Thread: A Note on EU and Nationalistic parties, in light of events in Ukraine

Originally Posted by Hanna;262850
It wouldn't affect anyone else if it was local in Western Ukraine, [B

and there probabably aren't a lot of non-Europeans, Jews, Gypsies or whatever living there, so nobody really to be a victim[/B]. People should not be told what to think. Nazis were not all evil all of the time. If somebody wants to quitely admire that without disturbing anyone else, then let them.

You really think that there aren't Jews living in Odessa, Uman, Kiev, and Dnipropetrovsk? Wow!

Here, read the open letter from Jewish leaders to Putin. They reject the idea that nazis are running around everywhere.
https://secure.avaaz.org/ru/petition...skola_Uk/?pv=8

official translation into English:
Open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin | Voices of Ukraine

Originally Posted by bytemare

You really think that there aren't Jews living in Odessa, Uman, Kiev, and Dnipropetrovsk? Wow!

No, I don't, and I didn't say that. I was talking about Western Ukraine. Lvov and surrounding areas. The places you mention are not located there. And I am well aware that there are Jews scattered around most of Ukraine. I even saw Hasidim myself, in Odessa (to my surprise), and I am aware that Ukraine had millions of Jews at one time.

I understand Western Ukraine, is the most ethnically homogenous part of the country though. More rural and agricultural. Of course, correct me if I am wrong. But possibly the part of Ukraine where you'd be least likely to find lots of minorities, or? I guess that if somebody's going to play the "aryan"/white/ultra-nationalist game, that's the least contentious part of Ukraine to do it.

Not to say that I think ultra nationalism or nazism belongs anywhere in modern Europe. But it seems like a particularly bad idea in Southern Ukraine, i.e. Odessa, Crimea, and perhaps Eastern Ukraine - I understand it's quite a melting pot there.