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A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised ‘White Pride’ – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.

At the festival itself, a large screen installation flashed words such as “victory” and “honor” – in German – and the unmistakable phrase “White Power” in English.

It was organized by the Azov Regiment, a one-time “volunteer battalion” that became notorious during the civil war in Ukraine’s east, and is now part of the country’s National Guard.

Azov’s logo is the “Wolfsangel” rune used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division ‘Das Reich’ in WWII.

Their leader, Andriy Biletsky, once said that Ukraine’s purpose was to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade” against the “Semite-led Untermenschen.”

During the summer of 2014, they fought under the command of Andriy Parubiy, founder of the Social-National Party of Ukraine (whose logo was also the Wolfsangel) and co-founder with Biletsky of Patriot of Ukraine. Parubiy led the armed faction of Maidan protesters that had carried out a coup in Kiev in February 2014. He was rewarded for failure in the war by becoming the chair of the Ukrainian Rada for three years.

That might be a clue as to why the government in Kiev hasn’t done anything to curb these overt Nazi displays. The ultra-nationalists brought Petro Poroshenko to power in the first place, and he was not inclined to go against them. Indeed, he embraced their cult of Stepan Bandera, the WWII leader of Ukrainian nationalists.

Ukrainian courts have also sided with the radicals over the general public and even their own media.

When the Kiev-based Hromadske news outlet – itself a major player in the 2013 protests that led to the coup – referred to the ultra-nationalist group C14 as “neo-Nazis” last year, C14 sued for defamation and the court ruled in their favor. Hromadske had to pay a fine. Human Rights Watch complained, but the verdict stood.

Yet the very name of C14 is a direct reference to the “14 words” of US white nationalist David Lane, and the group celebrated Hitler’s birthday in 2018 by destroying a Roma camp in Kiev and chasing its terrified residents, including children, through the streets.

What did the government do? It gave C14 public funding to run “national-patriotic education projects” at youth summer camps. Moreover, this happened under Ukraine’s first-ever Jewish prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman.

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curious how the nazis look a lot like antifa, hmmm

maybe antifas are complicit with the nazi agenda and all their actions are intended to obfuscate the truth of their beliefs, brownshirts much?

killingravensun said:

curious how the nazis look a lot like antifa, hmmm

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Eminence said:

What kind of far left "revolutionary" group gets backed by corporations and ignored by the police when they attack people?

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Eminence said:

Attempting to hit people in the heads with hammers could easily lead to death

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During a meeting hosted by the American Foreign Policy Society inside the Senate, I seized the chance to ask Parubiy’s hosts why they were welcoming a figure who was so central to the extremism overtaking Ukrainian society. I also put the question to Michael Carpenter, a former Pentagon official who helped deepen the US relationship with post-coup Ukraine during the Obama administration.

The responses I received reflected a semi-official policy of denying the very existence of Ukraine’s far-right plague in order to turn the heat up on Moscow.

The Ukrainian lawmaker appeared on a panel alongside fellow speakers of Eastern European parliaments eager to join the US-NATO crusade against Russia in exchange for handsome aid packages. At the top of the agenda was stopping the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany, a project viewed in Washington as an existential threat to US economic leverage over Europe.

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Eminence said:

I mean it's pretty obvious by now, it's not only right wing people that see all this.

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Kryptos said:

Eminence said:

Attempting to hit people in the heads with hammers could easily lead to death

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If only Andy the right wing liar would stop bringing hammers to rallies.

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I barely know about Andy, I only heard about him because of that moment. But I didn't see any footage of him with a hammer, all I saw was him walking away after being punched and having things thrown at him. I did see some dude with Antifa swinging hammers at people the other day trying to get on to a bus and then busting out the windows though.

Kryptos said:

Eminence said:

I mean it's pretty obvious by now, it's not only right wing people that see all this.

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No, it seems to be only right wing people that see all this.

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Keep telling yourself that if you want I guess, do you count Democrats that criticize their party right wing too? You one of those people that say people like Tim Pool is a fascist? There are plenty of democrats and liberals who don't like what Antifa does. I mean you haven't heard of that "#walkaway" thing with a couple hundred thousand followers with all the left wingers saying how nuts their party and Antifa are?

Eminence said:

Kryptos said:

Eminence said:

Attempting to hit people in the heads with hammers could easily lead to death

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If only Andy the right wing liar would stop bringing hammers to rallies.

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I barely know about Andy, I only heard about him because of that moment. But I didn't see any footage of him with a hammer, all I saw was him walking away after being punched and having things thrown at him. I did see some dude with Antifa swinging hammers at people the other day trying to get on to a bus and then busting out the windows though.

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christopera said:

I love how marginalized the right feels over Burger King continuing to sell milkshakes during Farage’s visit. The right should pass legislation banning milkshakes when conservative shitheads are in town, that would show the left what’s up.

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Kryptos said:

Hint: He's a well known liar and recently got fired from a right wing paper for editing footage so egregiously. Let that sink in. He got fired from a right wing outlet because his lies were too egregious for the RIGHT WING.

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christopera said:

They sold them before, they sold them during, they sold after.

Seems like they are the kind of company that sells milkshakes.

The only thing I took out of it was that it’s a classic crock of shit, one that’s full of made up things to whine about. Kryptos already called you out on it.

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