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Ok, what does that prove? Any post-communist country has a massive problem with fascists/neonazis, but Ukraine has considerably less of them in parliment than any neighboring country. If I recall correctly none of the post-maidan far right parties got any places.
it doesn't prove anything, I was making a joke that in the US a guy running for Senate had straight up Nazi tattoo on him, the problem isn't limited to Eastern Europe.
in fact it seems like the nazism problem in Ukraine is more of a civil society problem, as in rather than getting state crackdowns on speech, if you say the wrong thing you might get a group of patriots showing up at your door to teach you a lesson.
here's a video from a ukrainian communist in kharkiv explaining the issue, translated by a ukrainian from mariupol
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I post things in English because the audience here speaks that.
your response did illustrate my point well though
Oh, k ddnt notice you're a Russian (native?) speaker. So, wanna tell about the Russian civil society and it's situation?
My personal opinion was shaped by being held at gunpoint by FSB and internal border guards on one hand and activist who had to run abroad for their lives, or the ones who did not like Baburova and Markelov on the other, but I'm sure you have a better insight. Like it can't all be state sanctioned neonazi attacks on environmentalist camps, surly there's a lot going on beyond that? I'm not asking about the part in favour in government/spec mil op. I'm asking how is the opposition treated and how that fares against the mentioned Ukrainian experience.