SLAVYANGRAD.org — Ukraine’s Punitive Battalions

An industrious comrade began to collect statistics on the assorted punitive and territorial battalions of the Junta, where the structure is very confusing. Below is only a skeleton for a large database of the whole punitive organization, but eventually, the blanks in the table will be completely filled in…

Territorial battalions:

Definition:

The National Guard of Ukraine [(“NGU”), also known as Nationalist Guard, NaziGuard, or simply nazis,] is a structure with law enforcement functions; a part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police) of Ukraine; created by transforming the Police Internal Troops on March 12th, 2014 via a new law “On the National Guard of Ukraine”.

[Note: This is explained in the Wikipedia article on the Azov Battalion.]

By converting the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs into the National Guard of Ukraine, the coup-formed Ukrainian government achieved the following goals:
- Continuity of command in the ranks of the internal troops and the Ministry of Interior was broken, and their men put in key positions;

- Repression of political opponents under the guise of “cleaning the ranks of the internal troops and the Ministry of Interior” was enhanced and continued;

- Damaging files of criminal and administrative offenses were deleted; which – in the case of disclosure – could discredit the government;

- People in the former internal security forces who were too “by-the-book” were replaced; in effect replacing the “law and order” in the ranks of internal troops and the Interior Ministry with “ideological purity” and “nationalist ideals”.

Due to these changes the ranks of the NGU have swelled with volunteers and extremist fighters of the “Right Sector”. But, despite the apparent “ideological bias”, the confrontation between different battalions of the NGU, due to different understanding of the national idea, and different levels of training, has by now split the ranks of the National Guard into three structures:….

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Ukraine’s Punitive Battalions

Posted By S. Naylor

Translated by Daniel Mihailovich