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That's because they have army regiments founded and staffed by actual neo-nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion#Neo-Nazism

One of the main streets in Kyiv was renamed after this very controversial gentlemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

According to Jacobin, Bandera was a Nazi sympathizer: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/stepan-bandera-nationalis...

Wild.

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Bandera wasn’t a Nazi he was a Ukrainian (“ultra”) nationalist he did tried to work with the Nazis to secure Ukrainian independence however he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a bloody concentration camp.

He was a way justifies the means type of guy he fought against the Polish to secure Ukrainian independence then against the Bolsheviks and Communists.

Branding him as a Nazi is honestly insulting both to him and to anyone who actually suffered under actual Nazis.

Jacobin is a rag I wouldn’t rely on a single word they print.

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