To celebrate August 24 Vladimir Zelensky took to Instagram to upload a series of portraits of commanders born in post-Soviet Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly one serviceman’s image, alongside his full name and credentials, was pictured wearing a Nazi insignia of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division.

That unit of the SS recruited primarily Ukrainian collaborators, and has been accused of committing several massacres in Poland.

  • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
    71·
    2 years ago

    Ehm, I didn’t?.. I said I spoke with a few Chinese folks — they were defending their government’s actions (repressive politics against disbelievers with all kinds of cyber-fascism, camps for Uyghurs, the whole Tibet, Taiwan, etc.) no matter what. When I started asking questions with if and that, they showed they don’t understand the topic whatsoever.

    That’s extremely vague. Please be more specific? I would like to know, specifically what you think they were ““brainwashed”” about. All you’ve done here is list a bunch of extremely vague topics. What about those topics?

    • uno_yakshi@lemmy.ml
      24·
      2 years ago

      I’ve listed the topics in the brackets. The only answer I’ve got from those people could be summarized to “my government surely does know what is it doing, I don’t know politics that much”. Yeah, I consider it brainwashed when people are blindly believe whatever is told. In the past, it was called religious faith. Which has nothing to do with critical thinking.

      • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
        61·
        2 years ago

        You have listed extremely vague topics, what specific things within those topics? Why do I need to repeat myself? I already asked you to be more specific. You are deliberately avoiding going into any more detail because you want people to fill in their own blanks and don’t want to say anything that might be questioned with actual evidence.

    • uno_yakshi@lemmy.ml
      25·
      2 years ago

      I just presume you aren’t going to defend China’s exploitation of other countries for the sake of resources (just like the US) or repressive manners of its state capitalism? Or will you?

      • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
        51·
        2 years ago

        Of course I am. Because that’s not what China does and you are consuming pure propaganda if that is what you believe. America’s empire is built upon exploitation through debt, China’s is not. Yes China uses loans, but if you have been led to believe that these loans are in any way remotely comparable to America’s then you have not actually looked into them in any way whatsoever.