The Origins of Ukraine’s Fascists & Why It Matters, w/ Historian Tarik Cyril Amar

For those who just discovered Ukraine two months ago, the fact that Ukrainian nationalism has been dangerously intertwined with fascism might sound like Russian propaganda. But is it?How powerful is the Ukrainian far right? Are they really linked to Nazis? Why is the corporate-owned media denying this? To place this war and the Ukrainian far right in its historical context, Rania Khalek was joined by Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany, who is currently associate professor of history at Koc University in Istanbul, working on Russian, Ukrainian, and generally East European history. TIME CODES0:00 Intro2:48 Origins of right-wing Ukrainian nationalism5:03 Ukraine during Soviet times8:32 Ukrainian collaboration with Nazis in WW214:27 Ukraine after the Soviet collapse16:43 Post-Soviet right-wing nationalisms & historical revisionism21:23 Understanding Ukraine’s far right factions27:50 Is the US arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine? 33:44 Azov Battalion infiltration of military 38:21 Media whitewashing Nazis49:48 2014’s contribution to rising far right 58:30 Far right threats against Zelensky1:06:26 Boon to the global far right1:11:07 Broken NATO promises to Russia1:19:55 What alternatives did Putin have?1:25:46 Threat of a more militarized Germany & Europe1:39:51 Where to follow Tarik