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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by letranger@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml
 

edit: i should make explicit. this meme is prodding at liberals humanizing the soldier of the 14th Waffen SS (1st Galicia) recently honoured in the canadian house of commons. this meme is showing off a ww2 ukrainian nazi unit in a fashion similarly done with the "brave soldiers of afghanistan" who would later become the taliban.

the joke is, we would eventually glorify and humanize them as well with enough time

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[–] letranger@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

excerpt context: after the UA government had decided to add to the list the 110th birthday of nazi collaborator bandera to the list of days worthy of commemoration.

“Glorifying the person whose men committed countless heinous crimes is an insult to the victims and an unthinkable distortion of the history of the world’s most horrific genocide," said Dr. Zuroff.

“Unfortunately in recent years, Ukraine has been one of the major propagators of a distorted version of Holocaust history which seeks to hide or minimize crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists,” he added.

Weitzman added, "It is clear that Ukraine is choosing to rehabilitate antisemitism and to censor history.” He noted that, along with the Bandera national holiday, the Ukrainian region of Lviv announced that 2019 would be “Stepan Bandera Year” and that a book exploring the antisemitic actions of politician Simon Petlura, who led 1919 pogroms against Jews, was banned.

“By joining with other countries that are rewriting history Ukraine is showing how little it has learned from the tragedies of the past. These actions are a disgraceful affirmation of Ukraine’s darkest past and an absolute rejection of democratic values,” Weitzman concluded.

mind you there are streets named him. You aren't even slightly suspicious that maybe the narrative we're being told on MSM is fabricated?

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Presumably both Dr. Efraim Zuroff and Mark Weitzman are ‘Russian trolls’.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Looking at the blinding speed of nazi normalisation in the west, soon they will be called "judeobolsheviks"