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Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't

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When you're fighting an invasion of your country, its a bad time to quibble about the ideological purity of the other people on your side of the line.

It really is possible to find shared goals and cooperate on achieving them with people who do not totally agree with you. Once the immediate threat is addressed, those people might be the next item on the agenda; but this is "stand together or fall separately" territory.

That may be reasonable; I think it's important to consider how any party's involvement will be remembered as well, though. What groups will be glorified? Will that affect the way that those groups behave, what they feel proud about, and how they are treated in future?

There are a lot of roles required in successfully defending against an invasion -- maintenance, transport, heavy lifting, fighting, cooking; to name a few. Effective task assignment can be a resilience multiplier in the moment and also has a long-term echo.

> When you're fighting an invasion of your country, its a bad time to quibble about the ideological purity of the other people on your side of the line.

Unless who is trying to propagate this information, works together or for Russia.

BTW from HN:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-jews-push-back-again...

From same publication, in Jan 1:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-ukrainian-national...

Heck, in NL we have them in Parliament. Let's hope Putin doesn't come here to denazify us. On top of that: Russia most likely has more Neo Nazi's in Moscow than in all of Ukraine, this is just one giant distraction from what matters: that Russia has invaded another sovereign European country.

Nah,it's not a distraction, it's justification

A pretext, but that has nothing to do with you posting it here, that is a distraction. Ukraine currently has a Russian problem, the Nazi problem there - and elsewhere - should be dealt with but it can wait until the shells stop flying and there is - hopefully - a Ukraine left.

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