I’ll never forget the one and only time I went for a date with a Ukrainian woman living in Netherlands back in 2020. I saw in her house the Tryzub icon and blue and yellow everywhere (not to mention the unkempt house itself) and I felt my heartbeat rising from the overwhelming picture.
So I asked her about the Svoboda party, it’s iconography (I had incidentally confused the Tryzub for the 3-finger Svoboda icon), as well as Bandera and the history of Nazi collaboration and the Maidan coup. Of course I was told “it is all Russian propaganda, there’s no Nazis in Ukraine, the Soviet Russians r*ped us, Holodomor, a gorillian dead, you must love Putin, etc.”
Yes those were direct quotes from her minus the gorillian part, she used a smaller number. As you can imagine, the date fizzled out immediately after that!
Ukrainian fascist political party Svoboda uses it as part of their iconography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)
mini-rant only tangentially related
I’ll never forget the one and only time I went for a date with a Ukrainian woman living in Netherlands back in 2020. I saw in her house the Tryzub icon and blue and yellow everywhere (not to mention the unkempt house itself) and I felt my heartbeat rising from the overwhelming picture.
So I asked her about the Svoboda party, it’s iconography (I had incidentally confused the Tryzub for the 3-finger Svoboda icon), as well as Bandera and the history of Nazi collaboration and the Maidan coup. Of course I was told “it is all Russian propaganda, there’s no Nazis in Ukraine, the Soviet Russians r*ped us, Holodomor, a gorillian dead, you must love Putin, etc.”
Yes those were direct quotes from her minus the gorillian part, she used a smaller number. As you can imagine, the date fizzled out immediately after that!
I swear all anti-communists are either parrots, NPCs, or broken records