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Re:Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Is... by yellowapple on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:55PM (#36201304)
The article's silence on the Nazi symbolism displayed among those fighting on the Russian side paints a picture of "Ukrainians are not as averse to Nazi symbols as Western sensibilities dictate" rather than the more accurate picture of "soldiers are not as averse to Nazi symbols as Western sensibilities dictate". The article's focus on Ukrainian personnel not satisfying said sensibilities and ostensibly supporting Russia's propaganda entirely misses the bigger point: Russia's propaganda is hypocritical projection and can be dismissed entirely.
Re:Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Is... by lisasays on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:59PM (#36206151)
It's quite possible for both the Russian narrative to be empty, hypocritical propaganda and for Ukraine to have a weird, throwback adulation of its collaborationist past (or at least a blithe ignorance of why all these monuments, street renamings, tchotchkes etc could possibly be any kind of a problem) across a disturbingly broad swath of its society.