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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 10:48 AM Aug 2014

Ukraine Crisis: The Neo-Nazi Brigade Fighting Pro-Russian Separatists

Kiev throws paramilitaries – some openly neo-Nazi - into the front of the battle with rebels

By Tom Parfitt, Urzuf

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But Kiev’s use of volunteer paramilitaries to stamp out the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”, proclaimed in eastern Ukraine in March, should send a shiver down Europe’s spine. Recently formed battalions such as Donbas, Dnipro and Azov, with several thousand men under their command, are officially under the control of the interior ministry but their financing is murky, their training inadequate and their ideology often alarming.

The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti-Semites.

The Azov battalion uses the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf''s Hook) symbol on its banner (Tom Parfitt)

“Personally, I’m a Nazi,” said “Phantom”, a 23-year-old former lawyer at the ceremony wearing camouflage and holding a Kalashnikov. “I don’t hate any other nationalities but I believe each nation should have its own country.” He added: “We have one idea: to liberate our land from terrorists.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html
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Ukraine Crisis: The Neo-Nazi Brigade Fighting Pro-Russian Separatists (Original Post) Purveyor Aug 2014 OP
Well, politics and oil make for disgusting bedfellows - djean111 Aug 2014 #1
The same people who overthrew the elected government have genocidal hate to fuel them. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #3
Volunteer militias, no questions asked, are the unspoken and hidden truth of the matter. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #2
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. Well, politics and oil make for disgusting bedfellows -
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 10:55 AM
Aug 2014
"the western-backed government in Kiev is throwing militia groups – some openly neo-Nazi - into the front of the battle."

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. The same people who overthrew the elected government have genocidal hate to fuel them.
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 11:10 AM
Aug 2014

Wake up America, another propaganda snow job is being done to you.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Volunteer militias, no questions asked, are the unspoken and hidden truth of the matter.
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 11:09 AM
Aug 2014

The American media will not dare tell you this, because when war is in the wind all the media smells is profit and power.

Notice how very few videos we get showing the military? That is because of all the irregulars they use, mainly just vicious killer thugs.

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