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Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No-Yes
Lawrence, Patrick
http://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/07/patrick-lawrence-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-no-yes-no-yes/Date Written: 2023-06-07 Publisher: Consortium News Year Published: 2023 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24893 A New York Times' reporter's job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think. Abstract: - Excerpt: now we have the case of Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a square-jawed former Marine covering the Ukraine war for the Times -- strictly to the extent the Kyiv regime permits him to do so, as he explains with admirable honesty. This guy is serious times 10, he and his newspaper want us to know. Tom's job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia, idolizing Jew-murdering, Russophobic collaborators with the Third Reich, gathering ritually in Nazi-inspired cabals, marching through Kyiv in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think. Nah, our Tom tells us. They look like neo-Nazis, they act like neo-Nazis, they dress like neo-Nazis, they profess Fascist and neo-Nazi ideologies, they wage this war with the Wehrmacht's visceral hatred of Russians -- O.K., but whyever would you think they are neo-Nazis? They are just regular guys. They wear the Wolfsangel, the Schwarze sonne, the black sun, the Totenkopf, or Death's Head -- all Nazi symbols -- because they are proud of themselves, and these are the kinds of things proud people wear. I was just wearing mine the other day. Subject Headings |