Thread by @UmlandAndreas

1. Putin claims to be "denazifying" a country that has a president with a Jewish family background. In 2019, the Russian-speaking Ukrainian Jew Zelenskyy won free elections with a result of 73%.
tass.com/politics/14091…

2. He replaced a non-Jewish incumbent who suffered, from a Jewish challenger, the worst defeat of a presidential candidate in Ukrainian history. Ukraine's united far right gained 2.15% in the 2019 parliamenrary elections.

3. Hundreds of Western "antifascist" journalists and even some scholars have helped Putin since 2014 with their alarmist statements warning about the surprisingly weak Ukrainian far right.

4. Their ill-formulated statements are today lending credibility to the #Kremlin’s main justification for this Russian war of aggression against a largely tolerant nation which lost millions during the #Nazi aggression of 1941-1944.

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