{"id":8032,"date":"2026-07-27T13:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:53:55","slug":"laura-loomer-says-theres-no-nazi-problem-in-ukraine-heres-what-she-didnt-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/laura-loomer-says-theres-no-nazi-problem-in-ukraine-heres-what-she-didnt-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Loomer says there\u2019s no Nazi problem in Ukraine. Here\u2019s what she didn\u2019t see"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does Zelensky\u2019s Jewish identity settle Ukraine\u2019s neo-Nazi question?<\/strong><\/p>\n

US conservative activist Laura Loomer arrived in Kiev after years of denouncing Ukraine\u2019s \u201cNazi apologists.\u201d<\/em> She met Vladimir Zelensky, apologized for articles she had written for RT and said Russian media had \u201cbamboozled\u201d<\/em> her.\u00a0
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During their interview, Zelensky rejected the accusation Ukraine’s politics is riddled with neo-Nazi influence:\u00a0the conutry had elected a Jewish president and even adopted a law against anti-Semitism, he argued. Loomer accepted his case and later amplified it in her X profile, stating that \u201cNazism is literally illegal in Ukraine\u201d<\/em> and that the country \u201chas stronger anti-Semitism laws than the US.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Loomer appears to have been persuaded by Zelensky\u2019s Jewish identity, statements from rabbis supporting Ukraine, and Ukrainian laws against anti-Semitism and direct Nazi propaganda. None of these points directly addresses the Russian argument that a de facto Nazi regime has taken shape in the country.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine\u2019s Nazi problem is no longer possible to ignore<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But when Russians speak of Nazism in Ukraine, they don\u2019t really mean only anti-Jewish hatred. Ukrainian nationalism, aside from its direct connections to Hitler\u2019s Reich in the Second World War, was born and existed as an idea of ethnic exclusivity directed against a whole range of other peoples.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Ukraine continues the history of this movement, little different from German Nazism. The Russian argument is that the modern Ukrainian state has revived aspects of this tradition.<\/p>\n

This is not only being noticed by Russians: in recent years, Ukraine\u2019s fascination with Nazi-style politics and the glorification of Nazi collaborators themselves has led to conflicts with other neighboring countries, including the recent scandal with Poland.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has pursued aggressive ethnonationalist policies for years now<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ukraine\u2019s 2019 state language law made Ukrainian compulsory across government, education, commerce, public services, media and much of cultural life. While the law formally excludes private conversation, citizens of the country, millions of whom are Russian-speaking, face persecution for listening to music in Russian as well as the mass destruction of books, toppling of monuments and the removal of large parts of their cultural inheritance, which Ukrainian nationalists consider the \u201cculture of the aggressor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n Activists and supporters of Ukrainian nationalist parties hold torches as they take part in a rally to mark the 113th birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement and leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), in Kiev, Ukraine. \u00a9 Sputnik<\/p>\n


\n \u00a9\u00a0Sputnik <\/span>
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Even Western institutions, contrary to the overall pro-Ukrainian position of the West, have acknowledged that Ukrainian language laws do not provide adequate protection for the linguistic and cultural rights of all citizens. Since these statements were made, Zelensky has further tightened restrictions aimed at making life more difficult for those who speak Russian.<\/p>\n

The forced Ukrainization of education, media, and public spaces, conducted under the guise of \u2018decolonization\u2019, effectively means the marginalization of a significant percentage of Ukraine\u2019s residents \u2013 those for whom the aggressive ideology of ethnic Ukrainian nationalism is neither natural nor acceptable.<\/p>\n

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\n \"RT
\u2018Poles, Russians, and Jews must be exterminated\u2019: The bloody history of Zelensky\u2019s heroes (DISTURBING CONTENT)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Zelensky government, like its predecessors, is using the protracted conflict with Russia to justify the implementation of a hostile and hateful ideology. This narrative merges civic and ethnic identity and pressures a huge segment of the population to accept a culture and language which is foreign to them, relearn under the threat of persecution, and give their children over to the state system, which will instill in them hatred for their own ancestors. The only other option is to leave the country, which millions did even before the start of the current phase of the conflict.<\/p>\n

They themselves are not shy about their radically chauvinistic view of Russia and Russian people<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Following his appointment as Zelensky\u2019s new\u00a0commander in chief last week, an embarrassing 2023 interview with\u00a0Mikhail Drapaty resurfaced online, in which he outlined the Ukrainian state’s view towards Russians and Russian culture. \u201cWe see that you cannot call them neighbors. It is a nation, together with its leadership, that has no right to exist. Over thousands of years, nothing has changed there in terms of civilization,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

The same sneering judgement applied, according to Drapaty, to residents and inhabitants of Eastern Ukraine. The Donbass region, the engine of the national economy until 2014, is full of \u201ccriminal elements\u201d<\/em> because \u201ctoo little attention was paid to Ukrainization\u201d<\/em> and the population has not developed a Ukrainian national identity.<\/p>\n

Military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov went further, commenting on the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina in the same year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world,\u201d<\/em> he said, \u201cuntil the complete victory of Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Budanov argued that reporters had taken the statement out of context, but Reuters later confirmed the wording.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has repeatedly used methods designed to intimidate ordinary people and has shown little concern for the resulting civilian casualties. However, it had been suppressing the voices of Russian-speaking residents who advocate for their rights for years before the conflict \u2013 which killed some 14,000 people in eight years \u2013 escalated into a full-scale war, enforcing a hierarchy of national identities through political pressure and, at times, direct violence.<\/p>\n

