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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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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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

Is Russian propaganda in the room with you right now?

[–] thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

@thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone Just balancing out all the pro-Ukrainian propaganda. There are always 2 sides and people deserve to know ALL the facts.

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

Then lets see articles that show ALL the facts.

Seems like sometimes one country looks better with ALL the facts about both. But keeping one country with bad things out seems like Propaganda.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago

@ReakDuck@lemmy.ml

In the West, since the start of the SMO we have been deluged with Ukrainian propaganda. There is plenty around, so dig your head out of the sand! We're the most indoctrinated society on earth!

@thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah ok buddy, now do Russia's employment of neo-nazi mercenaries and the fact it is led by a right-wing dictator.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml

Why don't YOU indulge us …? Another sock puppet account. WiTH are you afraid of?

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sockpuppet account lmao? I just joined today. So, you're telling me Putin is not a right-wing dictator? I guess I should visit Moscow as a trans gay person and publicly express my disdain against right-wingers trying to exterminate us in Russia. For sure it's not a fascistic country and I won't get thrown in prison for it. /s

You have screws loose up there if you think Russia is not far-right.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/01/russia-anti-gay-propaganda-law-assault-on-freedom-expression/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/24/vladimir-putin-signs-law-banning-gender-changes-in-russia

Like, be ffr. The Nazi book burnings were the destruction of LGBT+ Sexologist Mr.Hirschfeld's work. Putin is silencing and jailing LGBT+ people and anyone who dares to speak against this or the war. Definitely not a fascist dictarship for suuure bro.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml I'm not your bro.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Cry me a river about it, fash.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml

It's a traditional conservative society and I wouldn't call them neoconservative, just because they don't accept gay/trans folks. Many other people and countries don't either. In fact, the majority of the world doesn't. Identity politics is going to doom us in the West.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooooh fuck right off lmao. My country is also full of tradconservatives and they don't hunt us,jail us or silence us for complete extermination on a both governmental and mainstream cultural level. Russian culture and laws are extremely right-wing, and keep getting worse. Stop finding excuses for your delusions. You're defending a right-wing, state-capitalist dictator for fucking what, my dude? The sucking of boots here is insane.

[–] marathon01@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't in Russia, either. I'm sure isolated incidents exist, but it's not widespread. The reason for the Russian crackdown is bc Civil Society groups in the West, including USAid were using your propaganda against the Russian government in an attempt at Regime Change. You're being used Grasshopper for geopolitical purposes and your crowd is too ignorant to know.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LGBT+ existence and discussion is literally criminalized by law in Russia, even worse since 2022 cracking down on sexual minorities even harder. People have been already jailed for this by the government, abused for this en masse. Trans people cannot get the medical care they need anymore to transition, leading to misery and suicides.

My and my kin's right to exist is not idpol, you sick ass.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Putin did this, for more than a decade, not "foreign propaganda" lmao. Be ffr. The dude has been extremely open about LGBT extermination.

[–] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml

I explained to you why it was criminalized, your kind is being manipulated for regime change purposes. The naïveté of young people like you seems endless.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

"Your kind is being manipulated"

Yeahhhh gay and trans people not wanting to be criminalized and beaten to death and be barred from life saving care is "western manipulation". You are so smart, fashy.

[–] KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You didn't explain shit. Putin had free control over these laws, openly stated that LGBT people should be exterminated/removed for more than a decade, and then did exactly that through law and violent policing.

"Muh foreign propaganda did this" you people are insane

[–] Wether@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Moderate guy.

Azov were more-or-less wiped out in the opening stages of the invasion at Mariupol.

Got a source on this?

[–] Wether@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The link you sent titles the video "Zelenskiy threatens to come for the children of Crimea". What he says is that they're going to retake the Crimea, and while the video starts mid-sentence he seems to be saying that children who have grown up in occupied Crimea have been exposed to Russian propaganda, which I'm sure is true. The International Criminal Court has been issuing arrest warrants for people involved in a Russian program to abduct Ukrainian children, FYI. So getting the minds of the next generation is demonstrable part of the Russian war strategy. In this clip, it seems like he's responding to a direct question from a journalist. While I doubt Ukraine will ever retake Crimea (and tbh I think Russia has a pretty solid claim to it), I understand why he's saying they'll retake it, and none of this seems like strange thing for a wartime president to say. Overall this seems like a pretty clear case of disinformation promoted on an app run by a fascist.

For the Azov point, you can just read the Wikipedia article on the Battle of Mariupol, or there's a Kyiv Post piece here. It does seem that components of Azov have reformed but they're far from what they were.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

What he says is that they’re going to retake the Crimea

Against the will of the people living there.

saying that children who have grown up in occupied Crimea have been exposed to Russian propaganda

They are Russian, they have chosen to be Russian. They are only exposed to their culture. They have no interest being part of a Nazi fascist dictatorship and neither do the other breakaway regions.

The International Criminal Court has been issuing arrest warrants for people involved in a Russian program

This is American propaganda. Russia temporarily moved orphans out of a warzone and has since moved them back. The International Colonial Court exists to prosecute the enemies of America and nothing more.

none of this seems like strange thing for a wartime president to say. Overall

If you agree that the Crimean people have a right to self determination then you not only see Zelensky as a wartime president, but an aggressor threatening an invasion too.

For the Azov point, you can just read the Wikipedia article

NATOpedia is not a serious source of information about anything political.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

UA has integrated neo-Nazis into the upper levels of their military and seem to make decisions based on their ideas. They have increased funding for groups like Azov, who have been running little Hitler Youth camps for years, and have recently integrated them into a larger and more powerful Nazi force.

[–] Wether@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, I hadn't heard of Baxi before. Do you have any links where I can read some more about any of this?

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry that was a typo, it was supposed to say Nazi. Here's a UA propaganda outlet describing the reorg: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51054

[–] Wether@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago