FACEBOOK ALLOWS PRAISE OF NEO-NAZI UKRAINIAN BATTALION IF IT FIGHTS RUSSIAN INVASION

FACEBOOK WILL TEMPORARILY allow its billions of users to praise the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi military unit previously banned from being freely discussed under the company’s Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, The Intercept has learned.

The policy shift, made this week, is pegged to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and preceding military escalations. The Azov Battalion, which functions as an armed wing of the broader Ukrainian white nationalist Azov movement, began as a volunteer anti-Russia militia before formally joining the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014; the regiment is known for its hardcore right-wing ultranationalism and the neo-Nazi ideology pervasive among its members.

While both Ukrainians and Russians have Jew-baiting LARPers, it’s Ukraine that voted in a Jewish president (Zelensky). And that’s after voting in a suspected Jew (Poroshenko) before Zelensky.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/smear-loathing-close-look-accusations-ukrainian-anti-semitism#
[This is all the more ironic since the self‐proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “republics” have always been a magnet for Russian ultranationalists and outright neo-fascists—starting with Pavel Gubarev, who began the separatist uprising in Donetsk March 2014 by briefly proclaiming himself the “People’s Governor” and hoisting a Russian flag over the city government building. Photos quickly surfaced showing Gubarev in the uniform of the militant group Russian National Unity, whose emblem bears an unmistakable resemblance to the swastika. The group’s leader, Aleksandr Barkashov, was also in close contact with the Donetsk rebels, vowing to help them fight “the vicious Kiev junta.”

After Gubarev’s arrest, a video of a Skype call intercepted by Ukrainian security services showed his wife and comrade‐in‐arms, Ekaterina Gubareva, taking instructions from a far more famous Russian fascist: author and “Eurasian movement” founder Aleksandr Dugin, who just then was openly calling for a “genocide” of the “race of bastards” that he felt had replaced the real Slavs in Ukraine. (A few years earlier, Dugin—who had written candidly in the 1990s about the fascist and even Nazi roots of his views—was the subject of an admiring interview published in English on the American white supremacist website Countercurrents.)

Other major figures in the separatist rebellion include Aleksandr Mozhaev, aka “Babai,” one of the leaders of a band of Russian Cossack militiamen known as the Wolves’ Hundred, who came to Eastern Ukraine in the spring of 2014 to join the fray. In a video statement, “Babai” explained that the Cossacks’ goal was to destroy “the Jew‐Masons” who were “fomenting disorder all over the world” and oppressing “us common Orthodox Christian folk.”

Last but not least, the first prime minister of the “Donetsk People’s Republic,” from May to August 2014, was Russian “political consultant” Aleksandr Borodai, a reputed state security officer with a long history of involvement in ultranationalist circles. Among other things, Borodai is a co‐founder, editorial board member, and regular host of the “patriotic” streaming channel Den‐TV (“Day”), run by his longtime associate Aleksandr Prokhanov, a notorious anti‐Semite whose views are a mix of Stalinism and mystical Russian nationalism. (Incidentally, Borodai is now back in Russia, where he is a member of the state Duma.)

Given this cast of characters, it’s unsurprising that—as Shekhovtsov reported on the Open Democracy website in May 2014—the Kremlin propaganda narrative depicting post‐Euromaidan Ukraine as a nest of neo‐Nazis would coexist with frequent, virulent anti‐Semitic rhetoric in the separatist movement in Eastern Ukraine. Shekhovtsov mentions street posters, leaflets, internet posts, and even speeches at rallies attacking the new government in Kyiv as a Jewish clique out to use Ukrainians to defend the interests of rich Jews, or depicting the Euromaidan revolution as a “Zionist coup.”

The Kremlin itself has sometimes resorted to subtler forms of Jew‐baiting in its psychological warfare against Ukraine. Last October, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former Putin‐puppet president and currently deputy chairman of the security council, published a repulsive ad hominem tirade arguing that negotiations with the current Ukrainian government were pointless because its members, in addition to being weak, greedy, and corrupt, were damaged people without stable national and ethnic roots. The longest and nastiest portion of the article attacked Zelensky as a man with “particular ethnic roots” who had “essentially rejected his identity” for political and pragmatic reasons and compared him to a Jew in Nazi Germany seeking a post in the SS.]

I’ll probably repeat this, but to the historically illiterate making arguments about Ukraine and NAZI’s (National Socialist), my following point will NOT get into real contextual detail of the Lenin/Stalin (Union of Soviet Socialist) Ukrainian genocides, and replacement of Ukrainians with obedient CCCP transplants, only to be followed by a NAZI takeover (with more Ukrainians and Jews wiped out), just to be retaken by Stalin with more death.

