False equivalence: why we should not applaud Nazis who say they defended Ukraine
The Azov Battalion’s flag: it features a Wolfsangel and a Black Sun – two symbols associated with Nazism. Is the contribution of organisations like this to Ukraine’s war effort against Russia the reason support for Nazis is being normalised in countries like Canada?
There was an astonishing scene in the Canadian Parliament last week.
Members of that country’s legislature – a country that fought the Nazis in World War II – gave a standing ovation to a former SS officer, just because he said he defended Ukraine against the Russians in the 1940s.
Canadian parliament just gave a standing ovation to a 98 yr old SS Nazi. Why? Because he was a Nazi who *fought against Russia in Ukraine.
Yaroslav Hunk fought for the 14th division of the Waffen SS.This is how deep the anti-Russia gaslighting has gotpic.twitter.com/3RZwoBDpE1
— Ragged Trousered Philanderer (@RaggedTP) September 24, 2023
What a dangerous precedent to set.
Nazis like Yaroslav Hunk invaded Ukraine and committed atrocities against its people. Nobody should applaud that in the way the Canadian Parliament has.
And while it is true that the Russians turned out to be just another set of invaders, making Ukraine part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for almost half a century afterwards, it is false to claim – as the applause of the Canadian Parliament does – that what Russians are doing now is the same as what they did then:
https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1706222276444622875
What we’re seeing here is a horrifying attempt to pull the wool over our eyes with a ‘false equivalence’ argument.
Is it because we know that Nazis have been fighting on the side of Ukraine, and that Ukrainian authorities have apparently supported Nazis (think of the Azov Battalion)?
Is this an attempt to rehabilitate Nazis in the eyes of the public – to make us accept the abominable just because it helps us achieve a political goal against a current enemy that hasn’t been our ally since the 1940s?
That would make us, now, just as bad as the Nazis were then.
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