Brazilian far-right supporters adopted Ukraine’s far-right symbols as their own.

Evidence

And you may have seen flags from Ukraine. Perhaps the national flag, but they also flew—or wore as a kind of a cape—the flag for Pravyi Sektor, or Right Sector, the group formed in the middle of the Maidan uprising in 2013, which became formalized as a paramilitary battalion and political party afterward. As Bolsonaro began to clash with other branches of government, his supporters began to call to “Ukrainize Brazil.” — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 730

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to earlier chapters on Ukraine/Maidan; shows how protest symbols travel and get re-appropriated across borders in the right-wing direction, deepening the earlier chapter’s point. — connects to: The MBL misappropriated the left’s protest repertoire and image — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 671; Social media microtargeting drove Brazil’s 2018 far-right electoral outcome — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1336; Brazil’s far right borrowed Ukraine and Indonesia’s de-communization laws as templates. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 732
• QUESTION: Why exactly Ukrainian far-right symbology landed in Brazil, and how did Kyiv-based Brazilians coordinate the transfer?

Broader Connections

• Brazil’s far right borrowed Ukraine and Indonesia’s de-communization laws as templates. #expands (0.90) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 732