>>10573It looks like russian fascists (as usual) try to blame others in their own crimes (via their paid agents). So what are the main nitpicking points?
"1. There’s a song called “Sunwheel”… an obvious neo-nazi white supremacist symbol.
2. They have songs titled “1648” and “Glare of 1768”. The only things of note in those years were two large-scale anti-Semitic pogroms which killed thousands.
3. There is a song called “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” – a group of Nationalists who fought independently alongside nazis and AGAINST Soviets during WWII. That’s pretty conclusive in itself."
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1. I'd say it's a very speculative claim. I'd rather make an association with
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Halo_(optical_phenomenon) .
2. There were quite a bunch of events during 1648 in Ukraine:
"Khmelnytskyi:
- From April 29 to May 16,
the Battle of Yellow Water took place, in which the Cossacks of Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the Polish army of Stefan Pototsky.
- On May 26, the Cossack army led by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi won a victory over the Polish troops in
the battle of Korsun.
- On July 12, the Cossack army under the leadership of Maksym Krivonos stormed the Polonsk fortress, the key to Volyn.
- On September 23, in
the Battle of Pyliavtsi, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's army defeated the Polish army led by Mykolaj Ostrorog, Dominik Zaslavskyi, and Alexander Konetspolskyi.
- On October 6, the Ukrainian-Tatar army under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky besieged Lviv.
- On December 17 (27),
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi at the head of the rebel army triumphantly
entered Kyiv."
https://www.wikiwand.com/uk/1648In 1768:
" - On February 29, the Bar Confederation was proclaimed in the church of the city of Bar.
- On June 21, the Haydamaks, members of the Koliiv Oblast, stormed the city of Uman, which was defended by the Bar's confederates.
- On July 14, the
Haydamaks attacked Balta, which then belonged to the Ottoman Empire. This incident provoked a
war between Russia and Turkey."
https://www.wikiwand.com/uk/17683. Conclusive by what criteria?
"The conference emphasized that "all combat capable population must support, under OUN banners, the struggle
against the Bolshevik enemy"."
"Germans were a secondary threat compared to their main enemies (the communist forces of the Soviet Union and Poland)"
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army