Putin using 'Nazi' narrative to justify attack

[struggle4progress]

Feb. 24, 2022, 2:21 PM EST
By David K. Li, Jonathan Allen and Corky Siemaszko

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday peddled accusations of Nazi elements within Ukraine to justify the attack ...

... Putin said he's striving for "the demilitarization and denazification of" the sovereign democracy ... a particularly jarring accusation given that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish and lost three family members in the Holocaust ...

In the most recent Ukrainian parliamentary elections in 2019, a coalition of ultranationalist right-wing parties failed to win even a single seat in the Rada, the country's 450-member legislature ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-claims-denazification-justify-russias-attack-ukraine-experts-say-rcna17537

[dalton99a]

1. It is his Big Lie

[Behind the Aegis]

2. There are those who LOVE painting Jews as Nazis.

Makes their anti-Semitism more palatable, or so they convince themselves. This is Goebbels level propaganda.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. This

Three of Zelensky's great uncles died in the Holocaust.

Putin - Just like magats. You know what they are based on projection.

[BlueIdaho]

7. This x 1,000

[ck4829]

3. Some real "Antifa are the REAL fascists" vibes

[uponit7771]

6. Putler is petulantly using similar excuse to attack UKR as Bush 2 did to attack Iraq down to the

... "they're building nukes" bullshit.

He KNOWS what he is saying is bullshit after the Nazi bullshit didn't fly

[maxsolomon]

4. the Azov Brigade

it is heavily represented in Russian propaganda, all over the world.

plenty of Mericans believe it, too. I've seen it on FB (from people I don't know).

[mitch96]

8. The only thing I can think of that Putin is relating to is during WW2, some Ukrainians sided

with the Nazi against russia... After Stalin killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930's I see their point. After the Nazi showed their true colors the Ukrainians fought the Nazi..
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Nazi-occupation-of-Soviet-Ukraine

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[Bad Thoughts]

9. "Khazars"

Russians tend to use an antisemitic slur in order to get away with accusing Jews, especially from Ukraine, of being Nazis.

The slur comes from the pseudo-scientific theory that all European Jews are descendants of the medieval Khazars, a Turkic kingdom whose nobility supposedly converted to Judaism in order to maintain balance between Christians and Muslims. (There is scant historical evidence this happened or how deeply it happened.)

Russians will talk about "Khazar mobsters" as a destabilizing, criminal force, allowing them to say other antisemitic things, but avoiding the stain of antisemitism. According to them, Khazars infiltrate European governments and enterprises.