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Putin's favorite soldier posts a link to an interview in an attempt to prove that the people "behind Euromaidan" were fascists/"banderites", I point out that the article says the opposite. My comment gets removed, and I get banned. In other news, water is wet.
It doesn't but it's truthfully not a case of "Ukraine is controlled by Nazis."
Just proof Ukraine does have a Far-Right problem...which all States do
Most other heads of state aren't openly celebrating Nazi collaborators. It shouldn't be hard to just not do that, particularly if you're relying on foreign support to fight a war and crucially to counteract a narrative of your state being a Nazi state. Burying our heads in the sand over it hoping that it will go away is just a bad idea.
I doubt there is celebration going on from the Literal Jewish president
All the more reason for him not to do it. The guy he attended the reburial ceremony of would have had him killed towards the end of WW2 as with other Jews.
Only for people of Ukraine to get pissed with Nationalist Wings using that as reason to have them elected instead of "A president who spurns our National Heroes."
welcome to Liberal Politics
Most other heads of state aren't being actively invaded by a much larger neighbour
Most other countries weren't invaded, attacked or oppressed by the Soviet Union to view the enemy of their enemy as their friend. If you look at the countries that were though, like Lithuania and Finland, they absolutely celebrate Nazi collaborators.