• aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    You will notice that all of these stories are after 2014 though. The fascist movements was formed quite rapidly, but it was still in response to aggression by the Russian government and military. These new fascists (Azov batallion a prime example ) were/are made up of Russian speakers from eastern Ukraine!! Not the stereotypical russophobes from lviv.

    Gee I wonder what actions of the Russian military or their “polite people” in eastern Ukraine might have led to this??

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      The Banderite fascists didn’t suddenly spring into existence at the moment of their 2014 coup. They go all the way back to the 1930s.

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        ukrainian nationalism (including its heinous forms) goes at least as far back as the russian revolution/civil war, and ideologically originated in late 19th century. but again, it was developed in response to the no less vicious russian imperialism