JR, your comment reads like an attempt at Nazi-style disinformation in support of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi thug regime. I will quote from the second and third paragraphs of that article from The Nation, which you pointedly ignore:
"There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and sta…
JR, your comment reads like an attempt at Nazi-style disinformation in support of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi thug regime. I will quote from the second and third paragraphs of that article from The Nation, which you pointedly ignore:
"There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.
"These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity."
JR, you come across as a McCarthyist bigot and an apologist for Ukrainian neo-Nazi atrocities. May you please change your tune.
The four year old Nation article described a minority group in Ukraine. Anti-Semitism has always been a factor in Eastern Europe and bears watching, just as it does in the United States. This is probably why the historic emigration of Jews from Europe came mostly from Eastern European countries and not from Germany or France. The Nation article does not justify opposition to today's Ukraine government.
Zelensky was presiding over the ongoing neo-Nazi atrocities in the Donbass (artillery shelling of civilian targets, like what the Serbs did to the Bosnians), until the Russian invasion made him stop.
Beyond that, the principal supporter behind Zelensky's rise to power was the same Ukrainian oligarch who funded the neo-Nazi Azov battalion:
As others have pointed out, that Nation article (2018) pre-dates Zelenskiy’s election and democratic reforms (which are a work in process, there’s a lot of resistance from oligarchs and right-wingers). The most recent Freedom House analysis of Ukraine calls it a “nation in transition”, with a rating of 39/100 on their freedom scale. Freedom House rates Putin’s Russia as “not free”, with a rating of 19/100. If we are going to call a country a “neo-nazi thug regime” then Putin’s Russia wins hands down. BTW, “may you please change your tune” is an unusual phrasing. не могли бы вы изменить свою мелодию?
JR, your comment reads like an attempt at Nazi-style disinformation in support of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi thug regime. I will quote from the second and third paragraphs of that article from The Nation, which you pointedly ignore:
"There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.
"These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity."
JR, you come across as a McCarthyist bigot and an apologist for Ukrainian neo-Nazi atrocities. May you please change your tune.
The four year old Nation article described a minority group in Ukraine. Anti-Semitism has always been a factor in Eastern Europe and bears watching, just as it does in the United States. This is probably why the historic emigration of Jews from Europe came mostly from Eastern European countries and not from Germany or France. The Nation article does not justify opposition to today's Ukraine government.
Zelensky was presiding over the ongoing neo-Nazi atrocities in the Donbass (artillery shelling of civilian targets, like what the Serbs did to the Bosnians), until the Russian invasion made him stop.
Beyond that, the principal supporter behind Zelensky's rise to power was the same Ukrainian oligarch who funded the neo-Nazi Azov battalion:
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/03/it-all-comes-together-hunter-burisma.html?m=1
As others have pointed out, that Nation article (2018) pre-dates Zelenskiy’s election and democratic reforms (which are a work in process, there’s a lot of resistance from oligarchs and right-wingers). The most recent Freedom House analysis of Ukraine calls it a “nation in transition”, with a rating of 39/100 on their freedom scale. Freedom House rates Putin’s Russia as “not free”, with a rating of 19/100. If we are going to call a country a “neo-nazi thug regime” then Putin’s Russia wins hands down. BTW, “may you please change your tune” is an unusual phrasing. не могли бы вы изменить свою мелодию?
https://freedomhouse.org/country/russia/freedom-world/2022
https://freedomhouse.org/country/ukraine/nations-transit/2021