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An intrinsic (and disturbing) characteristic of almost all the reports and analyses condemning the far right's participation in the Ukrainian revolution is that they do not discuss Ukraine as a country willing to become a full member of the liberal democratic community. Ukraine as such is absent from these debates, yet these commentators would be discussing topics such as "Western expansionism", "US involvement", "enlargement of Nato", "EU-Russia relations", "Russian sphere of influence", "Russian legitimate interests". In this context, the Ukrainians are deprived of agency; they are objectified into non- subjectivity, into a mob allegedly manipulated by the West against Russia.
However, these publicists and journalists still need to focus on the far right to secure a rhetorical retreat in case someone would indeed be willing to discuss the Ukrainians' agency. The line of argumentation - adopted especially by some left-wing circles in the West - was as patronising as it was revealing intellectual laziness: it is the West that is trying to divorce Ukraine from Russia, but even if it is the Ukrainians themselves, then they are all fascists anyway and cannot be supported. For the far left, these two arguments blended together: the West conspires against Russia and deliberately supports the Ukrainian far right because the West itself is a non-democratic imperialistic monster. Google "fascist Nato"; the search results are amusing.
full: https://www.academia.edu/8613130/Assessing_the_Role_and_Consequences_of_the_Far_Rights_Involvement_in_the_Ukrainian_Revolution
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