Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots...
by yamtaddle on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:21PM
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My understanding was that they do have a neo-Nazi militia that was incorporated into the official army, and they made at least some effort to clean them up a bit, after that. This happened because the militia rose up and started having significant success against the Russians in 2014 while the Ukrainian army was struggling, so there was a "the enemy of my enemy..." aspect. Whether they have any sway over, say, policy, I do not know.
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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots...
by marshray on Friday September 16, 2022 @04:06PM
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> Whether they have any sway over, say, policy, I do not know.
Far-right political parties only got ~2% of the votes in elections. Not enough for even a single seat in Parliament.
If there still are any Nazis in Ukraine, their influence is much smaller than the far-right factions in Poland or France.