Not P.....but Seymour Hersh admitting his self-blocked blindness....

[Martin Dietze]

On 2. Jan 2026, at 21:35, Hübschräuber <huebschraeuber at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is one of the better-known anti-fascist units of the Ukrainian Army:

I had sincerely hoped that you’d come to your senses about this “Ukraine = fascist” thing, in particular after having seen what has been happening since February 2022.

Unfortunately you don’t seem to have to, and as before you are still sticking to anecdotes. These may demonstrate cases of which a good part surely deserves criticism, but it cannot prove what you really want to show.

While you’ll find the far-right in every country, in Russia you have a de facto fascist state. 

As I wrote before, the main properties of fascism according to Emilio Gentile fit Russia like a glove:

- the “führer” principle
- claim to totality
- a military oriented party organization
- a culture-creating, irrational secular substitute religion based on myths, rites and symbols
- corporative, hierarchical economic organisation
- a totalitarian model of society structured into functional hierarchies

In contrast, Ukraine is a democratic country with a parliament in which extremist groups from the right (or the left) have not played any significant role for many years. Your own (and my) country is much worse in this respect.

My feeling is that you still haven’t found the necessary sense of proportions: 
A fascist state has invaded another while showing the typical elements of a fascist war, like systematic use of war crimes and attacks on civilians, but you still not only ignore the attacker’s fascism but instead keep insisting how “fascist” the victim is. 

I find this rather tasteless, apart from it being far from the actual truth.

Cheers,

Martin