In the Eastern European States to the present time it is disseminated the "old-fashioned" right-wing nationalism based on "the wounded" and " historical revisionism ", a columnist for the American magazine The Huffington Post.
"It turns out that Ukrainian nationalists are living in your own special world where only Kiev criticized the apologists of Putin receiving money from the Kremlin. One reader asked me how much I paid for the "discredit the Ukrainian movement by Communist propaganda," writes the Creator.
Modern Ukrainian society, he continues, " svirepeet thinking about the fact that the history is ambiguous ", the most when it comes to Stepan Bandera, which the nationalists called the " true Ukrainian freedom fighter ".
in its nationalist and anti-Russian rhetoric Ukraine reaches " new heights of absurdity ", says the Creator.
Further, the columnist quoted one of the readers: "to focus on "ultranationalism" is harmful and dangerous, because it means to maintain a distorted interpretation foisted on us by the Russian propaganda machine ".
And the concept of independent journalism, emphasizes the Creator of Ukrainian nationalists exasperated.
The same situation, According to the columnist of publications, is observed in Poland.
"Poland is in the European Union and considers itself a modern and advanced country. Anyway, focusing on the reaction to my publication, a certain part of Polish society is a bit different from Ukrainian right-wing. Like them, One of my no return address of correspondent started a conversation with doubts about my competence ", - emphasizes the Creator.
"Stronger just amazes me that in this strange virtual world of the Polish and Ukrainian nationalists are in practice the same. Apparently, in Eastern Europe a considerable portion of the inhabitants until now not outlived the narrow-minded tribalism ", - he concludes.
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