"Graham Platner's problem is that he lives just a tad too far south. If the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine wanted to make all the hubbub about his Nazi tattoo go away, all he'd have to do is move to Canada. The furor over Platner's Totenkopf, or Death's Head, tattoo stands in striking contrast to Canada, where both Nazi symbols and a shameful history of aiding Nazis is hushed over or, quite simply, blurred out."
"When reached for comment, a CBC spokesperson said, "The military trainer was provided to the reporter to speak generally about Russian tactics in Ukraine; we did not platform him, nor did we present him as a hero," and pointed out that the network added a disclaimer that "a tattoo of an offensive symbol has been blurred." The CBC didn't appear to be concerned that interviewing a man tattooed with neo-Nazi iconography is being legitimized-only that the "offensive" material is kept from the public."
The CBC blurred visible swastika and odal rune tattoos on a Ukrainian military trainer shown discussing a "shadow war" against Moscow. The trainer displayed large red swastikas and a winged odal rune associated with white supremacists. Social media users circulated stills that exposed the iconography, prompting the network to obscure the tattoos and add a disclaimer that an offensive symbol had been blurred. The CBC defended the interview as reporting on Russian tactics rather than platforming the man as a hero. The blurring prioritized hiding extremist imagery and reflects patterns of minimizing Canada's links to far-right and Nazi histories.
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