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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Here's how Ukraine was being reported by the West before the war.

Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.

Five years after Maidan, the beacon of democracy is looking more like a torchlight march. A neo-Nazi battalion in the heart of Europe

If you whitewash NAZI POGROMS just because you want to beat Russia, fuck you. Siding with far-right fascists to defeat far-right fascists doesn't make you the good guy. There is no lesser of two evils here.

If you dismiss any criticism of Ukraine as Russian propaganda, you might want to ask why the rest of the world, including the West, was concerned about Nazism in the area and then suddenly changed their tune only after the war started.

We should be getting both sides into peace negotiations, not prolonging the bloodshed and providing Nazis with illegal cluster bombs

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[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

Russia pit Slavic country's against each other funny how eastern Europe hates Russia just because they have done nothing but bring suffering and death to that region of the world for centuries funny how they want to align with the west and have money and health care and be able to live and not have Russian missiles fall on there head but america bad

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

america bad

See? You can still be right even as you spew nonsense and false equivalencies.

[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

How do you get this confused you would be on the side of Hitler in world war 2

[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

I invite you to consider that for most of their history the US was very pro nazi. The USSR is one of the few groups that has been consistently anti-nazi

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Nazis? In my North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the West German government at all levels and...

[-] immuredanchorite@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

sound like you don't know what you are talking about. Germany and Japan first aligned themselves in the Anti-Comintern Pact which was literally an anti-communist alliance. The axis in ww2 was literally born as an anti-communist project. You are confused, you are so confused you would have sided with Hitler in world war 2.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Imagine saying tankies would side with Hitler

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin

[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

props to your dentist for dealing with the consequences of the raw sewage propaganda you happily choose to slurp down.

[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

Better than the raw sewage in Russian water

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

🤓🤖🧠

Follow your leader

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago

your keyboard has a button to place breaks between sentences. Please utilize it.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The fact that you're typing and posting so quickly that you can't even use punctuation also implies you're not putting a lot of thought into reading and understanding what people are telling you. And now I'm editing in a second sentence so that I need punctuation. I don't feel like getting a childish comeback in my inbox.

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