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Originally posted by AURaptor:

So, answer me this, if anyone would like...

Why are the Ukrainians so attached to NAZIism, when it was the the NAZI party who took their newly elected govt , after declaring independence from the USSR, and put them into concentration camps ?

I mean, I get why they wanted to sidle up w/ the enemies of the USSR, so they could gain their freedom, but the NAZIS didn't exactly do them any favors, did they ?

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Which is why so many would prefer Russia.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I don't see how neo-nazis hope to gain sympathy from the Ukrainian public when they go around and beat up folks for no reason.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

... but the NAZIS didn't exactly do them any favors, did they ?

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Right now they are fighting the pro-Russian side.

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The uncomfortable truth is that a sizeable portion of Kiev's current government -- and the protesters who brought it to power -- are, indeed, fascists. If Western governments hope to steer Ukraine clear from the most unsavory characters in Moscow and Kiev, they will need to wage a two-pronged diplomatic offensive: against Putin's propaganda and, at the same time, against Ukraine's resurgent far-right.

Ukraine is home to Svoboda, arguably Europe's most influential far-right movement today. (In the photo above, Svoboda activists seize a Ministry of Agriculture building during Kiev's Euromaidan protests in January.) Party leader Oleh Tyahnybok is on record complaining that his country is controlled by a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia," while his deputy derided the Ukrainian-born film star Mila Kunis as a "dirty Jewess." In Svoboda's eyes, gays are perverts and black people unfit to represent the nation at Eurovision, lest viewers come away thinking Ukraine is somewhere besides Uganda...

Today, Svoboda holds a larger chunk of its nation's ministries (nearly a quarter, including the prized defense portfolio) than any other far-right party on the continent. Ukraine's deputy prime minister represents Svoboda (the smaller, even more extreme "Right Sector" coalition fills the deputy National Security Council chair), as does the prosecutor general and the deputy chair of parliament ---- where the party is the fourth-largest. And Svoboda's fresh faces are scarcely different from the old: one of its freshmen members of parliament is the founder of the "Joseph Goebbels Political Research Centre" and has hailed the Holocaust as a "bright period" in human history.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

So, answer me this, if anyone would like...

Why are the Ukrainians so attached to NAZIism, when it was the the NAZI party who took their newly elected govt , after declaring independence from the USSR, and put them into concentration camps ?

I mean, I get why they wanted to sidle up w/ the enemies of the USSR, so they could gain their freedom, but the NAZIS didn't exactly do them any favors, did they ?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Right now they are fighting the pro-Russian side.

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HUH????

You mean, neo-Nazis fighting FOR Russia???

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