https://nitter.net/StephenKing/status/1550118187840114695

  • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Where's the context? I get these people got duped into praising stephan bandera or something like that but I'd like to see where it happened

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      So they pretended to be Zelensky and they said that Bandera was a Ukrainian national hero who fought in WW2 against the Soviet Union who "accidentally" committed some crimes against the Jews, but that it was important to "keep him opposed to Putin and his propaganda."

      End of the call King basically says that yeah founding fathers of countries often do bad stuff, like all the US founders who owned slaves, but they still did good stuff for the US and that both Zelensky and Bandera were "great men."

      So even if he had zero understanding of who Bandera was to start with, they told him that this was a Nazi aligned WW2 leader who killed Jews and he immediately praised him.

      Video here.

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Nah, the horror author. Huge Ukraine supporter apparently, and willing to knowingly support historical Nazis to keep it that way.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      There were videos circulating of some Russian hooligans calling up various high-profile people by pretending to be Zelensky.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/24/jk-rowling-russian-prank-zelensky/