Far-right movements ( and neo-nazis) exist all-over the world and in every continent, unfortunately. But it’s also all about context, which I’m completely missing here. The right is on the rise everywhere, it seems.
Nothing new under the sun, except that the way it’s described is as if the West is " whitewashing this" (does this mean the East is not?!l), is rather exaggerated and one sided imo; and favourable to Russian propaganda.
The Asov regiment, history and political ideas have been covered many many times in Western media, no secrets there. And so have many other right-winged developments been equally covered.
The myth that far-right zealots run Ukraine is Russian propaganda.
The West’s inability to properly understand the Azov movement has led to the spread of damaging anti-Ukraine propaganda in the media, Alexander Ritzmann writes."
They should also expose the extreme-right networks and actors in Russia, which do exist in much larger numbers than in Ukraine.
Because ignoring dangerous organisations like the Russian Imperial Movement or the Wagner private military company while focusing on and confusing Azov plays perfectly into Putin’s war-propaganda strategy and only serves to hurt the Ukrainian people they are trying to protect.