• PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
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    23 hours ago

    Boy, you must be super pissed at Russia and critical of a lot of their people then. If support for arguably-neo-Nazi figures is the metric. I mean, lots of them speak highly of Stalin, they have statues of him for fuck’s sake, and he made a deal with actual Hitler and fought alongside him to invade Poland. He wasn’t just a cosplayer.

    According to Vyacheslav Likhachev of the Institut français des relations internationales, members of far-right (including neo-Nazi) groups played an important role on the pro-Russian side, arguably more so than on the Ukrainian side, especially during early 2014.[240][241] Members and former members of the National Bolshevik Party, Russian National Unity (RNU), Eurasian Youth Union, and Cossack groups participated in recruitment of the separatists.[240][242][243][244] A former RNU member, Pavel Gubarev, was founder of the Donbas People’s Militia and first “governor” of the Donetsk People’s Republic.[240][245] RNU is particularly linked to the Russian Orthodox Army,[240] one of a number of separatist units described as “pro-Tsarist” and “extremist” Orthodox nationalists.[246][240] ‘Rusich’ is part of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary group in Ukraine which has been linked to far-right extremism.[247][248] Afterward, the pro-Russian far-right groups became less important in Donbas and the need for Russian radical nationalists started to disappear.[240]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism#Ukraine

    Or is that side of it not a big deal?

    Only the side where it makes Ukrainians look bad in some way? For some reason?

    BTW, I just gave $50 more to Ukraine via https://u24.gov.ua/ on the big “Donate Now” link in the top right. Hopefully they can buy some weapons with it, and keep playing Bandera songs if that’s what they want to do while they are blowing up Soviet-era equipment that’s trying to kill their people.