Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Why Slovakia’s Government Collapsed (and why it’s bad news for Ukraine)" video.

 @BBanzaj Actually this is a indication of a bit of "hive mind" mentality... I'm guessing that this guy owns a few TV stations and regulates the information flow more then a little...
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@axtept66666 Azov is neither fascist nor Nazi from what I understand, they are ultranationalists however... But they have both Jewish and ethnic Russian members. Indeed the majority of Azov has Russian as their primary language. They're mainly hated by Russia because they refuse to accept Russian sovereignty over their homes. Yet they're being compared to certain WW2 organizations... Perhaps you guys should rethink your positions?
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@ivanbrezina7632 Depends on what kind of communists you are talking about... It feels like the ones that decend from the former USSR in some way are pro-Russian while western communists are mixed, partly based on their political heritage. In the west there was a split between the maoists and stalinists and various other communist groups so the political debate on the left was a lot more open. As a result many groups formed principles like anti-imperialism where they criticized, China, Russia and the US in equal measures. Khmer rouge was also a wake up call for quite a few when their activities became public knowledge. Also there's communist and socialist traditions that predate the USSR in many countries too. Our own communists are now in favour of helping Ukraine with weapons although they initially where sceptical because of fears of being dragged into the war if we provoked Russia too much. (Russian intelligence services definitely are trying to influence the far left and far right both with varying results)
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@valcarlin2537 Not Russian speakers in general. Indeed Azov is made up by Russian speakers. Now they are ultra nationalists... And I can definitely imagine them using violence against Russians wishing to join Russia. But there's a nuance difference between that and attacking all Russian speakers for their language alone. Indeed are you aware that the native language of Volodymyr Zelenskyj is Russian and that he had to learn Ukrainian later? Don't believe in Russian state media, it's just lying to you. They've been accusing Ukrainians who wants independence or even just to preserve their own culture of Nazism since the second world war under the Soviets, not because there's any truth in it, but to use it as propaganda in order to justify violence and other injustices against them to the Russian people. And honestly it's ironic that Russia talks about Nazism in other countries given that the ideology of Putin and his party is awfully close to facism itself. Nazism might be illegal on paper, but it's not the ideology itself that's banned, just dissagreement with the state. And using the term is a useful technique to silence critique...
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@zdeneknovak5276 Nazies you say? They are "Nazies" how exactly? The majority of them are ethnic Russians that speak Russian as their first language. So it's not about hate for ethnic Russians... They have plenty of Jewish members too... They are ultranationalists. And do have a far right history politically. But we're not talking anything more extreme then the potential bedfellows mentioned in this video, and they've moderated significantly in recent years even if they started out that way. People who believe in arming themselves to defend their country from agressors have a tendency towards being right wing as strengthening the governments capability to use force is usually a right wing position in politics in general and so is trying to maintain the status quo rather than accept the potential of change, even if there's exceptions in some countries. A left wing approach tends to be to make allies instead reducing the military needs of the individual members of the alliance. Think of it a bit like the game democracy, you'll want to increase your own voter base by growing the demographics that are likely to vote for you at the cost of the ones that probably won't. When highly motivated troops where needed it makes sense to use them. I oppose the far right in my own country too. But if they're willing to give their life in the defense of my country (that also borders Russia) I'd be more them happy to let them.
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@valcarlin2537 Fighting alongside the Nazies in WW2 doesn't necessarily mean that you are one. Just look at Finland for instance. The USSR always tried to paint the opposition as being foreign influences or attached to their foreign enemies. It gave them a pretext for persecution. With such a hostile force as the Soviets and now Russia to deal with the enemy of my enemy ends up being my friend. Finland faught to regain territory lost in the winter war as a co-belligerent but not a axis member (never signed the treaty). And likewise when trying to achieve Ukrainian independence after having their language and culture suppressed as has happened many times since the Russians started treating "Rus" as being a single ethnicity instead of a collective term for all Slavic people as it used to be used as at the time of the principality of Moscow if I don't remember wrong, and started acting as if they where the rightful rulers of all Slavs. Refusing to acknowledge that the Kievian Rus where not a single ethnic group but rather a state with many ethnicities, made up of many tribes that had faught each other in the past. (Edit, okey, sorry about the long sentence, just too tired to fix it right now) Yet now Moscow was supposed to rule over all the other Slavic peoples and only the culture of Moscow where to live on... Obviously this didn't go down too well with peoples who didn't belong to their culture... Who had their languages and cultures suppressed in attempts at Russification... Crimea and much of eastern Ukraine used to be Ukrainian speaking, but isn't anymore. Between settlement of Russians there and suppression of Ukrainian culture... And indeed the intentional death of many Ukrainians... Still every part of Ukraine, even Crimea voted to leave the USSR and had a majority in favour of independence, although it was awfully close in Crimea (54,19% in favour of independence in Crimea vs 90,13% in Kherson, 83,90% in Donetsk, 83,86% in Lugansk etc)
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 @Jafantant What are you saying "what" to if I may ask?
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 @ЯрославКовальчук-и9ь How common what is?
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@valcarlin2537 The enemy of my enemy is my friend." A lot of people faught alongside them without sharing their ideology. As a result they where most definitely not "Nazies". There where some that did share their ideology too of course. But that's a different matter. As for Azov and indeed also Crimea. It's more complicated then that. And I believe you know that. And every part of Ukraine, even Crimea voted for independence from the USSR. In Crimea 54,19% of the voters voted for independence, compared to over 80% in all other parts of Ukraine. As for being a part of Russia... Yes, but that doesn't make them Russian. Russia is a empire with many ethnic groups and land areas forcefully kept a part of it against their will from the very start. A majority of the land that's acknowledged as Russian territory is not Russian, just Russian occupied, popilated by peoples unable to break free for various reasons. While Russia actively practices russification with local cultures often being suppressed. How much depends on their relative power compared to Russia to some degree. For instance suppressing one branch of Islam in favour of another in order to maintain Russian control as a example.
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@valcarlin2537 While the similarities between Nazies and ultranationalists can be eerie sometimes it's still different ideologies. Just like communists, anarchists and socialists are all different forms of left wing ideologies. (Well, there's different branches of anarchism, there's right wing directions of anarchism too)
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@valcarlin2537 Likewise there's a difference between being a communist and a Stalinist. I'm not saying that there's no issues with Azov, but calling them names that has nothing to do with their actual ideology does more harm then good. And acting as if that's a excuse for Russias behavior is even worse.
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