As the Trump administration mulls sending weapons to Ukraine, the question of far-right forces employed by the Kiev government has returned to the forefront. Some Western observers claim that there are no neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine, chalking the assertion up to propaganda from Moscow. Unfortunately, they are sadly mistaken.The article doesn't mantion that Andrey Biletsky is member of Ukraine's parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), founder of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, and leader of the National Corps Party. See the post below.
There are indeed neo-Nazi formations in Ukraine. This has been overwhelmingly confirmed by nearly every major Western outlet. The fact that analysts are able to dismiss it as propaganda disseminated by Moscow is profoundly disturbing. It is especially disturbing given the current surge of neo-Nazis and white supremacists across the globe.
The most infamous neo-Nazi group in Ukraine is the 3,000-strong Azov Battalion, founded in 2014. Prior to creating Azov, its commander, Andriy Biletsky, headed the neo-Nazi group Patriot of Ukraine, members of which went on to form the core of Azov. Biletsky had stated that the mission of Ukraine is to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival … against the Semite-led Untermenschen.”...
The Hill
The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
Lev Golinkin, Opinion Contributor
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Member of Ukraine's parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), founder of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, and leader of the National Corps Party, Andrey Biletsky, has urged Ukrainian authorities to launch an offensive on the republics of Donbass. To seize Donbass, Biletsky says, the Ukrainian army should use combat aircraft and do everything in its power to have Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance forces destabilize Russia."Our" guy.
In his statement, Biletsky advised that Kiev should think about turning the present war into a total “hybrid” one, involving all available forces to break up the Russian Federation....
Fort Russ
Top Ukrainian Nazi demands war in Donbass and terrorist attacks in Russia
Eduard Popov - translated by Jafe Arnold
I saw a documentary on the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis once. They showed all theses working class skinheads in gyms practicing man to man combat. What they all really wanted was a war with Russia and I could't believe how mad they were because most of them would surely die and their society would get wrecked, but nationalist skinheads aren't noted for their intelligence. Many of these people were also infamous for being notoriously violent football hooligans.
ReplyDeleteSo what makes them like this? Perhaps because never being good at much at school and then ending up at the bottom of society they feel that then if they can't be the best then at least they can at least be the worse or most menacing. Everyone needs good self esteem to attract mates and so if some people find they are not much good at anything they might find that they can impress others with their hardness, brutality, and fighting skills. These people are often raging racists and tend to be very nationalistically and so make good cannon fodder for the ruling class. They will readily fight to the death for their country because that makes them feel like heroes and so they are easily manipulable pawns for generals. And these people tend to vote for right wing parties which push them further down to the bottom.
The majority of Jews killed in WWII were murdered in the forests of West Ukraine, not in gas chambers. Slaughtered. Shot. They were murdered trying to escape and running through forest passages at night with their kids trying to get through the area to escape to the west. Kiev had become mainly Jewish. Stalin had made Kiev the Jewish capital for bankers, corporate people, etc. I can't remember the name of the Jewish author who described this in great detail, whose work wasn't discovered until 2005 or 2006 in a diary that became a worldwide sensation. Her first name was Irene.
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DeleteIrène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a wealthy Russian Jewish banker. In 1918 the family fled from Petrograd to Paris. Irène attended the Sorbonne, led a hectic social life, and married Michel Epstein in 1926. She had the first of her two daughters in 1929, the year she published the hugely successful David Golder. Over the next ten years she wrote nine more novels and forty short stories. When WW2 broke out the children were sent to live in Burgundy; their parents joined them in June 1940. In 1941 Némirovsky started work on her masterpiece Suite Française. She was deported to her death in July 1942. The unfinished manuscript of Suite Française survived unread in a suitcase; it was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. Dimanche and Other Stories is the first collection of Némirovsky’s stories to appear in English.
That's her name. However, in the book I read, which was written by her and whose daughter (who owned the suitcase) gave the intro, she grew up in Kiev as the daughter of a rich banker before moving to France. She died in 1942 at a concentration camp from typhus (as most Jews did).
ReplyDeleteHer own mother lived in luxury in Nice in an apartment on the waterfront, and didn’t give a shit that Irene and her husband Epstein were in trouble when Irene showed up asking for it. Refused to help them.