Thread by @leonidragozin

Ha, that’s a new, Ukraine. TV debates between rival neo-nazis - Karas of C14 and Korotkikh of National Corps/Azov on Zik channel. Subject: Whom to jail for corruption. A step up from quasi-academic discussions of white reconquista on Azov radio. Screenshot via Roman Huba.

When he lived in Russia, Korotkikh founded National Socialist Society (NSO), one of the largest nazi groups in Russian history. Members of its offshoot, NSO-Sever, were jailed for multiple murders of immigrants and even some of their own.

A native of Belarus, Korotkikh was granted Ukrainian citizenship by president Poroshenko. In the picture he appears to be making “from heart to the sun” gesture - a crypto-fascist substitute for Sieg Heil.

For those who read in Russian, here is a story based on a monologue by one of NSO leaders, including the episode in which his comrades dismember “traitor’s” body in his bathtub while singing a Soviet song about patriotism. Bits of that video r still online
altgazeta.ru/news/9708-otkr…

To be honest, I can’t see how Ukraine can repel Russian intervention without tackling its larger than life problem with neo-nazis and polarizing ethnonationalism first. But that’s an unpopular point of view.