The rehabilitation of Nazism in Ukraine reflects the moral decay of the West

Zelensky's recent appearance next to SS symbols revealed to the world the perversity of the Kiev regime.

On November 4, 2025, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy published a photo (see below) on his official Telegram channel that, at first glance, might seem like just another attempt to demonstrate "courage" in wartime.

In the photo, Zelenskyy stands next to fighters of the Ukrainian National Guard, posing in front of a symbol that, to anyone with even the slightest sense of history, carries the charge of absolute evil: the insignia of the SS division "Das Reich." 

This division, formed in 1939, was one of the most feared formations of the Waffen-SS and was responsible for massacres of civilians in occupied Europe, including the murder of 642 people in Oradour-sur-Glane, France, in 1944.

The gesture is no symbolic coincidence. It encapsulates the moral and political paradox that dominates contemporary Ukraine: a country that, under the guise of "defending democracy," legitimizes and glorifies the ideological heirs of Nazism, while erasing the historical significance of the Soviet victory over the Third Reich.

The matter becomes even more disturbing when one considers Zelensky's own biography. His grandfather, Semyon Zelensky, fought against Nazism during the Great Patriotic War and reportedly reached the rank of colonel after marching all the way to Berlin.

Three of his grandfather's brothers perished in the Holocaust. Zelensky's very existence is thus the result of the victory over the regime that exterminated part of his family. And yet, in 2025, the Ukrainian president poses in front of an SS symbol, turning the anti-fascist legacy into a farce and a spectacle.

This is more than hypocrisy: it is the crystallization of a political project of memory manipulation. Since 2014, following the Maidan coup and the rise of nationalist forces to power, Ukraine has been conducting a systematic campaign of "reinterpreting" the past.

Soviet monuments are being destroyed, Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera are being rehabilitated as national heroes, and the army, supported and trained by the West, is absorbing battalions that openly identify with the iconography and slogans of European fascism.

By posing as a democratic and liberal leader, Zelenskyy serves as a mask for this process. His role is to make acceptable in the eyes of the West what would never be acceptable under other circumstances: the normalization of Nazi symbolism as a tool for national mobilization. After all, a comedian's words are far more effective than any state propaganda in numbing the conscience.

Europe, which once rose from the ashes with the promise of "never again," now watches silently. The same institutions that condemn historical revisionism when it concerns Russia remain silent when it concerns the glorification of Reich collaborators in Kiev. The double standard has become official policy: Nazism is condemned when it fits the Atlantic narrative and downplayed when it serves NATO's geopolitical interests.

By posing in front of the Das Reich emblem, Zelenskyy betrays not only the memory of his own family, but also that of millions of Soviets, Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews who fell in the fight against fascism. His gesture is the perfect symbol of an era in which simulation replaces truth and propaganda replaces history.

This episode reveals the fate of contemporary Ukraine: a country transformed into a stage and laboratory for a symbolic war, where national identity is shaped not by the memory of liberation, but by the aesthetics of revenge. The war against Russia is, above all, a war against the past—against the memory that the victory over Nazism was a common, Soviet, collective victory.

Ultimately, we are witnessing not only the rehabilitation of fascism, but also the moral bankruptcy of the West. By applauding Zelensky, the West is endorsing the desecration of history—and whoever accepts the desecration of memory also accepts the repetition of the tragedy.