An anti-immigrant Neo-Nazi rally took place in Ukraine with the slogans "Ukraine for Ukrainians" and "Sieg Heil".
Visible are the red and black OUN flag (WWII Nazi collaborator organization responsible for pogroms and massacres) as well as Right Sector and Svoboda (far right Neo-Nazi organizations that led the 2014 Maidan coup):
https://xcancel.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2058286223966237106
https://xcancel.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2058189412161241484
https://xcancel.com/UniqueMongolia/status/2058418167811026962
OT: requesting analysis of what you see happening in Germany around you (separate thread, obviously).
Nothing. There is not much to analyze because nothing is happening. Germans are extremely passive and complacent. There are occasional demonstrations happening in some of the larger cities but if you don't live in a city like Berlin or Frankfurt, there is practically zero political activity. People are just completely checked out. Most are still mentally living in the early 2000s.
On a macro level a lot is happening of course. Fuel is getting very expensive, our grocery, heating and electricity bills are getting insane. Germany is deindustrializing and losing tens of thousands of jobs. Large companies that have been around for decades or longer are going bankrupt. Growth is non-existent, the chancellor wants to cut social welfare to expand the military, conscription is making a comeback, and we have just sent more tens of billions to Ukraine.
The AfD leading polls by a large margin ahead of the second place party, but it hardly makes a difference because the center parties can all just unite to keep them out. And besides the establishment has adopted the AfD's xenophobic policies anyway. The left is practically dead. They drove out everyone who was against NATO and the EU and have become an appendage of the mainstream neoliberal parties.
The state is surveilling and persecuting anyone who is critical of Israel or the drive to war with Russia. Our communist parties are having their bank accounts frozen and lawfare was used against us to ban us from elections despite us not getting even 1% of votes (i guess if you're a glass half full type of person you could say this is a good sign, it shows how much they fear us).
Journalism is practically dead with the only journalists who dare go against the official narrative getting sanctioned out of their livelihoods and some who were covering the Ukraine conflict were even threatened with arrest and cannot return to the EU. The mainstream media has a stranglehold on the narrative on topics like EU, NATO, Iran, Palestine, Russia.
In short, nothing good is happening and things will only get worse and Germans are not going to do anything about it except drift even further right.
Basically this. Any possibility of larger resistance died when the mainstream german left embraced Ukraine.
Yep. Yet another opportunist German left betrayal of workers in favor of imperialist warmongering. Strong echoes of SPD voting for WWI war funds.
These are all I have heard in months. Grim.
Western trends. 🤢