxpayer dollars are going to fund and arm.
Firsr, I skimmed the wikipedia article you linked and I couldn’t find anything in particular you were referring to, so it’s not avoidance, I am genuinely asking questions. Second, as you know, Banderism is a phenomenon which is much more complicated than just saying “Nazi”. It is linked with nationalism ans movements to get independent from what (from their perspective) was an occupier. It’s not so clear-cut as you are suggesting, where if you celebrate Bandera you are automatically a Nazi who supports Jew extermination and poles massacres.
Now, I don’t know if this guy is an actual Nazi or " just" a nationalist, or something else, or what his story is and why he is in the government, but being a Banderist doesn’t automatically translate to being a Nazi in the sense we give it in the west (oppression of minorities, antisemitism etc.).
So I guess I would challenge the foundation of your argument about the relationship between Bandera support and Nazism support. The more nationalists in Ukraine for sure see Bandera as a sort of “hero”, but mostly due to the impact on Ukraine liberation, not due to the (brief) alliance with Nazis (which was also opportunistic). I am sure you will disagree here, but history is complicated, and trust me, I have to overcome some of my own bias as an Italian, which means I have obviously a completely different perspective of WWII history. I simply can’t splash my own Western morality (based on our own shared history) on top of people and cultures that lived through a completely different history. So what you are saying to me sounds a complete simplification that disregards history and background for the population you are talking about.
I definitely do not agree with Ukraine handling the Donbass question. That said, I hardly think that letting them shell donbass has to do with supporting Nazi views and not simply supporting the general goal of taking back control of occupied regions (we can discuss about Russian influence\russian sponsored coup\self determination of the people another time, here I am simply capturing the perspective of the Ukrainian government - right or wrong).
it’s only nazism if it comes from the nazi region of germany, otherwise it’s just sparkling genocidal fascism. got it.
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