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The Ukraine War at one year

Spectre of Communism

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Is Russia Exaggerating the Role of the Far Right in Ukraine?

Russia's stated war aims originally was to de-natsify Ukraine. But it is also clearly true that far right elements are prominent in the Ukrainian states. The new Nazi elements played a key role in the Maidan movement, he says. This doesn't mean that everyone in Ukraine is neo-Nazi, but it's also true that the Russian invasion has pushed a lot of the population behind Ukrainian nationalism.

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