"All countries have their extreme elements. "
Yes, but only ONE country names a national holiday for a Nazi mass murderer.
From Newsweek:
"Ukraine Makes Birthday of Nazi Collaborator a National Holiday and Bans Book Critical of Anti-Semitic Leader"
https://www.qwant.com/?q=Ukraine+names+holiday+for+Stepan+Bandera+Newsweek&t=web
"The Ukrainian city of Lviv, which was the nationalist's home city, also announced this month that next year would be "Stepan Bandera Year," a move criticized by Israel."
Secondly:
Those early stories WERE accurate. They are still up and accessible, and as far as I know, none have been retracted or deleted or even redacted. Please provide proof that they "have been demonstrated to have been overstated" - links or citations please.
Those stories represent what was the universal opinion of Ukraine prior to the war. It was only after the SMO was launched that the propaganda machine forced everyone to toe the official party line - all Russian news outlets were banned, and all non-Russian news outlets were put under strict control of the USA and Ukraine.
Here is another example of how this all worked:
In 2018, the the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to bar U.S. assistance going to the Azov battalion because of its Nazi ties.
“I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, along with my measures to keep the dangerous and easily trafficked MANPADs out of these unstable regions,” said Rep. John Conyers, who introduced the amendments.
The amendments were added because Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who oversees Ukraine’s armed militias, announced that Azov troops would be among the first units to be trained by the 300 U.S. military advisers who have been dispatched to Ukraine in a training mission codenamed “Fearless Guardian.”
Conyers was not having it.
https://orinocotribune.com/us-congress-admits-nazi-role-in-ukraine/
