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Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "Ukraine’s Darkest Secret: The Holocaust They Don’t Teach You In Schools" video.
The organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists initally took the axe and Hammer as its symbol. This was partly in parody of the Hammer and Sickle but its main significance was that when pogroms were organised these were the two implements people were told to bring. Their victims would be Poles, Jews, Roma and Russian speaking Ukrainians. This started before Stalin's oppression or Pilduski's coup. The successor organisations to the OAN, like the Asov organisation, continue to revere Bandera and his genocidal comrades. Since the the US-backed coup in 2014, streets have been named after them and statues erected. One of the first acts of the post-coup government was to remove Russian as an official language - effectively making ethnic Russians second-class citizens in their own country. This is why Putin was able to annexe Crimea without any resistance and why he has been able to hang on to the Eastern Oblasts following the failed so-called "Special Military Operation". Putin's invasion was predatory and illegal. It was a war crime for which he should face trial at the Hague. But people should also remember that Ukrainian Nationalism is not the noble cause that our media tries to depict it as.
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