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A post on Ask Lemmygrad by user Cyber Ghost titled “What are the reasons why Russia attacked Ukraine?”

Below is the comment by user @cfgaussian reading: “The Nazi Kiev regime attacked the ethnically Russian Donbass for eight years intending to commit genocide in their quest for an ethnically pure Ukraine and Russia finally came to their aid after it became clear that the Minsk agreements were never going to be honored. Also, NATO was turning Ukraine into a hyper militarized threat to the integrity and security of Russia itself. Refusal of the US and Europe to negotiate on a new inclusive security framework, refusal to stop NATO expansion eastward, and the relentless and violent anti-Russian psychosis that has gripped Ukraine since the Maiden coup that triggered a civil war in a country in which half or more of the population are essentially Russian became intolerable.”

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      • adriaan
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        Not to discount it as a problem… but a lot of Eastern Europe has this issue. Hell, not even just Eastern Europe. Fascist parties exist in most places, Ukraine does not really stand out in this aspect.

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        1 year ago

        The Nazis get 19% in France, nobody suggests that it’s ok to invade France.

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        1 year ago

        It is. But there’s even more white supremacists in Russia, including many prominent government officials.

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        1 year ago

        It is and something that needs to be dealt with. But the issue is much worse in surrounding countries like Russia. Hell, one of the puppets Russia installed in DPR was a Nazi.

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        Ukraine has a legit problem with Nazis yes. Russia has no room to judge, however.