What you are seeing is that the rebels are getting “froggier”, when it comes to “Special Missions”.
A few rebel “Spetznaz” did a nighttime motorcycle ride 40 miles through Kiev’s lines last week, the night of the Konstaninovka revolt, and engaged a Right Sector group sent in to restore order, killing some of them. The rebels claim they all got back to rebels lines safely the next day.
Last night, someone attacked and destroyed a Kiev Mobile Radar installation about 100 miles north of Luhansk.
And there have been a couple of claims by Kiev of rebel infiltrators captured in and around Kharkov, where there have been some bombings and attacks in the last few months.
How do you spell “Spetnaz”? Also, neo-fascist Russian motorcycle gangs are now being recruited by Putin to serve as shock troops in Ukraine. There was an article about the leader of one such group the other day. Full of tattoos and leather like “Sons of Anarchy”.
Yes, there are neo-fascist Russian groups and most are being allowed to function in both Russia and Ukraine as long as they don’t interfere with Putin’s activities.
Some of the best high-ranking East German cabinet officials during the 1950’s-60’s were former Nazi SS officers (i.e. Ernest Grossmann, Deputy Commandant of Sachsenhausen Concentration/Work camp), and others.
Information on them was given to me by the late Simon Wiesenthal (Vienna Documentation Center) which included captured Nazi Party/SS membership cards and both the English & German editions of “Former Pankow Nazis in the Service of East Germany” or similar German edition title, and “Former Nazis in the Service of the East German Government”.
Based on documents seized by the pro-democracy International Association of Jurists from Nazi/SS offices before the Russians could get to them (which they would use to blackmail Nazis into serving for Stalin/MKVD/KGB or face the firing squad).
Ah, the truth about the Cold War you won’t read about in American history books.