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

[Hübschräuber]

Martin Dietze <pynchon at the-little-red-haired-girl.org> schrieb am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2026 um 11:49:

> 1. Andriy Biletskyi (head of the 3rd Army Corps)
> 
> He has the reputation of being an able commander. Looks like for Ukraine in its current siutation this counts more than his political convictions.

Fine. So we now have an army corps in Ukraine led by a Nazi. 

> 2. Oleksandr Alfiorov (head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory)
> 
> Alfiorov is a nationalist, but not a nazi. To prove otherwise you may want to come up with citations of what he said or wrote which are clearly nazi. Him having worked with Biletskyi in the past does not count.

"The new head of Ukraine’s National Memory Institute, Oleksandr Alfiorov, says Putin can’t be compared with Hitler because Hitler - he believes - was highly educated and influenced by German philosophy and art (fact check: Hitler didn’t have a university degree). 

He also adds that Russians can’t be compared to Germans (of the Holocaust period), because Germans are highly cultured and Russians are worse than Orcs and more like goblins.

Alfiorov is an alumni of the original Azov and of the 3rd detached assault brigade which is controlled by Azov movement’s political leadership. The first neo-nazi in charge of a government institution in Europe, perhaps."

https://x.com/leonidragozin/status/1939685742646641014
 
> 4. Celebration of Bandera’s birthday
> 
> You claim Ukraine were celebrating Bandera’s birthday with the "Blut und Boden" flag of the UPA.
> 
> First of all: funny tweet in which Craig Murray about some guy “Banderas”. This, unfortunately, characterises his knowledge about Ukraine. While being a historian he has a reputation for his views on Ukraine being selective, uneven, and not based on professional expertise.
> 
> Now in up to 9 Ukrainian cities there were parades celebrating his birthday. For you this seems to be the same as "the country", and seeing the black-red flag seems to be proof enough that all the people there were nazis.
> This is where arguments will fail, because here belief kicks in.

No, not all the demonstrators. See below.
 
> Let me however state that (a) people have a right to parade as long as they don’t violate the law, and (b) Bandera is seen by these people as a symbol of anti Soviet resistance while widely ignoring (or even not believing) historic facts about his actual political beliefs.
> Hence, it is impossible to establish the political convictions and motives of all those marchers.
> 
> However, this isn’t even relevant, because marches in 9 cities, many of which with only a few hundred people, don’t represent a country.

In contemporary Ukraine, Banderism indeed appears to be a spectrum ranging from the merely nationalist to outright National Socialism. The UPA flag, however, is decidedly fascist. Whoever carries one can be rightfully called a Nazi in the sense that we use the term in Germany.
 
I agree with what you say about Höcke and the "völkisch" component of the AfD. 
 
Thanks for discussing this controversial matter in a respectful manner.