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[CoccoBill]

One neo-nazi Mayor of a town of 85000 people in a country of 44 million doesn't imo say anything about widespread nazi-sympathizing. Yeah there's probably thousands willing to vote for them or turn a blind eye to it, but that's likely true for quite a few countries.

[OngBonga]

One neo-nazi Mayor of a town of 85000 people in a country of 44 million doesn't imo say anything about widespread nazi-sympathizing. Yeah there's probably thousands willing to vote for them or turn a blind eye to it, but that's likely true for quite a few countries.

I mean, you could either expect me to conduct a lot of research on various Ukrainian politicians, and post my findings for your reading pleasure, or you could do it yourself if you're interested to know if Nazism is legitimately a problem in Ukrainian politics and society.

You're right, one guy tells only a tiny part of the story. I don't know the whole story. I'm learning more this last week about Ukrainian politics, WWII and Soviet history than I ever did at school.

I've seen plenty of images of Twitter of Ukraine flags with swastikas but I haven't bothered posting them because I lack any basic context.

People seem to be dismissing the problems Ukraine has with Nazism for no reason other than Putin is saying it. That's what it looks like to me.