@lds @kiwi @neurovagrant What is simplistic?
That the Ukrainian President would have surely known that a Ukrainian soldier fighting against Russia in WWII would have been fighting for the Nazis.
Or that there has been a systematic campaign throughout much of eastern Europe over the past 30 years to rehabilitate Nazi collaborators.
You can recognize that both of these things are true and still denounce the Russian invasion.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-in-ukraine-attend-marches-celebrating-nazi-ss-soldiers/
President Vlodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, condemned the embroidery marches, which had been conducted legally.
“We categorically condemn any manifestation of propaganda of totalitarian regimes, in particular the National Socialist, and attempts to revise truth about World War II,” he said Friday in a statement.
Zelensky lost family members in the Holocaust. Hes no fan of Nazis or the celebration of these soldiers.
@monkeyflower @lds @kiwi @neurovagrant I am honestly surprised and glad to see that he did condemn a celebration of the Wafen SS. Unfortunately the same can't be said about celebrations of other Ukrainian collaborationist groups like the UPA & OUN that actively participated in the Holocaust.
Zelensky does not condemn these organizations, or their leaders, like Bandera of the OUN-B, whose popularity has soared in recent years. I agree with you that he likely has no sympathy for Nazism, problem is, he is a politician, so he has to say things that people want to hear. And unfortunately, many people in Ukraine don't want to hear any criticism of WW2 collaborators.
The article you shared also confirmed what I stated above about the systematic campaign to rehabilitate Nazi collaborators, of which these marches are a small manifestation of.
All over Ukraine roads, bridges and squares have been renamed after collaborators. Statues have been built honouring them, TV shows and films made celebrating them as heroes. School textbooks rewritten which whitewash the history of these collaborators.
I suppose it is slightly harder to whitewash the Ukrainian branch of the Waffen SS, so they've been allowed to be somewhat sidelined as the "bad collaborators".
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