DISINFO: Europe is tempted to support Neo-Nazi movements
SUMMARY
Today in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, we see these neo-Nazi movements coming back to the fore, we see this temptation coming back in Europe to support these Neo-Nazi movements. We've seen where Nazism led in the 30s and 40s. It is important to remember that USA, Great Britain fought along with Soviet Union to crush Nazism.
It is fundamental for European civilization to survive the cataclysm that it is itself creating, that European leaders open their eyes again to ask themselves if really today after so many years it is necessary to fall again under the thumb of the same danger.
The problem is that today France and Germany supply weapons to Ukraine and they train its battalions which have neo-Nazi symbols, who have neo-Nazi slogans and who don't hide it. The problem is to know around what is this Union built. Are these the European values in Ukraine? If we answer yes, unfortunately, both France and Germany are returning to the "European values" of the 1930s and in this sense France is denying its roots.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Nazi Ukraine, used in this case to justify invasion of Ukraine.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has been actively used by the pro-Kremlin outlets as one of the favorite tropes for years to denigrate Ukraine.
In 2015 Ukraine issued a ban on Nazi and Communist ideologies. The far-right groups had a limited presence during the Euromaidan protests and have suffered defeats in every national election since, with a united front of all radical right-wing parties in the 2019 parliamentary elections winning only 2.15% of the vote falling far short of the 5% minimum guaranteeing entry into parliament.
See also related disinformation examples alleging that the government of Israel support anti-Semitism in Ukraine., European leaders who send arms to Ukraine are war criminals, Zelenskyy is only a marketing operation, a Jewish face for a Nazi regime.
The word or claim of being "Nazi" has, together with the claim of "Russophobia" become keywords in the Kremlin vocabulary as synonym with everything opposing today's Russia - see our accounts: "Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest" and "Putin as the tamer of Neo-Nazims".