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Originally Posted by blankall
Does anyone outside of Russia (or possibly one of Putin's puppet states) support Russia's war in the Ukraine? I'd be curious to see what the rationale is. Putin's line is that Ukraine is not a democracy at all, but some kind of Neo-Nazi state trying to force themselves upon the Ukrainians who yearn for liberation. It's totally non-sensical.
Use of the Nazi rhetoric seems almost like a way to personally attack the Ukrainian president, who is Jewish and lost most of his relatives in the holocaust.
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A lot of this though is for home consumption, a significant amount of Ukrainians joined the Nazi's in the war and so it's a potent dog whistle to get support for older Russians brought up on Soviet history lessons in school, I can remember the hatred my Uncles and grandparents had for the Germans and Japanese as they had all lived through the war, there is a whole generation like me that is to young to have experianced the war but was still none the less influenced heavily by it