Ukraine's Nazi problem

There are 37,541,693 Ukrainians in Ukraine. (State Statistics Committee of Ukraine) Liberals defend Ukraine saying only between 8% and 10% are Nazis, That means there could be at least between 3,003,335 and 3,754,169 Nazis in Ukraine.

In October 2012 Svoboda got 10.44% of the votes in the parliamentary election. It should be noted that Svoboda is the political wing of C14. Svoboda itself used to be called the Social-National Party of Ukraine. Svoboda, prior to the 1998 election, was part of the Less Words electoral coalition. This coalition also contained the All-Ukrainian Political Movement "State Independence of Ukraine" party which only accepted ethnic Ukrainians as members.
Fatherland, the party whose leader incited Russian genocide, had an electoral pact with Svoboda. (NY Times, Kyiv Post) Fatherland got 25.55% of the votes in the 2012 election.
The Patriots of Ukraine/ National Corps Party git 2.15% of votes in the July 2019 parliamentary election.
The Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence got 0.51% of the votes and won 3 seats in the 1994 parliamentary election. (The radical right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 by Sabrina Ramet, Pennsylvania University Press. 1999 ISBN 0-271-01810-0 (page 290 and continuing from there))
It also won a seat in the 2002 election. This is significant as The Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence is the political wing of the overtly Nazist group Right Sector. Right Sector itself was formed from a coalition of groups including the Social-National Assembly, Patriot of Ukraine, and other far-right organisations. (Haaretz)
The Social-National Assembly created the infamous Azov Battalion (Financial Times) which has a working relationship with Right Sector and the National Corps. Over half of the Azov Battalion's members are in the Social-National Assembly. (Al Jazeera)
The Azov Battalion, Right Sector's Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, and the Ukrainian National Union have all participated in the Donbass genocide. Reuters and Al Arabiya reported that over 15,000 were killed in that genocide and the UN found that Ukrainian military shelling caused 81% of civilian casualties in Donbass.
Right Sector got 1.8% of the votes and won 2 seats in the 2014 election. Its leader Dmytro Yarosh won his seat with 29.8% of the votes in his constituency. Its spokesperson Boryslav Bereza won his seat with 29,4% of the votes in his constituency. The name Right Sector derives from the fact it militarily defended the right flank of the Maidan protest. (Maidan Press Center) The Telegraph reported that Right Sector was involved in the Odessa massacre in which 46 people were burned to death in a trade union building.
The Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists was set up by émigrés of Stepan Bandera's Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists. (Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith by Andrew Wilson, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521574579 (page 78))
Prior to the 1998 election, it formed an electoral coalition with the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party and Ukrainian Republican Party. The name of the electoral coalition was, I shit you not, the National Front. It got 2.71% of the votes and won 6 seats.
The Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists won 2 seats in the 2010 local elections in Lviv Oblast. In the 2020 local elections, it won 17 seats.

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