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In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the ‘Good Guys’ (consortiumnews.com)

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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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[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (5 children)

What is that website? Smells like Russian propaganda to me. Lemmy seems to get overrun with ot lately, unfortunately.

[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is Russian propaganda in the room with you right now?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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?

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History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Don't believe your eyes, Putin has paid off your eyeballs and puppeteered all western media right up until 2020

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean. The war began in 2014 with Russia and Ukraine

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

The war begun when the west overthrew a democratically elected government triggering a civil war in Ukraine.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

What does Pulitzer have to do with journalism? The opinion of Colombia university holds negative value.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

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.