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.

  • 001@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Someone should tell Zelensky to stop doing shit like this because it doesn’t help the situation.

    Some things are better off staying buried. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a presidential decree on May 26 bestowing the honourary title of “Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army”, or UPA, on an elite unit of the nation’s special forces.

    As the armed wing of the far-right Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the UPA carved out a gruesome name for itself in the shifting borderlands between Poland and Ukraine during World War II.

    It remains infamous in Poland for its role in the massacres of ethnic Poles and Jews in Volhynia and eastern Galicia – massacres that Polish historians believe killed tens of thousands civilians, and that the Polish state considers part of a deliberate campaign of genocide.

    Zelensky’s decree was all the more striking for having the uneasy makings of a pattern. The day before, the Jewish president had presided over the reburial of the repatriated remains of Andriy Melnyk in the national military ceremony near Kyiv.

    Melnyk, who died in Germany in 1964 and had been buried in Luxembourg, was the leader of a branch of the OUN – and a staunch advocate for collaboration between the Ukrainian nationalist movement and Nazi Germany and its fascist allies.

    • aaa999@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      there are enough right wingers and centrists in this area that its democratically elected leader has to make symbolic statements about famous historic guy who did a bad thing

      therefore

      they deserve to have their kids taken away and raised by members of another cultural group in a deliberate attempt by that group to erase their cultural group (there is a word for this)

      i wonder how this guy would respond to “israel democracy gay gay, palestine antigay boo boo, therefore israel gets to do that” arguments

    • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
      25·
      3 days ago

      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

      • 001@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

          • 001@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            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.

            • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              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

        • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          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.