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Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't. Not acknowledging this threat means that little is being done to guard against it. Ukrainian veterans of the Azov...
Mar 31, 2022 · A statement signed by more than 300 historians who study genocide, Nazism and World War II said Putin’s rhetoric about de-Nazifying fascists among Ukraine’s elected leadership is “propaganda.”
Mar 1, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin cited the presence of the Azov regiment, a controversial Ukrainian far-right voluntary military group, as one of the pretexts to invade the eastern European...
Dec 3, 2022 · Russian propagandists are constantly saying Ukraine is full of Nazis, and posting alleged evidence online. DW's fact-checking team has investigated some of this supposed evidence.
The regiment, along with other similar groups, has been central to Russia's narrative that there is a Nazi influence that permeates Ukraine, justifying intervention by the Russian armed forces in efforts to "denazify" it.
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. [1] By September 1941, the German-occupied territory of Ukraine was divided between two new German administrative units, the District of Galicia of the Nazi General Government and the ...
Mar 29, 2022 · “But the majority of Ukrainians today are nationalists,” he said, citing Stepan Bandera, a nationalist figure accused of collaborating with the Nazis against the Soviets at the start of the...
