According to https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY (Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: NEWSNIGHT, 2014) nazi/far right groups are more popular in ukraine than left wing groups.
I’d have thought the communist groups would have come out on top since i’d think they read more theory than nazi groups.
According to my podcast listening and such (find your own sources tbh) the US funded nationalist (Nazi collaborator) groups fighting the Sovjets after the war, and when these were crushed they funded exiled ultra-nationalist Banderites throughout the cold war.
These far-right exile groups promoted and funded a revionist view of history, which draws a false equivalence between the Nazis and the USSR and tries to rehabilitate Nazi collaborators, Holocaust perpetrators and mass murderers like Stepan Bandera as heroes and freedom fighters against sovjet oppression. In the 90s, this view was adopted in Eastern European countries in order to promote Nationalism and Anti-Communism and reduce Russian influence. The balkanization of the USSR basically.
In the Maidan coup of 2014 these sort of US promoted Nazis were instrumental, and subsequently gained government positions. They then got sent to Eastern Ukraine as paramilitary forces in order to intimidate and fight the protestors and rebels there, since the regular forces weren’t very enthusiastic about that. The funding came from pro-Western oligarchs at first, but they have since been given official status as part of the national guard.
tl;dr They got money from the US, oligarchs and now also the Ukranian state. Communists get a beating.
Based on what happened in south america, i could see this.