Examples of Nazism in Ukraine
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In 2013, neo-Nazis near the town of Lviv held a funeral commemorating the Galicia division of Waffen SS. The funeral was held in full Nazi regalia. 
An MP, Oleg Pankevich, was in attendance. thenation.com/article/archiv…
The World Jewish Congress released a statement condemning the ceremony. worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/wjc-ur…
In 2019, Horodok mall in Kiev was found sporting a Nazi flag on its staircase.
timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-u…
timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-u…
On October 6, 2022, Commander in Chief of the UAF Valerii Zaluzhnyi tweet a photo of himself sporting a swastika bracelet.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1579176546526371840
Lviv teacher Mariana Batyuk was photographed performing a Nazi salute with her students vinnews.com/2018/04/23/lvi…
Her bringing Nazism into the classroom led to a review by the Ministry of Education timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-teac…
Screenshots from Batyuk's Facebook page show laudatory posts about Hitler and her children posing with Waffen SS imagery.
The most common form taken by Neo-nazism in Ukraine is Banderism. Stepan Bandera led a faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists during WWII. Bandera is regarded as a national hero. rferl.org/a/Yushchenko_G…
Bandera's militia was responsible for the mass murder of Jews and Poles during the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogr…
Since the 2014 coup, Banderism has grown to overtake Ukrainian politics. In 2019, President Zelensky stated “Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing.” unian.info/politics/10521…
Here is a short list of public demonstrations commemorating Bandera.
2018, Kiev, Bandera’s 109th birthday kyivpost.com/multimedia/pho…
2018, Kiev, Bandera’s 109th birthday kyivpost.com/multimedia/pho…
2022, Kiev, Bandera’s 113th birthday timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-uk…
Bandera received a national holiday in 2018 timesofisrael.com/ukraine-celebr…
In 2016, the Kiev City County renamed a street after Bandera timesofisrael.com/kiev-renames-m…
In 2018, the Lviv region designated the following year as “the year of Bandera.” Even staunch Ukrainian ally Israel – which has armed Ukraine during the 2022 proxy war – was moved to condemn the decision. timesofisrael.com/israeli-ambass…
The Ukrainian government has also commission stamps of Nazis and their collaborators
The prevalence of this legislation prompted condemnation from another staunch ally: the US Congress. timesofisrael.com/congress-membe…
Here is Zelensky joking in a standup set that Mein Kampf is sold out in Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Gritty20202/status/1577285648922292224
Here is Zelensky praising a Nazi soldier on his official Instagram.
https://twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1562424616970137600
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeting out images of women sporting the Nazi Black Sun
https://twitter.com/lonelyredcurl/status/1501420181628731398
In 2019 a slew of high-level police officials publicly tweeted that they are “#Banderites” rferl.org/a/banderite-re…
Here is the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrii Melnyk denying that Bandera was involved in massacres, insinuating that Jews are making it up.
https://twitter.com/CPBritain/status/1543700723556388864
This is Zelensky posting photos of himself guarded by a man sporting the patch of the SS-Totenkopfverbande
https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1570092819154608131
Here is a clearer image of the Totenkopf
https://twitter.com/1ShoppingBlog/status/1590473593565347840
In 2021, Zelensky awarded “Hero of Ukraine” status to Dmytro Kotsyubaylo. photo.unian.info/photo/1101913-…
Kotsyubaylo can be seen here surrounded by flags of the Neo-nazi Right Sector
https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1588934368655212544
In 2021 the New York Times reported on Kotsyubaylo as a Right Sector commander. nytimes.com/2021/04/20/wor…
Banderite Volodymyr Viatrovych was elected to parliament in July 2019. Prior to his election he was the director of a Ukrainian historical institute devoted to rehabilitating the likes of Bandera. timesofisrael.com/head-of-ukrain…
In 2019, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk attended a neo-Nazi concert, along with the minister of veterans’ affairs. timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-pm-m…
In March 2022, Zelensky appointed neo-Nazi Maksim Marchenko to the head of the Odesa regional government. ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/341…
Marchenko had been commander of the Aidar Battalion. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksym_Ma…). Aidar has been investigated for executions of civilians amnesty.org/en/documents/e…
On February 27, 2022, Zelensky ordered the arrest of various prisoners serving sentences for rape and murder. Zelensky noted that these fighters could “compensate for their guilt” by fighting in “the hottest areas.” thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zel…
Among those freed are Ruslan Onishenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion. The crimes of Tornado are well-documented in an official investigation, finding video and eyewitness evidence of rape and torture.
