Posted on 08/03/2019 4:35:28 AM PDT by NorseViking
Five years on, Mikael Skillt still doesn't know exactly what made him leave his construction job and his girlfriend to fight in the war in Ukraine.
Ive done tons of soul-searching, and the more I think about it, the less I know why I came, the 43-year-old told VICE News.
But an undeniable part of the draw was that Ukrainian ultranationalists, many with barely disguised neo-Nazi or white supremacist views, had been a driving force in the revolution. Skillt, at the time a notorious Swedish neo-Nazi with a 20-year history in the extreme-right scene, felt compelled to join their fight.
All guys who seek adventure dream about this, to create history, he said.
Skillt missed the revolution, arriving in Kyiv a few days after the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych. Instead, he got a war. A Kremlin-backed separatist movement soon swept across the Donbas, Ukraines southeastern region bordering Russia. Skillt, who had served for five years in Swedens National Home Guard, signed up to fight with the Azov Battalion, a newly formed far-right militia with deep neo-Nazi ties, and headed for the front lines.
Throughout 2014 and 2015 he served as a combat sniper for Azov, fighting in major battles in Mariupol, Marinka, Ilovaisk and Shyrokyne. I managed to get most of the big ones, he told VICE News.
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Vice News is a liberal POS site not “Neocon talking point outlet”.
Lol, Ukraine elects a Jewish President by 73% of the people, but according to you it’s “Laden with far-right mobs”.
They were heavily pro-Ukrainian government in earlier reports.
To the left, white nationalists are people opposed to communism & totalitarianism. The anti-communists, Augusto Pinochet & Francisco Franco, would be considered white nationalists today.
Theres a worldwide concern across the far right about European countries losing their white majorities through immigration, Marilyn Mayo, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, told VICE News. Theres a sense that theres a battle brewing to preserve white European culture, and thats where the desire for learning combat skills comes in.
Puuuuure HOTNESS..!!! OMG, another parting glance:
Please define what you mean by "far right".
Traditionally, anyone opposing the USSR was "far right" and a neo-Nazi.
LOL. That’s one sick puppy. I think I now agree:)
That part jumped out at me too; I'm not familiar with vicenews.com - are they stereotypical left-wing propagandists?
Ukraine elects a Jewish President by 73% of the people,
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Lol. by 73% of the people? Appalling voter turnout!
Bigoted Russophobia mobs.
Probably so they can try to equate "Far-Right Extremists" with returning ISIS fighters. And then they, and their fellow leftist propagandists will claim that anyone who isn't voting Democrat is a Far Right Extremist, or a White Supremacist, or some such thing. And of course, if it is OK for someone who went to fight in Ukraine to return home it is OK for someone who joined ISIS to return home.
Note how they used the phrase "Training Ground". Training for what? How to shoot at Russians?
There is a widespread campaign by the left to blame all of societies ills on conservative white men. Regularly we hear how dangerous white men are, even though terrorist attacks inspired by Islamic fundamentalists have killed far more people around the world and in the USA. And of course none of the liberals want to admit how many lives have been lost to leftist causes.
Funny.
A Russophobia Freeper claimed Czesch President Zeman is a far-right politician.
And according to John McCain and his neocon fans, Hungary PM Orban is a neo fascist.
There is no much difference between neocon and liberal.
Neocon is a liberal in a conservative skin (as sheepskin).
If that's your definition of "far right", then most of the current Democrat party qualifies as "far right", and the term thus officially loses all meaning.
Its about Ukraine.
I won’t call American Russophobia LGBTQ “far-right.
That’s a MAN, baby!
Well said.
I think you will see something similar in South Africa if the governor goes forward with land expropriations. Proxy war with whites traveling from Europe to South Africa to fight
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