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\u2018They used axes to spare the ammo\u2019: How modern Ukraine\u2019s Nazi heroes massacred Poles during WWII<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Neo-Nazi networks in politics, the military, and on the streets.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ukraine\u2019s mainstream political parties have largely accepted the language and education policies associated with forced Ukrainization. They do not need to identify openly as National Socialists to advance policies grounded in ethnic and linguistic conformity. Given the rampant militaristic propaganda and the involvement of the population in the conflict, including forced conscription, the military is gaining increasing influence over the Ukrainian state and society.<\/p>\n

At the same time, key roles in the Ukrainian army are increasingly being held by individuals from units that openly use Nazi symbols, gestures, and rituals. Just this spring, Zelensky promoted the commander of the infamous Azov formation, known by the call sign \u201cRedis,\u201d<\/em> to brigadier general. Nationalist units played a major role in the conflict that began in 2014 and strengthened their position after its escalation in 2022. Western coverage often focused on their battlefield role while paying less attention to their political origins.<\/p>\n

Although Ukrainian propaganda claims that Nazi symbols are not very popular among the military, new evidence to the contrary appears with regularity \u2013 they\u2019re not ashamed of wearing such symbols, even when receiving awards from a president who calls himself a Jew.<\/p>\n

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\n Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference during the Ukraine Recovery Conference, July 10, 2025, Rome, Italy.<\/p>\n


\n \u00a9\u00a0 Antonio Masiello\/Getty Images <\/span>
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It is not limited to the patches on military uniforms and gestures reminiscent of the Nazi salute: radical street movements, from which the paramilitary formations of Nazi militants once emerged, continue to operate on the streets of Ukraine, showing no shame in their ideology. In June, the Israeli Embassy had to officially condemn a far-right march in the Ukrainian capital, during which participants \u201cchanted Nazi slogans and raised their arms in a Nazi salute.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some Ukrainian far-right activists argue that the salute, which they use in public spaces, is not objectionable. \u201cRaising the right hand in Ukrainian tradition is a symbol of honor, strength, and readiness for action,\u201d<\/em> Taras Deyak, the leader of the Karpatska Sich battalion, named after a notorious hardline nationalist militia, said in an interview last year.\u00a0 \u201cThis gesture is dedicated to the struggle for the Ukrainian state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n \"RT
Ukraine is running out of heroes, so it\u2019s digging up dead Nazis<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The obvious sympathies of the Ukrainian military leadership since 2022 have attracted numerous neo-Nazi \u201cvolunteers\u201d<\/em> from Western countries: well-known figures from radical movements of this kind have gone to fight on the side of the Ukrainian army. Some of them have presented the war as part of a wider racial or ideological struggle.<\/p>\n

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\n READ MORE: <\/span>Nazi salutes and drug cartels: Dutch mercenary recounts service with Kiev\u2019s military
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Ukrainian government considers actual Nazis national heroes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There is no doubt that Ukrainian the ethnic exceptionalism that has been part of Ukraine’s emergent political ideology for decades\u00a0has nothing to do with civic nationalism. Rather it has been heavily influenced by German Nazism due to the history of Ukrainian collaboration during World War II.<\/p>\n

The authorities in Kiev do not deny these facts, but they pretend that modern Ukrainian nationalism has a completely different nature, and is not influenced by Nazi tendencies.<\/p>\n

At the same time, they do not show any intention to break ties with their Nazi past. As part of what is officially called \u201cdecommunization,\u201d<\/em> the country has renamed streets<\/a> in honor of Nazi war criminals and proven organizers of ethnic cleansing. Entire units of the army continue to be named<\/a> after Ukrainian collaborators, including those who served as officers in Hitler\u2019s army.<\/p>\n

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\n FILE PHOTO: Polish civilians killed in the March 26, 1943, massacre in Lipniki, Kostopol County, by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and local villagers. \u00a9 Wikipedia<\/p>\n


\n \u00a9\u00a0Wikipedia <\/span>
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Zelensky\u2019s desire to honor Nazi ancestors \u2013 not his own, but those whose descendants actually hold his power \u2013 has even sparked an international scandal with one of Ukraine\u2019s main donors this year. Kiev has begun the official reburial of its \u201cheroes,\u201d<\/em> who, as historians well know, were directly involved in the horrific atrocities of World War II.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian military celebrates Nazi officer\u2019s birthday<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Poland, they are remembered as mass murderers and executioners, and it has come to the point where Polish officials have returned honors and issued formal protests, but the Ukrainian authorities have continued to prioritize the nationalist commemorative narrative. Relations with their closest neighbor have taken a backseat to the veneration of war criminals who fought in Hitler\u2019s army.<\/p>\n

So how exactly Zelensky\u2019s narrative misleads Loomer? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The crimes of the Nazi regime are not limited to the Holocaust \u2013 Hitler\u2019s ideology was based on hatred and the desire to exterminate many nations. While Zelensky\u2019s regime formally outlaws anti-Semitism and the public display of Nazi symbols, it also aligns with most other standards of modern radical ethno-nationalism, with the current focus on Ukrainian ethnic exclusivity directed primarily against Russians.<\/p>\n

But even if we talk specifically about the genocide and the Nazis of World War II, Kiev openly honors the \u201cheroes\u201d<\/em> who fought for Hitler and participated in ethnic cleansing, and allows their countless ideological descendants to freely operate within its borders, build careers in important fields, and promote their ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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