Nazis in America / Nazis in Ukraine

Their numbers seem to be growing, and their activity increasing.

A glass panel on the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, has been vandalized for the second time this summer. A 17-year-old boy is in custody after bystanders held him down until police arrived.

Police were alerted at around 6:40pm Monday. The boy being accused of the damage will be charged with willful and malicious destruction of property.

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In June, police say a man named James Isaac, 21, also used a rock to shatter a glass panel on the memorial’s six 54-foot-high towers. Isaac has since pleaded not guilty to vandalism charges.

  RT

Meanwhile, in Ukraine:

The neo-Nazi torchlight processions which are frequently held in post-Maidan Ukraine [...] have received vastly different coverage [than that of Charlottesville] in the Western media – though more often than not, they are completely ignored. Ukrainian far-right activists hold marches each year on January 1, marking the birthday of WWII-era Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who is hailed by many as a national hero.

A 2015 march, for example, received some coverage in the western media, but the neo-Nazi elements of the event were entirely watered down.

The far-right marchers in Ukraine were described in neutral terms: “nationalists” who chanted “patriotic” slogans, and carried torches and “red and black nationalist flags.” While the Ukrainian “nationalist” flag – which represents the ‘Blood and Soil’ ideology – originated in Nazi Germany and was also used in Charlottesville, it was not exposed and condemned as it was in the media coverage of the Charlottesville events.

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[The violent Ukrainian Maidan “revolution” in late 2013 to early 2014] were depicted as cruel oppression against “peaceful protesters,” and the rioters were praised as “brave Ukrainians.”

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Demands to explicitly condemn intentional acts of violence [...] did not apply to the bloodshed in Ukraine.

  RT

Because our media are schizophrenic and Russophobic. We use Ukraine as a blunt object for beating up on Russia. We can't very well admit that Ukraine has a huge far-right, Nazi population.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.