Do i think the vast majority of people in the uprising against the Pro-Russian gov are fascists? No. Hell i agreed with their uprising. However stating that i am not so blind to not see that there are fascistic elements in the uprising.
As Lord Acton said long time ago, all morality is based on the sense of proportion.
There are some people both you (a democratic socialist) and I (a right-wing libertarian) would characterize, negatively, as "fascist" most everywhere - on Maidan, in Seattle, in Boston, in Kansas, in the Polish Sejm, in the Japanese Diet, etc.
Does it mean we should be taking the side of fascism - much more pronounced, unabashed, on its way to being institutionalized - that is naturally hostile toward Maidan, Sejm and Kansas alike?
No, really, read a speech - any speech - by the "Russian" vice-speaker of the Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Not fascist enough for you?
In the last programmatic "historical" speech Mr. Putin was using terms like "national-traitors" - for the poor souls who dared to point out the contradictory and nonsensical nature of the official narrative of the Crimean aggression. A straight facsimile from
Main Kampf, by the way. No worries? Even with the background of a text-book reproduction of the Sudetenland situation, 1938?
Newspapers and radio stations are being closed.
Nah, all normal? Organizing (no definition) of unrest (no definition) becomes a felony.
Whistle?. Tenured professors of top universities are being fired for saying wrong things publicly.
Who cares?
And this is not the revolutionary Ukraine, of course. This is Russia today.
Oh, but look - a squirrel!!! - some Ukrainian youngster representing a mighty 0.01% of the general population thinks Stepan Bandera was a good guy. THAT IS HORRIBLE!!!!!
Unbelievable.
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