I was mostly asleep for this. He is kinda biased against Russia. He went into Stepan Bandera. Complicated.x
https://youtu.be/qa-wl8_wpZA
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I heard elsewhere how the NAZI movement took hold in modern Ukr. Most Ukr diaspora were not NAZIs but the NAZIs took over the Ukr diaspora organizations then some returned after USSR. They had an outsized influence in Ukr and things got heated in the 2000s. Further, they networked well inside the Ukr military often underground. An enthusiastic minority can have outsized influence. E.g. 1776 American revolutionaries and 1917 Bolsheviks. IMO NAZI stuff is likely illegal in Poland but not uncommon in Ukr.
I recall the source was on dispatches w rania khalek, He is some prof now in istanbul but taught in lvov for 5 years. Cyril somebody.
That seems to dovetail with what I understand.
I found the year old video link. He was good. Speaks at least Tussian, Ukrainian, English and taught in Lvov for 5 years.
https://youtu.be/5C7DE2KFJHs The Origins of Ukraine’s Fascists & Why It Matters, w/
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For those who just discovered Ukraine two months ago, the fact that Ukrainian nationalism has been dangerously intertwined with fascism might sound like Russian propaganda. But is it?
How powerful is the Ukrainian far right? Are they really linked to Nazis? Why is the corporate-owned media denying this?
To place this war and the Ukrainian far right in its historical context, Rania Khalek was joined by Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany, who is currently associate professor of history at Koc University in Istanbul, working on Russian, Ukrainian, and generally East European history.