Posted on 03/08/2022 9:17:54 AM PST by JonPreston
Ukraine really does have a far-right problem, and it’s not a fiction of Kremlin propaganda. And it’s well past time to talk about it.
Ukraine’s far-right is like a hydra, with ugly heads that pop up far too frequently. Just within the last few weeks, an American-born cabinet minister thanked a group of violent neo-Nazi “activists” for their services, a soldier was photographed wearing a Nazi death’s head patch right behind President Petro Poroshenko and almost 1,500 neo-Nazis and friends threw a two-day Hitler-salute-fest.
Ukraine’s notorious Azov movement keeps growing. Since it was created in 2014 to fight Russian-led forces in the east, it made news by accepting openly neo-Nazi members into its rank. Now the Azov Battalion has become an official Ukrainian National Guard regiment. In 2016 the group formed a political party, which, they claim, now has tens of thousands of members. Earlier this year they unveiled a paramilitary force that doubles as a street gang.
Even as their party polls barely a percent, Azov is trying – as one of their higher-ups has told me personally – to build a far-right “state within the state,” running everything from nationalist study groups and mixed martial arts training to free gyms for youth and programs for the elderly. They’re also trying to turn Kiev into a capital of the global far-right, inviting neo-Nazis and white supremacists from around the world to visit.
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There sure is a lot of bullsnot surrounding this outright invasion of a sovereign nation.
Lol a parliamentary government installed at gunpoint by right sector and Svoboda nazis literally standing there with guns. Zelensky shut down two opposition broadcasters, arrested his defeated opponent and his main financier is a Uke Nazi leader. He thinks Bandera is a hero and have veteran status to OUN Holocaust killers.
Hmmm I guess he is a democrat now that you mention it.
Like the originals, no they aren’t very good fighting in the East.
According to many Neo-Nazis were taking over America when Trump won. Sovereignty is sovereignty. Picking and choosing the leaders of other nations was a bad habit of the Cold War.
“ He was like 12 or 13 years old at the time.
Active morally conscious of his actions Nazi collaborator is a hard case to make for someone that age.”
Good does not agree. Judaism and Christianity call that the age of accountability. Soros not only knew, he called it solve of the happiest times of his life later in the 1990s
God does with your soul, so there’s that.
I’ve no idea If “neo-nazis” are gaining power in Ukraine. But why doesn’t the Forward care that neo- nazis (and not all so very new, either— soroznaxi goes back up WW2) have seized control t
Theee times already in USA 2008, 2012, 2020 with patently rigged elections. Plus now the Nazis or Islamonazis actually allowed to sit in congress
Dear Forward — please wake up!!
Please describe:
What you mean by “Nazi”
What “problem” you are referring to?
Not trying to provoke a fight, but terms have been used in so may ways of late, I just want to make sure that I understand your question.
In Africa its common for guerrilla armies to recruit children for assassination, bombings etc. They do it because they are easy to manipulate. Also they know the authorities guard will be down given the ages and if caught because of the age authorities will go easier.
What that ass says in the 1990s about his activities in the 1940s I take with a grain of salt. I am sure he says stuff just to get a reaction from people, particularly the "hoi polloi"; who he holds in contempt.
They’ve already gained power here, so who gives a rat’s ass about Ukraine?
“This is not news.”
If you can believe the news.
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
He also added:
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
That last part WAS deliberately left out of all the DNCMedia coverage.
We've been invading our neighbors without apology since 1823. We call it the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids foreign powers from military alliances in our hemisphere, and we have invaded almost every Caribbean neighbor at least once in the ensuing 199 years. Right or wrong, it's what major powers do to protect themselves against rivals who might gang up on them. Russia now enforcing on its BORDER what we have long enforced throughout our HEMISPHERE.
Anyone who thinks Nazis are on tehright cannot be taken seriously or considered honest.
the group that calls itself antifa is Actually the Nazi party resurrected.
On thing about leftists it that they call others what they are.
Russia has a robust and skilled propaganda capability.
Be skeptical of everything like this that is out there
Just hope they don’t a ringer posting here on FR.
I’ve seen this movie. Isn’t this a Grisham Novel?
Dec 31, 2018.
Different President. Azov is NOT an active Regiment, but a reserve regiment... Specifically because of the Neo-Nazi contingent within it... New President...
Not sure what point this is supposed to make. They have had problems. Poroshenko was a big part of that which is why Zelensky is now Pres...
Er... Nazi’s are by definition Socialists...
Frequently, Right-wing types continually get painted with that brush by the Far Left Communists...
But Nazi’s aren’t “Right-wing” no matter how much the Left tries.
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