Svoboda is a Ukrainian far right political party.


It is often described as Neo-Nazi but they expelled all overt NeoNazis in the early 2000's. Despite this they continue to be racist, authoritarian and ultranationalsitic.

In 2012, before the Euromaidan revolution, they won 10% of the vote and 38 seats in the Rada.

In the 2014 Ukrainian election, despite having played a role in Euromaidan, they scored just under 5% of the vote and won 6 seats in the Rada.

In the 2019 election, they ran a joint ticket with other far right parties. They got 2% of the vote and won a single seat in the Rada. Their presidential candidate got 1.6% of the vote.

It sure sounds like the Ukrainians were doing a fine job of denazifying themselves. Or maybe Servant of the People, Zelenskyy's party are the Nazis.

Well, lets see, they're a member of ALDE, the federation of European centre-left parties. Currently Ireland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Belgium and Luxembourg have Prime Ministers drawn from ALDE members.

Do any of those seem like Nazi states to you? Or maybe Zelenskky himself who besides being Jewish grew up speaking Russian is the Nazi who wants to kill all Russian-speakers.


"Zelenskyy supports the free distribution of medical cannabis, free abortion in Ukraine, and the legalisation of prostitution and gambling.[He opposes the legalisation of firearms."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#Social_issues

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  1. IanMarch 30, 2022 at 1:20 AM

    Ukraine is one of the LEAST antisemitic and LEAST Islamophobic countries in europe.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/minority-groups/

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