The Time: Right Sector’s ideology borders on fascism, 2014

While reading these materials, please, bare in mind that 'Right Sector' was officially registered as a political party (link is below) by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice.

The Time: Leader of Far-Right Ukrainian Militant Group Talks Revolution With TIME, 2014
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"Pravy Sektor’s ideology borders on fascism, and it enjoys support only from Ukraine’s most hard-line nationalists, a group too small to secure them a place in parliament.”

Let's see the extent of this 'bordering':
Right Sector (Пра́вий се́ктор, Pravyi sektor) originated in November 2013 as a right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several neo-nazi organizations. The coalition became a political party on 22 March 2014, at which time it claimed to have roughly 10,000 members. Right Sector was officially registered as a political party by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on 22 May 2014. Which is a bit later then the Time's article.

The Right Sector confederation's founding groups included:
(source: is The Foreign Policy Research Institute: Ukraine: The Squandered Renaissance, 2015)

▪️ Trident (Tryzub), led by Dmytro Yarosh and Andriy Tarasenko,

▪️ the Ukrainian National Assembly–Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA–UNSO), a political and paramilitary organization.

▪️ Social-National Assembly and its Patriot of Ukraine paramilitary wing (about those fascists: post one, post two) on the basis of which Azov battalion was made. (a dedicated post about those neo-nazi orgs)

▪️White Hammer led by Vladislav Horanyn, who commanded the Aidar Battalion which committed numerous atrocities in Donbass

▪️Carpathian Sich (here is a dedicated post about those nazis)

▪️C14 has made alliances with Right Sector on numerous occasions

Later some of the groups were removed from the organization not for their views on the purity of the race, God forbid, but for the lack of coordination in actions.


SOME CREDIBLE ARTICLES ABOUT RIGHT SECTOR:

▪️The Guardian: Ukrainian protesters must make a decisive break with the far right, 2014
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Previously marginal neofascists from the militant Pravy Sektor (the Right Sector) are now involved in negotiations with Ukrainian law-enforcement bodies. They will be among the undisputable leaders of the more radical part of the movement who will not be satisfied with a narrow rearrangement of powers as demanded by the opposition.
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▪️Le Monde diplomatique: Ukraine beyond politics, 2014
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Svoboda’s success over the past few years and the presence of neo-fascist groups such as Pravy Sektor in Independence Square are signs of a crisis in Ukrainian society. It is first and foremost a crisis of identity: in 22 years of independence, Ukraine has not managed to develop an unbiased historical narrative presenting a positive view of all its regions and citizens: even today, the Ukrainians are seen as liberators in Galicia but as fascists in Donbass.
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▪️France Info (TV channel): Ukraine: the embarrassing threads of Maidan Square, 2014
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"Pravy Sector" aka the Right Sector. These nationalists have a very good image in the population, they have a candidate for the presidential elections, but they also have a strong neo-Nazi coloring.
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▪️Foreign Policy Research Institute: Ukraine: The Squandered Renaissance, 2015
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Several existing paramilitary groups coalesced to form Right Sector, the declared goal of which was not closer ties with Europe but to “build a nationalist Ukrainian state and stage a nationalist revolution.”
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▪️The Daily Beast: Nazi Salutes and Fascist Chic Put Ukraine’s Jews on Edge, 2018
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Just a few days before the 73d anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazism in World War II, Ukraine saw a march of ultra-nationalists who proclaimed that Odessa should be cleansed of Jews. At the rally, the head of the Right Sector in Odessa, Tatiana Soikina, said: “We are sure that we can put things in order, so Ukraine will belong to Ukrainians and not to Yids, not to oligarchs, glory to Ukraine!”
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to be continued: part 2

Right Sector part 2: fascist ideology. part 1

▪️The National Interest: Beware Ukraine's Rising Right Sector, 2015
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Extremist and outright fascist organizations, such as the “Patriots of Ukraine” and “Trident,” united under the name “Right Sector.”
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▪️The Vice: Why American Right-Wingers Are Going to War in Ukraine, 2016
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Bandera's brief collaboration with the Nazis has led some members of Right Sector to meld their nationalism with a thin understanding of Nazism. Several I met did the Sieg Heil and praised Hitler. A few admitted that they did this because they knew Putin hated it, and they were willing to go to any length to aggravate him.
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▪️Global News (Canada): Blind eye turned to influence of far-right in Ukrainian crisis: critics, 2014
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But this is not the only far-right element within the Ukrainian opposition. The Right Sector – an alliance of extreme right-wing nationalists, including the paramilitary Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self Defense (UNA-UNSO) – is also a force.

The UNA-UNSO dress in uniforms that some have said resemble those of Hitler’s Waffen SS. Right Sector leader Aleksandr Muzychko — who fought in Chechnya and has talked about fighting “communists, Jews and Russians for as long as blood flows in my veins”— is accused of forcing members of a regional parliament to hold a session at gunpoint after he brandished a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
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▪️EU Parliamentary question from a Member of EU Parliament Miguel Viegas (GUE/NGL), 2015:
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Subject: Appointment of Dmitry Yarosh as military advisor To: the Commission (Vice-President/High Representative)

Abuses of democracy and human rights continue to be a daily occurrence in Ukraine. The appointment of Dmitry Yarosh, the leader of Right Sector, a nazi-fascist paramilitary force, as an advisor to the armed forces that have spread terror across the country, constitutes yet another sign of the authoritarian and anti-democratic nature of the present government in Ukraine.

