• yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    also, yes wikipedia is rags for anything regarding geopol, yesyes, but it’s also funny seeing how people can first see how their stuff on palestine is wrong (endlessly charitable to israel, we know this), but then ukraine: since ppl cant see western bias and lean towards ukraine, you can go to stuff like stepan bandera’s wikipedia page and just see 'he’s a far right figure who SOME call a fascist (because his followers killed jews and poles en masse, it’s truly so complicated)" like wow

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 days ago

      from something called genevasolutions / https://genevasolutions.news/ukraine-stories/who-was-stepan-bandera-ukraine-s-controversial-nationalist-figure as i did cursory search for stepan bandera. wow thank u. this is utterly horrifying to see posted publicly, and distills every evil part of western propaganda into one poison. italics my own

      Revered by many (who??? who in specific? azov???) as a national hero who fought Soviet domination, and as a fascist responsible for killing tens of thousands by others, Stepan Bandera remains a deeply divisive figure in Ukraine. …Who was he and what do we know?

      After the war, Stepan Bandera continued to oppose Russia’s Soviet regime, which ended up assassinating him in 1959.

      During WWII, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was formed, and ethnic cleansings were carried out in Volynia, Poland. Although Bandera was the leader of the liberation movement, he didn’t personally take part in these actions, nor did he directly participate in the anti-Soviet movement of western Ukraine. Despite these ambiguities, today, he is considered a symbol of resistance by many Ukrainians. His idolisation and that of the Ukrainian nationalists who fought against the USSR began in the 1990s, when far right activists (son) emerged in western Ukraine.

      • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 days ago

        trying to follow no investigation no right to speak and trying to find good sources but im on the western interwebs… ha… and dont worry they DO equate nazi germany and soviets as totallytarian this is beyond satire what if we all just shat

        • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          5 days ago

          OH MY FUCKING GOD

          Bandera is a symbol of Ukrainian resilience and fearless behaviour. He inspired others to fight for independence through his actions. That’s why Putin wants to discredit him.