In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the ‘Good Guys’

consortiumnews.com In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the 'Good Guys'

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

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What is that website? Smells like Russian propaganda to me. Lemmy seems to get overrun with ot lately, unfortunately.
- Is Russian propaganda in the room with you right now?
- 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.
  
  What does Pulitzer have to do with journalism? The opinion of Colombia university holds negative value.
- 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?
  
  History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
  
  Don'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
  
  The war begun when the west overthrew a democratically elected government triggering a civil war in Ukraine.
- 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.

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