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The wholesale renaming of Ukrainian towns, streets, parks, and squares, has been lauded by the country’s far-right who seek to replace historical truth with far-right nationalist propaganda.

Alexander Tushkin speaks to Sergiy Movchan, a left-wing activist and participant in the Marker Project tracking far-right violence in Ukraine, about Ukrainian nationalism, the far right and antifascists in the Ukrainian army, and how the war has affected their position in society.

Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian, an editor of Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and an activist in Social Movement. He is currently serving in the Ukrainian army. He was interviewed by Stephen R. Shalom

The newly created “stormtrooper” brigades will include the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and be tasked with “liberating” all of Ukraine from Russian forces.

“The full-scale Russian invasion partially smoothed over the former conflicts between the various leftists in Ukraine, because on the most important issue, the absolute majority of the Ukrainian left took the same position — support and participation in the resistance.”

A Ukrainian leftist analyzes rightwing forces in the country

The special operations forces of the "Azov" regiment have become the Third Separate Assault Brigade as part of the ...

Facebook (now known as Meta) has removed Ukraine's Azov Regiment — members of which regularly display Nazi symbols and signs on their uniforms — from its list of dangerous individuals and organizations. With this change, Mark Zuckerberg is welcoming members of the Azov Regiment who were once blacklisted to utilize his massive platform.

Nearly a year after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Facebook parent company Meta is tweaking its content moderation strategy over the bloody conflict.

Meta has removed the Azov Regiment, a controversial unit within the Ukrainian National Guard with far-right political leanings, from its list of dangerous individuals and organizations.