In the mostly Russian regions of eastern Ukraine, a violent war ensued between the Kiev government and separatists.By the end of 2021, it had taken over 15,000 lives. Commanders from openly neo-Nazi and fascist groups like the Azov Battalion were integrated to become brigades of the official Ukrainian Armed Forces and given free rein in the Donbass.

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So, by the time that Russian PresidentVladimir Putin ordered his military to invade Ukraine in February 2022, war had already been raging for yearsin eastern Ukraine. Chances for peace---both before and after the invasion—were repeatedly scuttled, often at the insistence of Kiev’s allies in Washington.

The Odessa trade union massacre was one of the earliest of many atrocities committed in the war in Ukraine.The Right Sector militia celebrated the mass murder that happened that day, calling it “yet another bright page in our fatherland’s history.” None of the perpetrators were ever brought to justice, and some of the massacre’s coordinatorseven ended up as members of parliament.

While civilized folks would view that massacre as a dark chapter in history, Ukraine has taken a different path bycelebrating that and their Nazi past. Remarkably, this takes place in a pizzeriawhere one of America’s top officials recently had a cozy dinner with a war criminal…