(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw6ep37469o)

‘Parliament speaker’? I went and did the mandatory nazi check on him. It’s not even a tenuous link - right at the top of his Wikipedia page:

"In 1991 he founded the far-right Social-National Party of Ukraine together with Oleh Tyahnybok; the party combined radical nationalism and neo-Nazi features (by its name and the “Wolfsangel”-like sign). In 1998–2004 Parubiy led the paramilitary organization of SNPU, the Patriot of Ukraine.

Literal Banderite Neo Nazi. Could not be a more blatant nazi if he tried.

Another article I found states: UKRAINIAN progressives called today for the immediate dismissal of parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy after he said on TV that Hitler had been history’s “greatest democrat.”

condemnation of these remarks came from Communist Party of Ukraine leader Petro Symonenko

This part was in fact propaganda, taken out of context by Russian media. I did not do proper research (as I admitted in making the post, but still). Thank you to the commenter who alerted me to this fact.

And yet, the it’s on the front page of the ‘neutral’ BBC, with absolutely no mention his past at all. They only state that he helped bring down Yanukovich in Maidan times.

They go as far as giving these rather revealing quotes, once you know the context:

"Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described Parubiy as “a patriot and statesman who made an enormous contribution to the defence of Ukraine’s freedom, independence and sovereignty”.

Sybiha added: “He was a man who rightfully belongs in the history books.”

Former President Petro Poroshenko said the killing of Parubiy was “a shot fired at the heart of Ukraine”.

“Andriy was a great man and a true friend. That is why they take revenge, that is what they are afraid of,” he wrote on Telegram, pointing to Parubiy’s contribution to building the Ukrainian army."

Well I never…