Q&A about Parubiy and Hitler

Dude, seriously, be your age. You can’t cut off everything Parubiy said before and after these words and pretend he was a Hitler supporter.

What he actually said in a discussion of the proposed Ukrainian law on referendums was that it can be dangerous because people like Hitler (whom Parubiy never called the greatest; this is all utterly invented) have used direct democracy for nefarious purposes. Here is the actual quote that I GTed for you:

But we still have discussions about the law on the Ukrainian referendum. I am a big supporter of direct democracy. I even studied it at a scholarly level at one time. By the way, I will tell you that the person who practiced direct democracy the most was Adolf Aloizovych in the 1930s. And we should remember this, too, because in the 1930s it was one of the key methods of manipulating people, among other things. Therefore, this law should be well-thought-out.

Are you the same person who asked about Bandera? Because this is yet another instance of clumsy Russian propaganda I’m seeing on the blog in a few days. Nobody can be a successful politician in Ukraine and openly admire Hitler. Do I need to explain why, or is it obvious? Your bullshit radar should be on overdrive when you hear this kind of very obvious fabrication. Every single voter in Ukraine today lost relatives in the war against Hitler. Every single one. It’s easier to appeal to African American voters by defending slavery than to Ukrainians by praising Hitler. Because Hitler was more recent. We literally all have people in the cemetery who fought Hitler. And you honestly think that a politician would come to these voters, with their cemeteries, the country that lost the most in WW2, and go, “hey, guys, I hear that dude Hitler was pretty rad. Who’s with me?” Read a book, educate yourself, it’s sad to be this excluded from all knowledge.

Whatever source you are using, it’s lying to you. You can see yourself how it added words to the quote that were never said and removed other parts of the quote. Don’t be a Candace Owens. Be vigilant about your sources.

Of course, there will be that one reader whose only takeaway from this post will be that I said that African Americans loved slavery, so I’ll clarify that no, they didn’t. They hated it. Which is kind of my point but whatever.