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Neo-Nazism's rise in Ukraine is due to the silent approval of Ukraine’s political and military elites who prefer to turn a blind eye because they rely on the far-right for their military potential, Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko tells Natylie Baldwin. By Natylie Baldwin Special to Consor

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

i used to struggle to understand why americans refused to see that the ukrainian far right is so empowered until i came to lemmy and see the election results; now i understand that we've been punching left for so long that the the right seems reasonable.

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Probably because the party politics of a particular country do not ever justify the military invasion of said country.