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struggle4progress

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Sat Feb 26, 2022, 05:19 PM Feb 2022

Putin using 'Nazi' narrative to justify attack [View all]

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



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