The grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, worked for a Nazi newspaper that recruited for the Galicia Division of the Waffen-SS — the same division as Yaroslav Hunka, the Nazi who was recently honored by Canada’s Parliament.
I’ll return the favor. I agree that Russian goverment is totalitarian and autocratic, with a touch of cult of personality. I’d consider it fascist and blatantly racist. But not Nazi, there’s no need for that term.
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Yup, fascism is a way better term. Doesn’t get confused with other political blends.
For instance Stalin and Putin have very different political ideologies (and Hitler for that matter) however the term fascism fits them all.
Gets rid of the historical discussion of both Russia and Ukraine being on which side as well.
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Stalin believed he was a communist. Some people even but into that today. He actually wrote a lot to have communism fit his particular brand of authoritarianism.
Putin is more nihilistic. He believes that he can recreate tsar Peters’ Russia. Or so I think, he doesn’t really publicize his ideas.
Of course calling each other Nazi is absurd. Why not Putinist? Why did evil today need bear the name of what evil was ninety years ago? Call them murderers racists, kidnappers. Why do we feel we need the term Nazi?
Look if they all start wearing SS uniforms, singing the Horst Wessel song, start obscure groups of Germanic mythology and read mein Kampf, then you can call them Nazi. This is an evil that needs a new name.
Because otherwise the other side will always point at the Ukrainians that did help the Nazis and say ‘you did that too!’ And that’s a useless discussion.
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That’s exactly what I say.
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Noi don’t. I didn’t call the leadership of the Ukraine totalitarian, you are obviously misreading me.
All in saying that it’s unhelpful to call either side Nazi.
I’m up for calling the Russian regime all the other names (authoritarian, totalist). If you listen to Zelenski, he doesn’t call the Russians Nazis, why? Because you get stuck in historical rethoric.
Just call them Russians. That should become the new bad guy word. Read back what I said, and you’ll see.