If you’re German you know this, you know the voters leaving SPD for AfD aren’t doing so because AfD they agree with all of its politics but because they don’t see any other viable options to use and they want to punish the major parties to send a message.
Yeah and we don’t consider protests votes to be Nazis. 2/3rd of the current AfD poll numbers are protest votes btw, 47% want the party outlawed (and among the 47% who don’t are plenty saying “they should be dealt with otherwise”), and 10% of people polled to vote for the AfD want the AfD outlawed.
Back to Ukraine: Svoboda has exactly one seat. They can’t really be hateful Nazis people don’t like that, and they can’t go undercover as patriots either because being a patriot really isn’t a distinguishing factor while the whole democratic spectrum from left to right is fighting at the front.
No it’s not. You are literally falling for the fascist propaganda now. This is one of many methods the fascists in ukraine have successfully laundered his image. You should be very concerned that if it is possible for the Ukrainian nationalists to do this with Bandera it is also possible for the German nationalists to do this with Hitler.
I’ll be concerned if those 70% percent actually come even close to expressing fascist ideas. Again, back to the founding fathers: How many percent in the US see them positively, how many advocate for slavery?
You’re falling in a type of “big man” trap. Just because there was a (or more) big men in the past, and they did stuff, and now their memory is recalled, doesn’t mean that all of their memory is recalled. This is not Bandera controlling people, it’s people looking for some figure to represent national identity and, well, Bandera very much was a nationalist. Currently alive people project things into the past, not the other way around.
Back to Hitler and Germany: No. The conservatives have Bismarck and also Stauffenberg and such, leftists, if patriotic at all, are regionalists.
The use of the word “nazis” here is just to communicate the level of threat really.
No. The choice of words is due to Russian narratives saying “Anyone who opposes us is a Nazi”. I’ve seen too much Russian talking points being uncritically parroted by hexbears to believe otherwise. You know the type, “Kiev is ruled by Nazis” stuff.
Again irrelevant. Ukrainian fascism isn’t nazism.
Svoboda in particular was deeply anti-semitic before they toned it down because nobody liked it. Non-Antisemitic fascists also don’t tend to don Germanic symbolism, but that’s circumstantial.
Moving onto other targets like the high proportion of greeks in Donbass would follow, there have been a number of Greeks in donbass who have spoken out about the Ukrainians attacking them
From all I know that could be a Golden Dawn guy hating Ukrainians. The plural of anecdote is not data and that’s not even a plural. Generally speaking the idea of Ukraine as a multiethnic, and naturally multiethnic state, is very solidly anchored in Ukraine.
…even among the right. Which is why Svoboda and their more ethnophobic lines don’t fly well at all, attracting if at all protest votes. The consensus enemy is the Kremlin, and with the Kremlin actually attacking the previous split between ethnic Russians (“we need to try harder to be friends with them”) and the rest vanished. The Kremlin, unsurprisingly, interprets that as everyone being Nazi because if you’re marching on Moscow (figuratively speaking) you’re a Nazi because that’s what Nazis do.
If Ukraine is oh so Russophobic why do they have a Russian president, and why are very large portions of the army speaking Russian? Including Azov, btw.
You’re being naive again. This is an excuse to honour him, because the people pushing the honouring know what kind of laundering effect it has on the figure and the ideology that figure represents.
Nah it’s choosing an actual patriot over a madman, and giving cultural legitimisation, within the Bundeswehr, to, if need be, assassinate a mad man at the top of the chain of command as an extreme but justified way of fulfilling their oath, to valiantly defend justice and the freedom of the German people. There’s no suitable democrat who, in a position like Stauffenberg’s, tried a similar thing otherwise that guy would be honoured. Bundeswehr tradition is anything but random.
You saw what just tens of thousands of Syrian refugees did to stability in Europe with your own eyes, in particular you must have seen this in Germany.
Syria had little to nothing to do with it things have been brewing in the east for quite a while now. Remember Lichtenhagen? Among other reasons naive eastern Die Linke politicians saying “fascism can’t reach the east because we’re all good socialists”. Prime Marxist analysis, right there, we’ve been telling them from the start that they’re full of shit and got called Besserwessis for it. The issue with the east is that they don’t have decades-long civil society experience combatting fascists because back in the days all politics was party matter, and the party said there were no fascists. The percentage of people with closed right-extreme world view is actually higher in the west than in the east, yet in the east they’re making political inroads (and yes Bernd Höcke is a Wessi. Westphale).