MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance tweeted out recently that the notorious Ukrainian paramilitary force known as the Azov Battalion had been “cleansed” of its Nazi elements in 2014, shortly after helping to lead the Maidan Rebellion.
Nance offered no supporting evidence for the claim, but his tweet fits into the larger pattern of whitewashing of neo-Nazi involvement in the Ukrainian military that’s been ongoing since the Russian invasion, even though prior to this conflict the so-called “Nazi problem” in Ukraine was widely discussed and acknowledged.
