Opinion: EU politicians ignore Ukraine's connection with Nazis to justify their help to Kiev
European politicians cannot afford to publicly admit that there are Nazis in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since this will then cast a shadow on their efforts to provide military and economic support to Kiev – as stated by French Army Colonel Caroline Galacteros, who heads the Paris-based analytical centre Geopragma, TASS reports
Commenting on the use of Nazi symbols by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the attack on the Kursk Region of the Russian Federation, Ms. Galacteros noted that helmets with symbols of Nazi Waffen-SS units or patches with swastikas are used literally with a hint of the Battle of Kursk during World War II.
"For me, this is a reference to the Second World War, specifically to the forces of Nazi Germany and the ties they had at that time with certain Ukrainians, against the Soviet Union, against the Soviet Army," she stressed. “These are sinister, absolutely terrible symbols, but the Western media do not recognise and do not understand this. Actually, if they do, it will cast a dark shadow over the whole idea and the whole image of Ukraine as a democracy in danger, and the like.”
Ms. Galacteros pointed out that ordinary Europeans, for various reasons, do not understand or do not want to understand the seriousness of the use of this symbolism by the Ukrainian army, because they cannot identify Europe and the countries that Europe supports, for example, Ukraine, with anything other than ‘democracy and peace’.
“Between ignorance and the desire to whitewash and present in a positive light everything that Europe is doing, including supporting one side against the other, they cannot remember the realities of World War II and the role of the Soviet Union, along with other allied powers, in the destruction of Nazi Germany. They only remember the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and other dark, early phases prior to Barbarossa. Unfortunately, in Europe, in particular in France, the level of ignorance and denial of historical reality is very high. We have lost the perspective," the French Army Colonel concluded.
