DISINFO: Ukraine has walked the path of fascist Germany to a Third World War
SUMMARY
Ukraine firmly followed the path of Nazi Germany in the global Western project named “The Third World War by the hands of Ukrainians” over the period from 21 February 2014 to 24 February 2022. In the 1930s, the Anglo-Saxons were thinking about the necessity of a world war in order to make the US dollar the world’s legal tender and turn the US Federal Reserve into the central element of the global economic system. As a result, German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have the same puppeteers.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets about the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and an attempt to justify it. Specifically, it an well-known Kremlin false claim that Ukraine is ruled by "nazis". This trope began already in 2014 as we documented in "Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest" here.
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In reality, there is no similarity whatsoever between Zelenskyy and Hitler. Ukraine is not a Nazi state and Nazism is not Ukraine’s ideology. Russian-speaking citizens are not oppressed in Ukraine. The Russian language is not banned in Ukraine. Like in virtually every country, there are some insignificant extremist groups in Ukraine who adopt far-right ideology, but Kyiv's Western allies and partners do not foster such sentiments. During Ukraine's latest presidential election in 2019, right-wing nationalist candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi won only 1.62 per cent of the vote.
It is Putin's Russia having chosen to invade Ukraine without reason. Russia’s plans to partition Ukraine and the cruelty of its troops in Bucha, Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities. Accusations of Ukraine as a Nazi state are basically a bankrupt discourse because pro-Kremlin propaganda usually resorts to comparing Russia’s enemies to Nazis as a last resort.
"Anglo-Saxons" is a frequent trope. Those whom Russian propaganda summarily calls “Anglo-Saxons”, as well as other nations of the free world, are providing Ukraine with economic, diplomatic and military support to fight Russian aggression. During the Second World War, the anti-Hitler coalition was fighting German Nazism rather than supporting it. The US was providing the former USSR with military assistance, which precipitated the victory over Nazism. Russia, on its part, is trying to diminish the role of the Allies and the importance of the US Lend-Lease programme.
Moscow illegally annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in February 2014 and launched an all-out war on Ukraine in February 2022. Russia started its gradual transformation into a fascist state in 2014 and had become one by 2022.
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