re: #45 Gus

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10 percent.

… Svoboda’s platform aims for nothing less than a “social and national revolution” in Ukraine. Associations with “National Socialism,” therefore, are no accident. The party was formerly known as the “Social-National Party of Ukraine.”

Yet in 2004, the party and its leader, Oleg Tiahnibok, were expelled from a political union with Nascha Ukraina, or “Our Ukraine.” Grounds for the expulsion was a speech Tiahnibok gave that was both anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant, causing an uproar in Ukraine.

Tiahnibok sought a fresh start under the name “Svoboda.” Naming the group “Freedom” was in vogue among right-wing radical groups throughout Europe at that time - due largely to the success of the Freedom Party of Austria. After the party’s rechristening, Svoboda removed all symbols of National Socialism, including those used by Nazi military SS “death squad” groups….