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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is Russian propaganda in the room with you right now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@ctrl_[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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pro Russia poster. Never a bad word said about Russia or Putin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i used to struggle to understand why americans refused to see that the ukrainian far right is so empowered until i came to lemmy and see the election results; now i understand that we've been punching left for so long that the the right seems reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Probably because the party politics of a particular country do not ever justify the military invasion of said country.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'm surprised that this article doesn't engage more with the current war. Given that Russia has been accusing Ukraine of being a 'nazi state' since day one, I'd be surprised if that hadn't changed the level of support for this kind of politics. I can imagine how it could go either way: increasing because of the threat to Ukraine's national identity, or decreasing to not prove the Russians right and to rally around Zelenskyy, who is overall a moderate. I do notice that all of the pictures in this article are from before the war. It's also weird they don't mention that Azov were more-or-less wiped out in the opening stages of the invasion at Mariupol.