• Zetta@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Russian’s military has just as many and likely significantly more Nazis than Ukraine’s. So shouldn’t you support neither side?

    Or is it the Russian Nazis are okay right now because they are fighting against the Western Nazis?

    • NimaMag@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 hours ago

      There is a difference between institutionalized Nazis in Ukraine and extremist elements within Russia.

      Ukraine’s Azov Battalion was made an official part of Ukraine’s Armed Forces and has become a premier unit in Ukraine’s military. Stepan Bandera is treated as a national hero in Ukraine. Bandera’s birthday is a national holiday.

      To use someone else’s analogy, this would be like if the KKK was promoted to a premier unit in the US military, and Nathan Bedford Forrest was treated as a national hero, with his birthday becoming a national holiday.