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Zelensky’s fascism fetish is booming, and the West is still (mostly) okay with it

🇺🇦 public Ukraine · · 1051 words · By Tarik Cyril Amar
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Zelensky’s fascism fetish is booming, and the West is still (mostly) okay with it It’s hard to believe one’s eyes while witnessing the latest performance put on by the comedian tyrant of Ukraine.

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What happened

Zelensky’s fascism fetish is booming, and the West is still (mostly) okay with it It’s hard to believe one’s eyes while witnessing the latest performance put on by the comedian tyrant of Ukraine.

Why it matters

Within the space of a week or so, the regime of president-for-eternity-no-elections-needed Vladimir Zelensky has repatriated and reburied with pomp and ceremony the remains of Andrey Melnik, a twentieth-century Ukrainian fascist leader and Nazi collaborator,…

Common ground

The UPA was, in effect, the military arm of the OUN, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.rt.com/news/640771-zelensky-fascism-fetish-west/

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the regime of president-for-eternity-no-elections-needed Vladimir Zelensky has repatriated and reburied with pomp and ceremony the remains of Andrey Melnik”
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Multiple independent web search results from different sources confirm that the remains of Andriy Melnyk were repatriated and reburied with ceremony under the Zelensky administration in May/June 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian census identified that there were more than 5,864,000 Ukrainians and Ukrainian citizens living in Russia in 2015, representing over 4.01% of the total population of the Russian Federation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Teletriumph Awards or Teletriumphs (Ukrainian: Телетріумф) are the only national television awards of Ukraine, awarded by the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teletriumph_Award_winn…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 25, 2026 · The repatriated remains of 20th-century Ukrainian military leader Andrii Melnyk and his wife Sofiia Fedak-Melnyk were reburied at the National ...
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/25/ukraine-reburi…
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Claim 2: “Polish president Nawrocki would like to deprive Zelensky of the high state honors that Warsaw has foolishly bestowed on him and has threatened to curtail Poland’s support for Kiev’s EU ambitions.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about the Polish language and country, and an app description. There is no evidence regarding a 'President Nawrocki' or threats to curtail EU support.
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web search NEUTRAL — The inhabitants of different regions of Poland still speak Polish somewhat differently, although the differences between modern-day vernacular varieties and standard Polish (język ogólnopolski) appear…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language
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web search NEUTRAL — Poland has a high standard of living, safety, and economic freedom, as well as free university education and universal health care. It has 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, over 100 Historic Monuments a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago · Whether you want to fix blurry pictures, remove unwanted objects, create AI portraits, retouch selfies, or enhance everyday photos, Polish gives you everything you need in one photo edito…
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=photo.editor.p…
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Claim 3: “named a contemporary military elite unit “Heroes of the UPA” (the Ukrainian Insurgent Army of World War Two)”
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Two separate web search results confirm that Zelensky named a military unit 'Heroes of the UPA'.
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web search NEUTRAL — After World War II, the UPA fought Soviet and Polish government forces. In 1947, in Operation Vistula, the Polish government deported 140,000 Ukrainians as part ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nati…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... But who are those "heroes"? Well... Armia Krajowa, or AK: killed an estimated 9,000 to 13,000 Ukrainian civilians and partisans. These killings ...
https://www.facebook.com/tvpworldcom/posts/poland-sees-zelen…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... ... Ukraine named after the UPA or figures associated with it. So naming one ... Zelensky gave the military unit the name "Heroes of the UPA".
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUkraine/comments/1ttzgzn/why_did…
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Claim 4: “The OUN and the UPA also participated in murderous German violence against Jews, serving as pro-active mass murder auxiliaries.”
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Wikipedia specifically documents that Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) perpetrated massacres of Jews, such as the Lviv pogroms, often as auxiliaries to German forces.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive pogroms and massacres of Jews in June and July 1941 in the city of Lwów in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine (now Lviv, Ukraine). The massacres were …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzeź wołyńsko-galicyjska, lit. 'Volhynian-Galician slaughter'; Ukrainian: Волинсько-Галицька трагедія, romanized: Volynsʹko-Halytsʹka tr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrainska Povstanska Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Organ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army
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Claim 5: “they conducted a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign of their own against Poles.”
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Wikipedia and scholarly sources (JSTOR) confirm that the OUN-B and UPA conducted an ethnic cleansing campaign against Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
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web search NEUTRAL — Even before the anti-German uprising began, OUN-B units started attacking Polish villages and murdering Poles.The UPA continued the ethnic cleansing, particularly in rural areas, until most Poles had …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ukrainian nationalist-led ethnic cleansing campaign against Poles in Volhynia during 1943–44 has long been the subject of international tension and contentious public and scholarly debate. This ar…
https://www.academia.edu/29475579/Peasants_into_Perpetrators…
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web search NEUTRAL — 6.1 Ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Galicia.The UPA, fighting a two-front war against both the Germans and approaching Soviets (as well as Soviet partisans), did not focus all of its efforts…
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent…
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Claim 6: “In Israel, both its official Holocaust remembrance and exploitation agency Yad Vashem and the foreign ministry have taken exception.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim regarding Yad Vashem or the Israeli Foreign Ministry's reaction.
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Claim 7: “During the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, both OUN wings tried to collaborate with the Nazis.”
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Wikipedia entries on Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany and the OUN confirm that nationalist factions attempted to collaborate with the Nazis during the war.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN; Ukrainian: Організація українських націоналістів, romanized: Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) was a Ukrainian nationalist organization establi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nati…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, IPA: [steˈpɑn ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪtʃ bɐnˈdɛrɐ]; Polish: Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. By September 1941, the German-occupied te…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_N…
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Claim 8: “The OUN had two political wings that mattered, one under Andrey Melnik, the other under Stepan Bandera.”
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Wikipedia and CIA records confirm the OUN split into two primary factions: OUN-M (Melnyk) and OUN-B (Bandera).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories located in present-day Ukraine, including ethnic Ukrainians and those of other ethnicities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Ukraine
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web search NEUTRAL — The older, more moderate members supported Andriy Melnyk's OUN-M, while the younger and more radical members supported Stepan Bandera's OUN-B. On 30 June 1941 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nati…
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web search NEUTRAL — In 1940, the OUN split into two factions with Bandera leading the more radical faction, the OUN-B, in opposition to the OUN-M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
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Claim 9: “The UPA was, in effect, the military arm of the OUN, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.”
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Wikipedia and other authoritative sources explicitly state that the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Прапор УПА, romanized: Prapor UPA), also known as the red-and-black flag (Ukrainian: Червоно-чорний прапор, romanized: Chervono-chornyi prapor) or …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Insurgen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Революційна Повстанська Армія України, РПАУ, romanized: Revoliutsiina Povstanska Armiia Ukrainy, RPAU; abbr. RIAU), also known as Makhnovtsi (U…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurgent_Army_o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrainska Povstanska Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Organ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army
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