Previously on “Ukes, Kooks & Spooks,” we peeked at the far-right underbelly of M-TAC, Ukraine’s “largest and most powerful brand of clothing and equipment in the tactical and military industry,” that became central to Volodymyr Zelensky’s “de facto uniform” after Russia invaded Ukraine. But “Zelensky branded by fascists?” just scratched the surface.
M-TAC: Nazis “R” Us (archived)
Previously:
This article was originally posted as a thread on Twitter.
The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely “thorny issues,” i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO’s proxy war as a struggle for democracy.
The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops
Related:
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (archived)
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