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View submission: Ukrainian thoughts on Azov
TL;DR most of the extremist elements are completely gone, none of them seemed to care that ppl were Jewish, there were Orthodox Jews serving w/ them, and in Ukraine nationalism (because of a horrific history vs Russia) isn't the same as anti-semitism. There's a lot of nationalistic and far-right-ish guys who are not necessarily anti-semitic. They did cleaning of their own ranks and now that they are official military are held to higher standards & policed.
Comment by Gombacska at 20/03/2022 at 02:46 UTC
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Nationalism isn't the same as antisemitism not just in Ukraine but everywhere. Nationalism has nothing to do with antisemitism, or even with xenophobia. It sounds like someone somewhere along the line conflated nazis with nationalists, it happens an awful lot.