In marginally more positive Eurovision news, Israel got booed at rehearsal.
Aside from Bandera, Balenciaga is a cooked reference in and of itself and I’m not talking about the wayfair-tier child pornography/Devilry “scandal” the fashion company had a year or two ago. Cristóbal Balenciaga tailored clothes for the Spanish royal family and, after the civil war, the Franco family. His studio in Paris was one of the few allowed to continue operations during Nazi occupation.
“If Ukraine promotes Bandera in its historical policy, it will alienate Europe, which has an unequivocal opinion about Nazi collaborators”
Does it really
europeans only disliked nazis because they killed europeans
if nazis didn’t destroy europe in a war they’d be celebrated as heroes (look at how much europeans worship america)
Europeans loved the Nazis, they only “dislike” them now that their new fascist daddy USA has taken over.
Nazi collaboration was the norm across all of Western Europe. Of course, if all you had to go by were the word of Europeans you’d find that the number of resistance members seemed to be triple the population of Europe.
Honestly i think the only has a negative view of bandera because he killed polish people, if the OUN only killed jews and russians they wouldnt care much
Ukrainian nationalist dont use a symbol from a known nazi collaborator challenge. Level: impossible
JERRY HEIL
Jerry Heil
It’s worse than you might think. Jerry was what Allied soldiers called German soldiers and Nazi Germany in general during World War II.
Idk if you’re being /s as Civility, but Jerry is a lesser offense, compared to Heil…
Tis bad optics, Civility…
For sure. If her stage name was Jane or Joey Heil that would still set the dogs barking while say, Jerry Henderson wouldn’t.
But taken together I do think her whole stage name being “Heil Nazi Soldier” instead of simply “firstname Heil” is worse (and less plausibly deniable), and helps explain why she might have chosen that otherwise innocuous firstname.