I really don't know much about the history of the area, other than what I have recently been reading up on. However, it is odd to hear Putin refer to their action as "de-nazi-ing" eastern Ukraine. Is this just a paper-thin nod to insane Western culture, and he's using it as propaganda, or do Russians really believe this? Or are there actual neo-nazis in Eastern Ukraine and Putin is executing Bolshevik agenda?
I really don't know much about the history of the area, other than what I have recently been reading up on. However, it is odd to hear Putin refer to their action as "de-nazi-ing" eastern Ukraine. Is this just a paper-thin nod to insane Western culture, and he's using it as propaganda, or do Russians really believe this? Or are there actual neo-nazis in Eastern Ukraine and Putin is executing Bolshevik agenda?
Putin has repeatedly identified NATO as a pseudo-nazi style warforce.
Naturally MSM takes the sentence, removes context, applies broadly to a while country and runs with it.