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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.”