Since then, the far rightвЂ™s share in parliamentary elections fell to 6% in 2014 and then to 2% in 2019. Radical right parties typically enjoyed just a few wins in single-mandate districts, and no far right candidate for president has ever secured more than 5 percent of the popular vote in an election.вЂќ The far right did, however, for the first time win a proportional share of the parliamentary government in 2012 when it won 10.4% of the popular vote. In the 30 years since UkraineвЂ™s declaration of independence, Mierzejewski-Voznyak wrote, вЂњits radical rightвЂ™s national electoral support only rarely exceeded 3 percent of the popular vote. вЂњDuring much of UkraineвЂ™s post-Soviet history, the radical right has remained on the political periphery, wielding little influence over national politics,вЂќ Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak wrote for вЂњ The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right,вЂќ which was published in 2018. Since Ukraine regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, far-right, ultra-nationalist political groups have struggled to make much headway in Ukrainian politics. But I would consider the KKK in the US and skinheads and neo-Nazi groups in Russia a much bigger problem and threat than the Ukrainian far right.вЂќ вЂPolitical PeripheryвЂ™ That is not to say that Ukraine doesnвЂ™t have a far-right problem.

вЂњThey are vocal and can be prone to violence but they are numerically small, marginal and their political influence at the state level is non-existent.

вЂњNeo-Nazi, far right and xenophobic groups do exist in Ukraine, like in pretty much any other country, including Russia,вЂќ Finkel said. One of the authors of the statement, Eugene Finkel, an associate professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, told us the influence of UkraineвЂ™s neo-Nazi faction is relatively small. Yet none of this justifies the Russian aggression and the gross mischaracterization of Ukraine.вЂќ Ukraine also ought to better confront the darker chapters of its painful and complicated history. Like any other country, it has right-wing extremists and violent xenophobic groups. вЂњWe do not idealize the Ukrainian state and society. вЂњThis rhetoric is factually wrong, morally repugnant and deeply offensive to the memory of millions of victims of Nazism and those who courageously fought against it, including Russian and Ukrainian soldiers of the Red Army. вЂњWe strongly reject the Russian governmentвЂ™s cynical abuse of the term genocide, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, and the equation of the Ukrainian state with the Nazi regime to justify its unprovoked aggression,вЂќ the statement says. WeвЂ™ll explain what these claims are all about and why experts say they are misleading.ДЄ statement signed by more than 300 historians who study genocide, Nazism and World War II said PutinвЂ™s rhetoric about de-Nazifying fascists among UkraineвЂ™s elected leadership is вЂњpropaganda.вЂќ вЂњItвЂ™s shocking to me that Congress is so willing to funnel $14 billion in military equipment over and over again into Ukraine and you have to ask, is this money and is this United States military equipment falling into the hands of Nazis in Ukraine?вЂќ Rep. And itвЂ™s also obscene.вЂќД«iden noted that Zelensky was democratically elected - getting 73% of the vote in 2019 - and he is Jewish.ДЄlthough historians say PutinвЂ™s assertions about the need to liberate Ukraine from the grip of neo-Nazis and genocide against ethnic Russians in Ukraine are false propaganda, the repeated assertions from Putin and other Russian officials had at least one American politician questioning aid to Ukraine. вЂњPutin has the gall to say heвЂ™s вЂde-NazifyingвЂ™ Ukraine. Putin has also talked about вЂњneo-Nazis, who settled in Kyiv and took the entire Ukrainian people hostage.вЂќ Two days earlier, in a speech from Poland, President Joe Biden dismissed Russian President Vladimir PutinвЂ™s claim that Russia invaded because it seeks вЂњde-NazificationвЂќ of Ukraine. вЂњFor me, these are absolutely incomprehensible things.вЂќ вЂњWe wonвЂ™t sit down at the table at all if all we talk about is some вЂde-militarizationвЂ™ or some вЂde-Nazification,'вЂќ Zelensky said in an interview with independent Russian journalists on March 27. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says RussiaвЂ™s talk of вЂњde-NazifyingвЂќ Ukraine is a non-starter in peace negotiations.

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