WorldViews: Both Ukrainian and Venezuelan protesters have been called fascists. Why?

By Adam Taylor, February 28, 2014

In a news conference Friday, Viktor Yanukovych, now holed up in the Russian port of Rostov-on-Don, wasted no time in describing the protesters who had ousted him from the Ukrainian presidency in now-familiar terms. Euromaidan was just a bunch of "nationalist fascist youngsters," he explained, in what was his first appearance since fleeing Kiev.