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Stalin was indeed violently antisemitic. See: The "doctor's plot", "Trotskyism", "rootless cosmopolitans", etc. Russian nationalists do indeed idolise him. But

Stalin was indeed violently antisemitic. See: The "doctor's plot", "Trotskyism", "rootless cosmopolitans", etc. Russian nationalists do indeed idolise him. But he wasn't Hitler. That aside, I urge people to look up Stepan Andriyovych Bandera and see that this is yet more Kremlin disinformation. Other Eastern European countries have also had to grapple with the Fascist connections of their so-called freedom fighters and war heroes. Ukraine is not unique in this respect. Hell, even Winston Churchill (a figure revered throughout today's West) was deeply racist towards Indians. Does this reverence towards Churchill mean that the whole West needs to be denazified? Does the Southern US need to be denazified because some of its streets are named after racists like Robert E Lee? I thought that the pro-Putin people were against the "woke mob" taking down statues of controversial figures. Is Putin now woke?

croes 5y ago
So Israel and the European Parliament are now part of Kremlin desinformation? How many indians did Churchill and his followers kill?
- ogogmad 5y ago
  Wikipedia: > In December 2018, the Ukrainian parliament moved to again confer the award on Bandera but the proposal was rejected in August 2019. [emphasis mine] Before that, they had recently voted in Zelenskyy as President, who's Jewish. Also, just to show that this isn't only a Ukraine problem, Romania's Antonescu took up a major role in the Holocaust, but was nevertheless revered as a "freedom fighter" by many Romanians until they were forced to grapple with the man's actions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu#Legacy - The man is no longer honoured by Romanians. It turns out that "freedom fighters" were sometimes complicated or very bad people. Unfortunately, people want their history to be clean and simple, and they choose to forget the ugly bits. They want their heroes to be pure. The Russians are as guilty of this as the Ukrainians and Romanians. Like the Romanians, the Ukrainians have slowly woken up to the magnitude of the crimes committed by their hero Stepan Bandera. I don't think they'll be honouring him anymore. > How many indians did Churchill and his followers kill? Bengali famine.

croes 5y ago

So Israel and the European Parliament are now part of Kremlin desinformation? How many indians did Churchill and his followers kill?

ogogmad 5y ago
Wikipedia: > In December 2018, the Ukrainian parliament moved to again confer the award on Bandera but the proposal was rejected in August 2019. [emphasis mine] Before that, they had recently voted in Zelenskyy as President, who's Jewish. Also, just to show that this isn't only a Ukraine problem, Romania's Antonescu took up a major role in the Holocaust, but was nevertheless revered as a "freedom fighter" by many Romanians until they were forced to grapple with the man's actions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu#Legacy - The man is no longer honoured by Romanians. It turns out that "freedom fighters" were sometimes complicated or very bad people. Unfortunately, people want their history to be clean and simple, and they choose to forget the ugly bits. They want their heroes to be pure. The Russians are as guilty of this as the Ukrainians and Romanians. Like the Romanians, the Ukrainians have slowly woken up to the magnitude of the crimes committed by their hero Stepan Bandera. I don't think they'll be honouring him anymore. > How many indians did Churchill and his followers kill? Bengali famine.