'Denazification' in Ukraine

[speak easy]

This is Boris Romanchenko. He survived four different nazi concentration camps - last Friday he was killed by the Russians in his home in Kharkiv.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tj8xeu/this_is_boris_romanchenko_he_survived_four/

[speak easy]

1. ...

[meadowlander]

2. Denazification begins at home.

[SheltieLover]

3. Sure does!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Putin fell into classic dictator trap: made system corrupt then surprised it lies & is corrupt

But Putin is not surprised at the brutality. That is by design and construction. Another part of the dictator trap: ruthlessness is the only way they survive. Until it bites them. The bite is coming, PutZ.

[ffr]

8. +1 At home in U.S. congress too.

Somehow the Russians are getting elected to positions in our government. We must put an end to this.

[liberalla]

4. OMG

In his own home!

just so wrong...

[calimary]

5. Just so wrong...

[ffr]

7. Now that Russian Nazi's are in Ukraine, they must be removed.

We cannot have Russian Nazi's killing people of any denomination, let alone Russian Nazi's that have set out to kill Jews.

I can only imagine what Putin has cooked up for the hostages he's set away to Russian concentration camps.

This is horrible!

[DENVERPOPS]

9. How about the same being said for the U.S.?????????

WASF

[gordianot]

10. Ivan Ilyin is Putin's Philosopher.

Required reading in Putin’s State he even repatriated his body to Russia. Ilyin was a major Nazi collaborator with a grudge against Ukraine. Putin is living his dream.

[bobacatt]

11. Soviet citizens were taught to take great pride

In having defeated Nazism in the war they know as the Great Patriotic War. (Partly this was useful propaganda to keep people proud when they were impoverished; partly it served to keep people from knowing that a lot of the Russian dead were killed by Stalin not Germany.). WW2 heroism is a touchstone of the Russian people. At least it was until 1991. And I am guessing this hasn’t changed.

Putin’s “Denazification” nonsense is just him tapping this vein of Russian historic pride - “Remember the heroism of our country in the 1940’s, when we saved the world? We are the nation that stops Nazis. We must do it again.”

It is just smart propaganda. Putin doesn’t actually believe it. But his followers probably do.