Why Putin’s claims of ‘denazification’ in Ukraine are little more than propaganda.
It is thought some fighters are now joining because of its reputation on the battlefield rather than political reasons, but the regiment is still has many Nazis in its ranks.
Ukraine’s modern history, which saw people collaborating with Nazi Germany to resist the Soviets, has also played in to this stereotyping of the country. ‘When you look at what the Jewish community say today in Ukraine they say there has really been a change. As political strategist Yuri Vanetik puts it, the word Nazi ‘immediate creates an archetype’ that the Russian public can easily identify with.
This idea takes a disturbing form in a recent propaganda piece published by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. The piece, written by Timofei Sergeitsev, adds: ‘A significant part of the population, which are passive Nazis, accomplices of Nazism, are also guilty.
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