Historical context is critical, but not my points here.

To the point about “NAZI’s, depending on who you listen to, there are between about 350-400 all the way up to few thousand neo nazi Ukrainians in the Ukraine army out of 300,000 personnel (today the real number is closer to 500,000 personnel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
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There are an estimated 50,000-70,000 Neo-Nazis in Russia according to multiple Nnws sources, including from Russia.
https://borgenproject.org/neo-nazis-russia/
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Why are German neo-Nazis training in Russia?
https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-german-neo-nazis-training-in-russia/a-53702613
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Signs of Neo-Nazi Ideology Amongst Russian Mercenaries
https://informnapalm.org/en/neo-nazi-ideology-amongst-russian-mercenaries/
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President Zalensky is Jewish and was elected with well over 60% of the vote to fight corrupt oligarchs who were alternately in bed with Putin-connected Russian oligarchs.

Ukraine is unfortunately considered the 3rd most corrupt nation in Europe, after Russia and Moldova.

Also keep in mind Ukrainian President Zalensky stood staunchly with Trump, and defended Trump against the deep state coup d’etat efforts.

INVERSELY, poc’s from Putins Kremlin axis 🇷🇺🇨🇳 provided multiple fraudulent documents to the British and US deep state, in an effort to end Trumps candidacy and presidency 🇺🇸 -

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/04/20/newly-declassified-evidence-russia-didnt-try-to-help-elect-trump-in-2016-n385165

As well, while certainly not alone, both Russia and China conducted remote penetration and manipulation of NOV 3, 2020 election. This is a huge and covered up effort and subject itself.

[INVERSELY, poc’s from Putins Kremlin axis 🇷🇺🇨🇳 provided multiple fraudulent documents to the British and US deep state, in an effort to end Trumps candidacy and presidency 🇺🇸 -

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/04/20/newly-declassified-evidence-russia-didnt-try-to-help-elect-trump-in-2016-n385165]

Putin made the right call to go after Trump, given the way Trump had kicked him in the head multiple times, including that humiliating slaughter in Syria of hundreds of Russian mercs:

https://www.newsweek.com/total-f-russian-mercenaries-syria-lament-us-strike-killed-dozens-818073

Did Putin threaten to use nukes? No - because Trump would have laughed at him, knowing Putin’s not about to incinerate his own children and grandkids. Or hand a freshly-killed Russia to China.

[“The leader of the Ukraine is Jewish...”

Soros is Jewish and he helped the Nazis .]

Incorrect. He tried to survive the Nazis in a situation where every Jew was a target, and could be killed on the spot without penalty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Early_life_and_education
[Soros was born in Budapest in the Kingdom of Hungary to a prosperous non-observant Jewish family, who, like many upper-middle class Hungarian Jews at the time, were uncomfortable with their roots. Soros has wryly described his home as a Jewish antisemitic home.[33] His mother Erzsébet (also known as Elizabeth) came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop. His father Tivadar (also known as Teodoro Ŝvarc) was a lawyer[34] and a well-known Esperanto-speaker who edited the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo and raised his son to speak the language.[35] Tivadar had also been a prisoner of war during and after World War I until he escaped from Russia and rejoined his family in Budapest.[36][37] The two married in 1924. In 1936, Soros’s family changed their name from the German-Jewish Schwartz to Soros, as protective camouflage in increasingly antisemitic Hungary.[38][39] Tivadar liked the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning. In Hungarian, soros means “next in line,” or “designated successor”; in Esperanto it means “will soar.”[40][41][42]

Soros was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.[43] The Nazis barred Jewish children from attending school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat (”Jewish Council”), which had been established during the occupation. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: “The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper ... I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, ‘You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported.”[44][45]

Soros did not return to that job; his family survived the war by purchasing documents to say that they were Christians. Later that year at age 14, Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government’s Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding. On one occasion, rather than leave the 14-year-old alone, the official took Soros with him while completing an inventory of a Jewish family’s confiscated estate. Tivadar saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been “the happiest [year] of his life,” for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father’s heroism.[46][47] In 1945, Soros survived the Siege of Budapest, in which Soviet and German forces fought house-to-house through the city. George and his mother also spent some time hiding with the family of Elza Brandeisz and even attended their Lutheran church with them.[48]

In 1947, Soros moved to England and became a student at the London School of Economics.[49] While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter, and once received £40 from a Quaker charity.[50] Soros would sometimes stand at Speakers’ Corner lecturing about the virtues of internationalism in Esperanto, which he had learned from his father.[51]

From the London School of Economics, Soros graduated as a Bachelor of Science in philosophy in 1951, and a Master of Science in philosophy in 1954.[4] ]

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