Russians don't know what Nazis are. They just know some people called Nazis attacked them in WW2, so denazifying = stopping enemies of Russia.
It isn't talking about the Azov battalion or anything; that's an uncalled-for steelmanning because everyone is free associating things they read about in the news.
My granma told me what was happening in Khmelnik (West Ukraine) at times of German occupation.
50% of the city was Jewish. And almost zero left in first few months. And that was done primarily by locals from UPA - not Germans. You can hide from a German but cannot hide from your neighbor.
UPA and Stepan Bandera[1] is a hero of Ukraine now - it is a street in Kiev named after him.
Despite the fact that Poland and Russia condemn him as a war criminal - for massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians.
And now Ukrainian refugees are coming to Poland... That will not be that easy ... Liberal values are quite thin as practice shows.
I am quite surprised that nice Jew guy mr. Zelensky didn't do anything about it. Probably because he is not who rule there.
Fighting nazis/nazism is a 80 year old commie propaganda meme. They used it to brainwash us before 1990 in my country as well. I think it strikes a chord with most of the former residents of the USSR.
It isn't talking about the Azov battalion or anything; that's an uncalled-for steelmanning because everyone is free associating things they read about in the news.