https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/516792.kriegspropaganda-verständnis-für-faschisten.html

Machine translation (DeepL):

Sympathy for fascists

With the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation [me: foundation of the party “Die Linke” (“The Left”)], an activist wants to break down “prejudices” against Ukrainian Azov fascists.

Evelyn Deller wants to counteract the glaring lack of “left-wing solidarity with Ukraine.” Since 2025, the Ukrainian living in Germany has been touring left-wing gatherings with lectures to correct images of “military resistance” against the Russian invaders and to “sharpen them with a historical outline.” At the “anti-German” pub Bajszel in Berlin, she spoke about the “anti-imperialist character and continuity of Ukrainian anti-fascist self-defense,” among other things. That she is not referring to the Ukrainians who fought against Nazi Germany in the Red Army during World War II or who follow in their tradition is revealed by Deller’s accusation against the Soviet Union as a colonialist state in which “Jewish and Ukrainian people were deliberately murdered – Holodomor.” But who is she talking about then?

Further insight may be provided by another lecture by Deller entitled “Why we on the left must support Ukraine” this coming Friday in Trier, which addresses the following concern: “The German left either speaks about this war without being informed or not at all. We want to counter this and break down prejudices (for example, about what the ominous Azov Battalion is all about),” the announcement states. The text does not reveal the extent to which the armed wing of Ukraine’s most powerful Nazi movement, which expanded into a regiment in 2014 and into a brigade in the National Guard and the army in 2023, and whose founder Andriy Biletsky (nicknamed “White Leader”) is being touted as the successor to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Olexander Sirskij, is a victim of left-wing bias – the text does not reveal anything about this.

Deller is deputy chairwoman of the Jewish Student Association of North Rhine-Westphalia and is committed not only to fighting “anti-Semitic” solidarity with Palestine, such as “anti-Coca-Cola BDS campaigns,” as she reported in an interview with “Mena-Watch” published on December 21, 2025, and against “anti-Semitic” Jewish leftists such as Norman Finkelstein, but also against “anti-Semitic projections onto Ukraine.” Deller, who considers Ukraine a “country affected by genocide,” ends her speeches with the salute of the fascist Banderists, who participated in the Holocaust as Hitler’s collaborators.

Deller presents Radical Aid Force (RAF) as a model for left-wing solidarity with Ukraine. The anarchist group organizes donations for humanitarian aid as well as for the purchase of military equipment, such as combat robots, for “anti-authoritarian fighters” – here and there also fascists, as shown by a photo published by the RAF of a member of the drone unit “Eyes of God” supplied by them, wearing the badge of the Banderist party and militia UNA-UNSO. A second pillar of RAF activities is agitation for “arming Ukraine to the teeth,” including deliveries of ‘Taurus’ cruise missiles, as well as hate propaganda against the Russian “Orcs.” A video on the RAF Instagram channel shows footage of Russian soldiers being torn apart by grenades, set to the beach party hit “Samba de Janeiro.”

Such misguided worldviews fit into the hothouses of “anti-German” [Antideutsche] sectarianism such as “Conne Island” in Leipzig, where one of Deller’s next performances will take place. However, supporters can also be found in the right wing of the Left Party: RAF has already received funds from the solidarity fund of Saxony state parliament representative Juliane Nagel in 2024. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) Rhineland-Palatinate has agreed to cooperate as a partner for Deller’s lecture in Trier, which is being organized by the “Rosa Salon,” which calls for a critical examination of “left-wing dogmas,” and the RLS Thuringia has agreed to cooperate for another event in Erfurt. “Parts of the German left are reproducing Russian propaganda and delegitimizing the self-defense of the Ukrainian population,” reads the RLS website. “The lecture places these distortions in their historical context and analyzes the foundations of Russian imperial ideology in order to raise awareness of disinformation.”