Seriously though, the USA is virtually always bad.

  • @JohnDClay
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    110 months ago

    Oh sorry, I thought you meant that there were no Nazis in Russian power when you said ‘nazis on both sides’ was nonsense. So your saying Nazis are in higher places of power in Ukraine than Russia?

    • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2210 months ago

      Damn can you for a second think about systematic versus individual arguments? Nobody thinks there are no Nazi’s with power in Russia (though the biggest ones were recently killed). It’s about how those ideologies function in Russian and Ukrainian socio/political-economic situation.

      In Russia, they are systematically oppressed, with many far right figures calling Putin jewish-supporting and anti-right wing for the way that their organizations are systematically kept down. There were celebrations of collaborators after the 90’s that have consistently been stopped by police and people arrested for long times for partaking in recent decades.

      Meanwhile, regardless of INDIVIDUAL Nazi’s (which on this front is still many more, but I don’t really care about that), Ukraine is incorporating the ideological functions of, and avoiding any critique of, the Nazi collaboration supporters. More people are picking up the symbols of Nazism, people are using the language and ideological underpinnings of Nazism to discuss Russians in orientalist and anti-Semitism-influenced language about how lesser and Asian they are.

      In one country, such talk is dying off as it’s oppressed away and in the other it’s growing and becoming only more popular.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      1510 months ago

      So you’re saying they’re not more present in the Ukrainian government? I’d like to see your proof for this. @[email protected] has given you a great analysis with sources highlighting the involvement of Nazis in Ukrainian government positions. So far your response has been “well what about that mercenary?”
      Stop being obtuse and cute about it, if you have some actual proof and basis for your claims, share it