Why Does No One Care That Neo-Nazis Are Gaining Power In Ukraine?
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1743 ... January 18, 2019
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Why Does No One Care That Neo-Nazis Are Gaining Power In Ukraine?
Michael Colborne
I can't count the number of times I’ve been told Ukraine doesn't really have a problem with its far-right. It's all Kremlin propaganda; you’re personally helping Putin by talking about it; other countries have far-right problems too, so why single out Ukraine? I’ve heard it all.
But I expect to hear even more lines like this in the New Year, all because I’m going to point out the obvious: Ukraine really does have a far-right problem, and it's not a fiction of Kremlin propaganda. And it's well past time to talk about it.
Ukraine's far-right is like a hydra, with ugly heads that pop-up far too frequently. Just within... the last few weeks, an American-born cabinet minister thanked a group of violent neo-Nazi "activists" for their services, a soldier was photographed wearing a Nazi death's head patch right behind President Petro Poroshenko and almost 1,500 neo-Nazis and friends threw a two-day Hitler-salute-fest.
