Boy, you must be super pissed at Russia and critical of a lot of their people then. If support for arguably-neo-Nazi figures is the metric. I mean, lots of them speak highly of Stalin, they have statues of him for fuck's sake, and he made a deal with actual Hitler and fought alongside him to invade Poland. He wasn't just a cosplayer.

According to Vyacheslav Likhachev of the Institut français des relations internationales, members of far-right (including neo-Nazi) groups played an important role on the pro-Russian side, arguably more so than on the Ukrainian side, especially during early 2014.[240][241] Members and former members of the National Bolshevik Party, Russian National Unity (RNU), Eurasian Youth Union, and Cossack groups participated in recruitment of the separatists.[240][242][243][244] A former RNU member, Pavel Gubarev, was founder of the Donbas People's Militia and first "governor" of the Donetsk People's Republic.[240][245] RNU is particularly linked to the Russian Orthodox Army,[240] one of a number of separatist units described as "pro-Tsarist" and "extremist" Orthodox nationalists.[246][240] 'Rusich' is part of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary group in Ukraine which has been linked to far-right extremism.[247][248] Afterward, the pro-Russian far-right groups became less important in Donbas and the need for Russian radical nationalists started to disappear.[240]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism#Ukraine

Or is that side of it not a big deal?

Only the side where it makes Ukrainians look bad in some way? For some reason?

BTW, I just gave $50 more to Ukraine via https://u24.gov.ua/ on the big "Donate Now" link in the top right. Hopefully they can buy some weapons with it, and keep playing Bandera songs if that's what they want to do while they are blowing up Soviet-era equipment that's trying to kill their people.

so first things first. pogroms and volyn were terrible and seems like Ukraine is working through that.

the point i'm making here is that the binary "worked with nazis" leads nowhere, and we have to bring things into the historical perspective.

today we have the luxury of retrospective and know what fascism is and its dangers. which, ironically, doesn't seem to stop us from sliding into it.

things were very different and slightly less binary in 1941. after all, the German American Bund (aka First US Nazi party) was dismantled only in December 1941. to make matters worse, germany, france and poland were all researching on the "re-settling" of jews to madagascar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

what makes a difference for me is that while the main nazis (germans, italians, japanese and soviets) were all about "we are better, let's enslave the neighbor monkeys", ukrainian nationalists in that time were about fighting against occupation. polish, soviet, nazi and then again soviet. in that order.

they lost, and as usual with history, it's written by the winners but the fact that (the modern nazi) ruzzia appears to have inherited fear of bandera from the (fairly nazi) soviet union, tells me that it's worth looking at him not only from the ruzzian perspective.