Uh oh, reality is threatening to reinforce Russian propaganda!
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
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And the eternal argument in defense of Nazism in Ukraine - but Zelensky is a Jew. And Obama is a black man - did that stop racism in USA?!
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
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In each photograph, Ukrainians in uniform wore patches featuring symbols that were made notorious by Nazi Germany and have since become part of the iconography of far-right hate groups.
And the eternal argument in defense of Nazism in Ukraine - but Zelensky is a Jew. And Obama is a black man - did that stop racism in USA?!
In the short term, that threatens to reinforce Mr. Putin’s propaganda and giving fuel to his false claims that Ukraine must be “de-Nazified” — a position that ignores the fact that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. More broadly, Ukraine’s ambivalence about these symbols, and sometimes even its acceptance of them, risks giving new, mainstream life to icons that the West has spent more than a half-century trying to eliminate.