Devorlon@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Russian influence operations expand to BlueSkyEnglish
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2 days agoMastadon - @Devorlon@social.linux.pizza
Unfortunately every countries military has nationalistic fascists, some of which use Nazi iconography to display their “pride”. I could find the 1940 Swedish general election (not at war), 1942 Icelandic parliamentary election (occupied by USA), 1943 & 1944 Irish general elections (not at war) as the elections held between Sep 1939 & Sep 1945, the other democratic European country’s I reviewed, elections were either postponed or went uncontested.
All while being invaded by a fascist far-right authoritarian dictatorship (by your logic), because yes, Russia has fascists.
So while your point is that Ukraine is a far-right authoritarian country because it:
The point I’m attempting to make to you, is that all countries have fascists in them. Yes even Russia:
https://cepa.org/article/comrade-hitler-and-other-russian-fantasies/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group