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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Don´t you know that when Azov was integrated into the Ukrainian military they instantly transformed into fighters for democracy, equality of LGBTQI+ people and protectors of the freedom of all minorities? /s (Believe it or not, this is what people on reddit will tell you when you point out that Azov are Neonazis)

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[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

The only good thing an Azovite ever did was starve to death in the basement of a steel factory stalin-approval

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

that's NOT true and it's VERY fucked up to say! angery

they've also been turned into chunky soup by artillery fire

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[-] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Similarly to the fucked up, twisted irony that descendants of the Holocaust were modern pioneers of settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, it's completely and utterly fucked that Eastern Europe has fallen so deeply into the grip of fascism. It's true that the Ukrainians were treated somewhat differently out of pragmatic considerations by the Nazis, but they were still considered 'Untermenschen'.

It's especially galling when the Ukraine was the economically best off part of the Soviet Union, and center of incredible culture, science, technology. But you don't see these fucks praising an iota of what was unequivocally the best time to be alive in Ukrainian history. Because they don't care about the quality of life of ordinary people. They're predatory, nihilistic death-cultists who should be wiped from the face of the earth.

History often has a sick sense of humor.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

Fuck all Nazis, regardless of country. That being said, "denazification" was a disgusting lie told by an imperialist who has plenty of Nazi's living in his own country to deal with so he could commit cultural genocide.

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[-] YourFavoriteFed@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I don't get is why the GOP is siding with Russia? I'm dumb, shouldn't they be supporting Ukraine?

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

Anything to be seen as contrarian to liberals, even if the issue is non-partisan. Culture war at any cost.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

They're kinda divided on the issue between the establishment neocons and the MAGA faction

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