The UAF and its various untra-nationalist regiments have served as an international nexus for neo-Nazis. In 2016 Grégoire Moutaux was arrested for planning terrorist attacks on Euro 2016 as well as synagogues and mosques. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/euro-201…
Moutaux had fought in Ukraine with various right-wing elements. lowerclassmag.com/2016/08/18/bru…
In October 2018, the FBI indicted four members of the US white nationalist organization “Rise Above Movement.” All four had trained in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion. mintpressnews.com/us-backed-fasc…
In Sept 2019, US-based white-nationalist Jarrett Smith was indicted for a terrorist plot. “Smith had since at least 2016 been in regular communication with Craig Lang, an American ... who traveled to Ukraine to fight with the ... the Right Sector.” thegrayzone.com/2019/09/23/bom…
A US Dept of Homeland Security document states “Ukrainian nationalist groups including [Azov] are actively recruiting racially ... motivated violent extremist white supremacists to join various neo-Nazi volunteer battalions in the war against Russia” thegrayzone.com/2022/05/31/ame…
A few days ago, Italian police busted a white-nationalist terrorist cell that had ties to the Azov Battalion. The arrestees had numerous contacts with Azov, Right Sector, and other fascist Ukrainian groups. A raid found Ukrainian fascist swag in their HQ. thegrayzone.com/2022/11/15/blo…
On Ukrainian TV, a panelist says “Donbas is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. ... There is a certain category of people that must be exterminated.”
https://twitter.com/Rosemar59080266/status/1579362948400943104
Here is a Ukrainian veteran calling for genocide in the Donbas. “We don’t need these people. When Ukrainian tanks enter the Donbas, they’ll all be destroyed.”
The USSR freed Ukraine, and the rest of Europe, from the Nazis. Here is Zelensky posing with a t-shirt of a Ukrainian jackbooted supersoldier stepping over the skeleton of a Soviet civilian cosmonaut.
https://twitter.com/VeraVanHorne/status/1580398125852028928
Ukrainian Azov members posting selfies on Facebook with the Nazi salute
https://twitter.com/LindseySnell/status/1581280785457242112
“Они информируют не только нас, но и Азов, Правый сектор и так далее” = “They [SBU] inform not only us [C14] but also Azov, Right Sector, and so on.”
Celebrity (in the West) journalist Ilya Ponomarenko calling Russians “uruk-hai.” Uruk-hai are a sub/semihuman beast that is slaughtered en masse in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Note that Ponomarenko refers to civilians (those commenting on the war).
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1504135687163068429
Reporter: “Who are the Nazis?”
Ukrainian child: “Nobody really. They are the good people who are protecting us.”
Ukrainian child: “Nobody really. They are the good people who are protecting us.”
https://twitter.com/MikhailLulu/status/1570297219521351682
US neo-Nazi Kent McLellan on his time in Azov. t.me/UkraineHumanRi…. Breakdown below:
https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1592273738170507265?s=46&t=vePjSjLOv4F9_by0wP4BHQ
Before their handlers reined them in, the US press was open about the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine. For example, the CIA cutout RFE/RL: rferl.org/a/ukraine-far-…
US/UK propagandist Bellingcat bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Stanford’s CISAC. Note the lack of any coverage of fascism after the 2/24/22 threshold. cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitan…
Here is presidential advisor Yurii Biryukov posting the Nazi slogan “1.4.8.8.” to his Facebook. glavred.info/politics/51484…
Biryukov advised the post-Maidan president Poroshenko between 2014 and 2019. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurii_Bir…
Lviv is an epicenter of neo-Nazism in modern Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/PanasukPetr/status/1586139114029699073
Zelensky posted this image on Victory in Europe day (see caption: “День перемоги над нацизмом” = “Day of the victory over Nazism”). Strange then that the cover image was a soldier wearing a Nazi Totenkopf patch.
Andriy Biletsky, first commander of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, was an MP from 2014 to 2019, directly following the Maidan coup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Bi…
Biletsky said in 2010 that “the Ukrainian nation’s mission was to ‘lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans].’” theguardian.com/world/2018/mar…
Right Sector founder Dmytro Yarosh was also an MP from 2014 to 2019. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Ya…
Right Sector is a neo-Nazi formation. The New York Times notes here that it venerates the old Nazi collaborators nytimes.com/2014/04/12/wor…
Right Sector is awash in self-avowed Nazis. Here is just one of them, a prominent Canada-based member Petro Shkilnyk
https://twitter.com/mossrobeson__/status/1288543194301501443
The Right Sector flag is black on bottom and red on top, a reference to Bandera’s OUN flag.
.@mossrobeson__ reports here on Right Sector’s Nazi-aligned activities in the US banderalobby.substack.com/p/right-sector…
Andriy Parubiy was chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) from 2016 to 2019 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Pa…
Parubiy is a neo-Nazi. He founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine with Oleh Tyahnybok in 1991. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-Na…
Atlantic Council report on the neo-Nazi character of Azov atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
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