{"id":1,"date":"2022-12-11T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-02-01T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:13:27","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"1.1 Ukraine is a Nazi (or fascist) nation, led by a &#8220;junta&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Examples:<\/strong> Numerous. Watch Putin&#8217;s appearances, Russian TV propaganda etc. E.g: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5jSMj-lLdeo\" target=\"_blank\">Putin declaring start of the &#8220;SMO&#8221;, talking about &#8220;denazification&#8221; of Ukraine (Youtube)<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or here, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gerashchenko_en\/status\/1604873946729422852?s=20&amp;t=9r5OxoLGzeGicNEf0uNmSw\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Kibovsky &#8211; he head of the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow calls for killing Ukrainians (Twitter)<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YukZLZwHnM\" target=\"_blank\">clips from Russian TV<\/a> with top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov (Youtube)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another TV propaganda excerpt shown in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NM9DNF7-1aQ?t=86\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Media Clips collected<\/a> (Youtube)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or an endless numbers of talkshows etc. on Russian TV, displayed in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@russianmediamonitor\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Media monitor<\/a> .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">True or False:&nbsp;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">FALSE<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These accusations against Ukraine and the Ukrainian people are often accompanied with photos or videos, supposedly from Ukraine, with people wearing nazi or at least far right symbols and imagery &#8211; considered &#8220;proof&#8221; on how nazist Ukraine is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, to start with, nazism and far right extremism may EXIST in Ukraine (just like in many other countries). But does that mean Ukraine as a country, its government or the Ukrainian people are nazist? NO. Watch this video from Zack the Russian who develops further on this:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rzc_Foq9PjY\" target=\"_blank\">Are there Nazis in Ukraine? What do I think as a Russian (Youtube)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To call a nation or a &#8220;regim&#8221; nazist is a very&nbsp;grave accusation, and to start a war under this pretext (to &#8220;denazify&#8221; Ukraine) makes the question literally life-threatening. Such very grave accusation needs to be based on&nbsp;facts.&nbsp;<strong>Showing some Ukrainian, somewhere, using questionable insignia is NOT such a fact.<\/strong> It&#8217;s rather anectdotal. To call a whole nation or even just an organisation &#8220;nazist&#8221; or even far right, there needs to be real, comprehensive documentation supporting this. It may be political programs, speeches from the leaders or <strong>actual policies<\/strong> that are implemented that suggest this. However, such documentation simply <strong>does not exist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is a <strong>fact<\/strong> is that Ukraine is led by a president with Jewish roots, elected in 2019. His party &#8220;Servant of the People&#8221; is described as centre, populist, liberal and pro-European. The party is a member of&nbsp;Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. The same party holds a majority of the seats in the Ukrainian parlament, the Rada since 2019. At the same time, Ukrainian nationalist far right parties only occupies 1 (one) single seat in the same parliament (the Svoboda party). <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election\" target=\"_blank\">Get more info on the 2019 election here, including relevant links (Wikipedia)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This shows that in reality, for most Ukrainians nazism and fascism is as foreign as it is for most other people in the world. In Ukraine there might definitely be a sense of national pride and patriotism. But hey, the same goes for Russia and many other countries around the world, right? And now, being a country under attack, Ukraine naturally sees a growth in the sense of patriotism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And above is the answer to accusations about Ukraine being led by a&nbsp;<strong>junta<\/strong>. A <em>junta<\/em> (or <em>military junta<\/em>)&nbsp;refers to a regim consisting of a military body of government. <strong>What Ukraine has is a civil, democratically elected government<\/strong> &#8211; as described above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extra reading\/watching:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lens.monash.edu\/@politics-society\/2022\/08\/19\/1384992\/much-azov-about-nothing-how-the-ukrainian-neo-nazis-canard-fooled-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">Much Azov about nothing (article, Lens\/ Monash University)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More on RUSSIAN far right movements, at times uncomfortably close to the Russian power:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Far-right_politics_in_Ukraine#Pro-Russian_separatism\" target=\"_blank\">Russian far right movement&#8217;s involvement in Donbass (Wikipedia)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KonstantinKisin\/status\/1505241016965775363?s=20&amp;t=9r5OxoLGzeGicNEf0uNmSw\" target=\"_blank\">Russian high rank Dmitry Rogozin in a very &#8220;questionable&#8221; setting (video, Twitter)<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaDavisNews\/status\/1599157066010357760?s=20&amp;t=9r5OxoLGzeGicNEf0uNmSw\" target=\"_blank\">here (Twitter)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bavovna_lover\/status\/1598422863018598428?s=20&amp;t=9r5OxoLGzeGicNEf0uNmSw\" target=\"_blank\">Russian <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bavovna_lover\/status\/1598422863018598428?s=20&amp;t=9r5OxoLGzeGicNEf0uNmSw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bavovna_lover\/status\/1598422863018598428?s=20&amp;t=9r5OxoLGzeGicNEf0uNmSw\" target=\"_blank\">peacekeepers&#8221; (Twitter)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/reporters\/20221202-occupied-ukraine-inside-the-horror-of-russia-s-parallel-reality\" target=\"_blank\">Occupied Ukraine: Inside the horror of Russia&#8217;s parallel reality (article\/video, France24)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukrbravery\/status\/1616727859737026560?s=20&amp;t=T31M2MNvF23M3OFFghC6zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russian nazi Aleksei Milchakov says Ukrainians must be destroyed so they can&#8217;t raise children (Twitter)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0While limited &#8220;nazi&#8221;, or at least, far right extremist groups may\u00a0<em>exist<\/em>\u00a0in Ukraine (just like in many countries, including Russia!), Ukraine is by no mean a nazi state. The Ukrainian government is NOT a nazi junta but a democratic, liberal government. The Ukrainian population are, overall, NOT nazis as apparent from the elections. Ukraine is by no means lead by a junta. On the contrary, it&#8217;s Russia that is an expansionist, revanschist, brutal and increasingly totalitarian dictatorship, now starting to invade, occupy and annex another country&#8217;s territory &#8211; with apparent similarities to Germany in the 1930ies. The Russian accusations are all FALSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examples: Numerous. Watch Putin&#8217;s appearances, Russian TV propaganda etc. E.g: True or False:&nbsp;FALSE These accusations against Ukraine and the Ukrainian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[25,24,17,16,26,15],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russian-reasons-for-war","category-russian-propaganda-exposed","tag-junta","tag-nazism","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-russian-fascism","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianpropagandaexposed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}