“I know what you are talking about. I also know that it doesnt apply to all.”
Not “all,” but certainly the leadership and a noisy plurality share the extreme nationalist positions.
Most revolutions end badly, and this one seems almost certain follow the normal path.
1. At its zenith in the October 2012 elections Svoboda represented 10 percent of Ukrainiansnot negligible by any means but less than the votes commanded by like parties in the Netherlands, Austria, and (yes) France.2. Far from advancing and, as Putins propagandists in Europe repeat ad nauseam, benefitting from the radicalization of the movement, the opposite has occurred. The emergence of new leaders who have diluted the extreme rights monopoly on radicalism has marginalized Svoboda, as shown by every poll, most recently the SOCIS poll of January 31, which, like the others, puts Svoboda at below five percent of the vote. - Ukraines Revolutionaries Are Not Fascists