West turns a blind eye to march honoring WW2 Nazi ‘SS’ in Kiev: Ukraine may not be a fascist state, but it has a fascism problem — Paul Robinson

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Wednesday’s march in memory of the 14th SS Division ‘Galicia’ in downtown Kiev demonstrated not so much that Ukraine is a fascist state as that its leaders are guilty of turning a blind eye to the far right and of exploiting it.The problem is that the Right Sector (Pravi Sektor), a Ukrainian ultra-right (neo-Nazi) political party and armed militia, is a dominant force in Ukrainian politics, operating on the threat of violence and use of violence. This is not widely acknowledged in the West. It is largely the Right Sektor and its supporters and fellow-travelers that are standing in the way of implementation of the Minsk 2 agreement over Eastern Ukraine (Donbas).Making matters worse, Western powers have proven unwilling to confront Ukraine on this issue, while the Western media has, with

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