DISINFO: Ukrainians turned into animals
SUMMARY
The question is how the Germans, the entire German nation, great culture, literature under Hitler turned into Nazis, racists, and so on. [...] the significance of this Ukrainian nation is somewhat exaggerated, but let's admit that it exists. That's how it turned into what we see. From common people to the top officials, literally into animals.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative dehumanising Ukrainians and denying Ukrainian statehood. See the false narrative Ukrainians are Russians.
Pro-Kremlin media have been massively accusing Ukrainians of being Fascists/Nazis since 2014 in order to justify the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Fabricated pictures are used to advance this narrative.
The definition of Ukranians as "animals" is very preoccupying.
During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Such dehumanization opens the door for cruelty and genocide, shows the research "Less then human: the psychology of cruelty".
Learn more about the reasons behind the Kremlin's obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state in the EUvsDisinfo analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".