our fundamental rights are under assault in our very history is being denied. we will not stand by quietly. as it happens. the goal is to condition this generation to white supremacy. because they see this generation as pushing against this far-right wing fascist ideology. we want our freedoms and our people to be safe. so seeing that as next essential threat to the republican party, they aim to change the way generation thanks by changing what we teach them. members of the congressional black caucus did not hold back at a press conference on the state of race in america earlier this week. on capitol hill. the group piloted a slew of right-wing attacks on blackness and civil rights, like the ideologically driven supreme court ruling that put an end to affirmative action. the challenges to voting rights and equitable redistricting seen recently and states such as alabama and louisiana. the onslaught of book bans in revisionist curriculum
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Vladimir Putin has blood on his hands and that the Russian President had set out to kill Ukrainian people because they dared to disagree with his fascist ideology.
as we just skusd, there is no doubt that the ukrainian azov has its roots in far right neo nazi but the country s press has taken that kernel of truth to argue something that is not true, that naziism is pervasive in ukraine or in its government. while this is not the only russian falsehood being spread, it certainly is a pervasive one and one that you will see repeated in some u.s. right wing and conspiracy theory cycles. at the onset of the war, putin justified the invasion by saying that ukraine s government was openly neo nazi despite ukraine being under the leadership of a jewish president who lost ancestors in the holocaust. perhaps it is no wonder that reports have emerged that russian soldiers going door to door, literally asking where the nazis are hiding and now it seems putin s government and the russian state controlled press are using this same narrative of supposed ukrainian naziism to
complicated. the azov battalion of today denies being motivated by any neo nazi or fascist ideology. they say they have grown to include fighters of all different ideology, though they admit they still count neo nazis among their ranks. now, russian president vladimir putin has tried to use the azov battalion ties to the far right as justification for his campaign of so-called denazi fication in ukraine and we will talk more about that in a little later on in the show. it s no secret that war makes for strange bed fellows, ironically, the most famous example of this is probably the alliance between western countries and the soviet union in world war ii, between 1939 and 1941, almost two years, the soviet union and germany, nazi germany, were allies, and that worked until hitler decided to invade the soviet union in 1941. but the question of how to think about the azov battalion looms
large today. the washington post, along with three other post reporters, published a new detailed report today, examining the azov battalion s role in the current fight against russia. he interviewed fighters from across the battalion as they shot at pictures of vladimir putin for target practice. some of the shoulders with whom he spoke had neo nazi tattoos and espoused far right ideologies. the leader of the battalion told the washington post that their force now includes writers and other liberals, even members of the extreme left, and anti-fascists, quote, we are at war for the very existence of ukraine at the moment. in the past month, i never asked a person who came to join us about his political views. today, ukrainians have only one option of political orientation, and for or against ukraine, end quote. he told the washington post, that they re trying to weed out the neo nazi tattoos and other symbols among azov fighters but