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Re:The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the ... by ragyheb on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:53AM (#42399612)
Not possible, it is banned in some parts of the EU. Publicly funded German TV is available, however. This is from the German equivalent of the BBC, titled "Coup in Kiev: What role did the fascists play?":

https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/archiv/2014/...

It uses the word "coup", but then says that the majority of the protesters demonstrated for a free Ukraine and were against the corruption of Yanukovich.

The rest of the article is about the Swoboda party, which is ultranationalist and had good contacts to the German NPD. The NPD is a fringe party without any substantial numbers of voters that is classified as ultra right wing.

It then mentions a Neonazi (their words) called Jarosch and his party "Right Sector". It goes on to say that the "Right Sector" was instrumental in ousting the old regime physically on the barricades.

It says that the members then established new security forces that replaced the police.

What does the BBC say?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

The same U.S. that complains about election interference in Romania is picking candidates in Ukraine after the revolution.

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Re:The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the ... by aguaviva on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:56AM (#42406248)
The NPD is a fringe party without any substantial numbers of voters

As is Svoboda, these days.

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Re:The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the ... by rgaht on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:01PM (#42410241)
It is, and that talking point is listed on united24media.com. But this subthread, where someone was accused of watching RT, was about the events leading up to the Maidan uprising.
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Re:The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the ... by aguaviva on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:25PM (#42410430)
Actually, to the extent that it was about Ukraine, the entry point was that day's version of the "because NATO" thread. When that hit a wall (as it always does), someone flipped it over the "Nazi puppet regime" narrative.
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