I just read a "hilarious" thing in Swedish media, biggest paper.

Apparently 75 known Swedish neo-Nazis went to Kiev to fight with a movement called Svoboda. (I noticed that there is a new Swedish user to the forum with that nick. Co-incidence...? He ought to learn the Ukrainian language though, I would have thought, not Russian...)

Anyway, this put this paper in a bit of a twist. Because they are AGAINST neo nazis in Sweden, but FOR the nationalist movement in Ukraine. So how do they write the story without contradicting the official line....?

They didn't write very much, just reported that the neo nazis had gone to Kiev and helped the "peaceful protesters" by serving soup (that's a long way to travel just to serve some soup). The alleged neo nazi who was interviewed anonymously said that the Ukrainian nationalists saw Sweden as a particularly bad example of failed immigration and political correctness. Sadly, there is some point to that. They called it "revolution tourism", apparently the same people once visited Belarus for similar reasons

Either way - it's an entertaining dilemma for the paper - they love to keep tabs of what the Neo Nazis do, to criticize it, and suddenly that meant they had to acknowledge that this hated group has links with "freedom" movement which they favour, in Ukraine. So has the Nazis become good, or does this somewhat taint the heroic Svoboda movement? Propaganda can be challenging at times.

They solved the who problem by illustrating the article with a completely un-related picture of Russian nazis carrying a Russian flag, obviously nothing to do with Ukraine. A reader unfamiliar with the events just skimming over the page would still think "bloody Russians".

I googled and found some international coverage in "The Daily Beast" (no idea what kind of paper that might be, something online...)

Quote Originally Posted by Fredrik Hagberg
“I stand before your forces of revolution to tell you about what your future might be if you fail your glorious endeavour”. However where I come from is no longer Sweden.” Hagberg warned Ukrainians that a successful revolution must chart a path that carefully avoided the evils of abortion and ethnic mongrelization, one that harshly punished welfare abuse and rejected the normalization of homosexuality. “Officials in Sweden like to calls us the most modern country in the world. I say to you, brothers, this is what awaits you if you choose to follow our example. You now have the opportunity to choose and create your own future. Do not accept the trap of choosing either the West or Russia.”
hmmmm, very torn - I actually agree with some of the points he makes, even though I abhor nazism. Very disturbing. Just a footnote, feel free to ignore. Plus I am not sure it's possible to stand alone and refuse to choose allegiance today.