What influence did Nazis have in Ukraine before the Russian invasion?
"In the 30 years since Ukraine's declaration of independence, Mierzejewski-Voznyak wrote, "its radical right's national electoral support only rarely exceeded 3 percent of the popular vote.
Radical right parties typically enjoyed just a few wins in single-mandate districts, and no far right candidate for president has ever secured more than 5 percent of the popular vote in an election."
The far right did, however, for the first time win a proportional share of the parliamentary government in 2012 when it won 10.4% of the popular vote. Since then, the far right's share in parliamentary elections fell to 6% in 2014 and then to 2% in 2019.
"The claim that neo-Nazi or far-right groups hold any significant power in Ukraine is absurd," Jared McBride, an adjunct history professor at UCLA whose work specializes in nationalist movements and mass violence and genocide in Russia and Ukraine, told us via email.
"The most well-known far-right wing party, Svoboda (similar to say [Marine] Le Pen's party or other corollaries in Europe) won 2.15 percent of the vote in 2019 election and holds one seat in the Rada " meaning they are politically irrelevant." (Le Pen is the leader of the French far-right party the National Rally.)"
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Putin invaded Ukraine because he wanted Ukraine, not because he was saving Ukraine from Nazis.... and you look foolish each time you make that claim.
