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President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine "glorifies" Adolf Hitler's SS killing squads and vowed to "eradicate Nazism," as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad.

The Russian leader has repeatedly invoked the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War to justify his current offensive against Ukraine.

His charge that Ukraine is a fascist state that needs "de-Nazifying" has been debunked as false by independent experts.

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[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

He should look in the mirror. Putin and his cronies are the nazis in this affair.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Relevant:

When Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at dawn on Thursday, he justified the “special military operation” as having the goal to “denazify” Ukraine. ... Ukraine does have a far-right movement, and its armed defenders include the Azov battalion ... But no democratic country is free of far-right nationalist groups, including the United States. In the 2019 election, the Ukrainian far right was humiliated, receiving only 2% of the vote. This is far less support than far-right parties receive across western Europe ... Ukraine is a democratic country, whose popular president was elected, in a free and fair election, with over 70% of the vote. That president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is Jewish, and comes from a family partially wiped out in the Nazi Holocaust. ... Putin ... has come to view himself as the global leader of Christian nationalism ... in part because of the global reach of recent Russian fascist thinkers such as Alexander Dugin and Alexander Prokhanov who laid its groundwork. ... The dominant version of antisemitism alive in parts of eastern Europe today is that Jews employ the Holocaust to seize the victimhood narrative from the “real” victims of the Nazis, who are Russian Christians. ... Those who embrace Russian Christian nationalist ideology will be especially susceptible to this strain of antisemitism. ... By claiming that the aim of the invasion is to “denazify” Ukraine, Putin appeals to the myths of contemporary eastern European antisemitism – that a global cabal of Jews were (and are) the real agents of violence against Russian Christians and the real victims of the Nazis were not the Jews, but rather this group.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify

[–] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

I mean, I've definitely seen some Ukrainian soldiers rocking nazi symbols on their uniforms. Fuck those guys specifically. And fuck Russia for putting out that beheading video.