DISINFO: Zelenskyy is only a marketing operation, a Jewish face for a Nazi regime
SUMMARY
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a marketing operation, and having a Jewish face for a Nazi regime is part of it.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Nazi Ukraine and president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has been actively used by the pro-Kremlin outlets for years to denigrate Ukraine.
In 2015 Ukraine issued a ban on Nazi and Communist ideologies. The far-right groups had a limited presence during the Euromaidan protests and have suffered defeats in every national election since, with a united front of all radical right-wing parties in the 2019 parliamentary elections winning only 2.15% of the vote falling far short of the 5% minimum guaranteeing entry into parliament.
See other examples of similar disinformation in our database, such as claims that the Ukrainian crisis was caused by the West’s disregard for neo-Nazi’s crimes, that Ukraine is under the external control of the US and the EU, that Zelenskyy is unable to make independent decisions and dances to the tune of the US, or that Nazi ideology is evident in Ukrainian schools.