Dmitry Yarosh, wanted by Interpol, has been tasked with integrating volunteer battalions into the army with the support of US instructors present in the country since the middle of last March.

I would like to ask the High Representative whether she is aware of this appointment and how these facts will affect cooperation agreements between Ukraine and the EU, through which the EU has been dishing out billions of euros to supposedly help the country out of the crisis.
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▪️AsiaTimes: The new Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia, 2014
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In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by US intelligence.
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to be continued in part 3

Right Sector part4: Main Accents 1

Prev. post about this neo-fascist political party can be read here: __part 1__, __part 2__, __part 3__

This text was taken from the Right Sector's website (if the link does not open then use this cached version)

About “Pravyi Sector”:

▪️The «Pravyi sector» National Liberation Movement (Національно-визвольний рух «Правий сектор») is a Ukrainian military-political movement of a new format, whose goal is to gain and build the Ukrainian Independent and Unified State - a national state of Ukrainian people. The movement is consisted of three segments: The «Pravyi sector» Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (Добровольчий Український Корпус «Правий сектор»), abbreviated as DUK (ДУК) - a military wing, that was formed in 2014 due to the Russian invasion to Ukraine; The «Pravyi sector» political party; the Prava Molod (Права Молодь) - a scout type youth wing of the movement. Among the urgent tasks the «Pravyi sector» sets to himself are Ukraine's liberation from both external - Kremlin's - and internal occupation of clan-oligarchic groups, as well as struggle against the imposition of extreme-liberal, cultural-marxist ideas upon the Ukrainian society.

▪️The «Pravyi sector» political party is a public-political segment of the movement, which primarily uses a "street politics" tactics. Conducts street agitation for nation-oriented ideas, opposes the internal-occupation system and any anti-Ukrainian manifestations by all possible methods, as well as supports the front.

▪️The «Pravyi sector» Ukrainian Volunteer Corps - the movement's military segment. Since 2014 it has been taken an active part in the Nation-Liberation War in the Donbass and fights with the enemy's subversive forces in the rear, setting itself the task of liberation all Ukrainian lands from foreign occupation.

▪️The Prava Molod - a scout type youth wing of the movement, which gives youth an opportunity for activism and self-improvement. It is a forge of frames for other segments of the National Liberation Movement. After 21 year, every PM member must determine a course of own further activities.

Ideology. Ukrainian nationalism, Natiocracy
The «Pravyi sector» Central Council: Andriy Stempitsky, Vasyl Labaychuk, Andriy Tarasenko, Yuri Paliy and Arseniy Bilodub. On the “Hierarchy”scheme (acting units, reserve units / local branches).

to be continued in part 5

Right Sector part5: Main Accents 2
Prev. post about this neo-fascist political party can be read here: __part 1__, __part 2__, __part 3__, __part 4__

This text was taken from the Right Sector's website (if the link does not open then use this cached version)

About “Pravyi Sector”:

History of the movement's creation:
The «Pravyi sector» was founded at the beginning of the Maidan revolutionary events on November 28, 2013 as a conglomerate of Ukrainian right organizations and individual nationalist-minded activists at the initiative of the All-Ukrainian Tryzub Organization. The newly formed movement immediately announced its tasks within the framework of the Maidan protests: the elimination of the anti-national government headed by Viktor Yanukovych and release of political prisoners. The main reason for such unification was the fact that nationalists had been distancing themselves from the Maidan leaders because of their compliance before Yanukovych, their reorientation from struggle for fair and free state to the struggle for the EU integration. And, first of all, for that naive and irrelevant pacifism, that the protest leaders used to call for. The «Pravyi sector» had become a driving force of the protests, which eventually forced Yanukovych to flee. Maidan became a popular uprising, but it cannot be called a National Revolution in our meaning, since all necessary national-revolutionary transformations haven't been implemented. Thus, Ukrainian Nation and our movement in particular has faced new challenges of fate: the aggression of Kremlin, whose chairmen took advantage of the unstable situation in Ukraine to occupy Crimea and part of Donbas. Thus, Ukrainian Nation and our movement in particular has faced challenges of fate. First of all it is about an internal threat associated with the Russian invasion - in 2014 the Kremlin took advantage of the unstable situation in Ukraine to occupy Crimea and part of Donbas. Another threat has an internal character - the Maidan events haven't brought Ukraine truly Ukrainian leadership, in fact Yanucovich's oligarchic clan has been replaced by another one, leaded by Petro Poroshenko. All these circumstances made the «Pravyi sector» to redevelop its tasks according to the challenges of time and continue the struggle in other forms.

Our slogans and mottos:
We are a force that defends!; Born by Maidan, hardened by war!; For Ukrainian Independent Unified State!; To the Freedom of Ukraine or Death! God, Ukraine, Freedom!

The movement's flag is adorned with the Combat Tryzub - a Tryzub symbol with an upward sword in the center - that is a historical symbol of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), leaded by Yevgen Konovalets, whom we honor as a great predecessor; the movement's name innoscription is executed in traditional Cyrillic alphabet, that is a reference to our roots - the Kievan Rus State's culture. The Red and Black Flag is one of the symbols of Ukrainian nationalism, this combination of colors is rooted to the nation's culture. What's more, this flag had been using by the OUN of Stepan Bandera* times, which is a great example of the Idea and Deed for us. Our conviction: only the Red-Black Flag of struggle will lead us to the Blue-Yellow Flag of freedom!
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* read all about this nazi scum here

So... The Time Magazine says that:
"Pravy Sektor’s ideology borders on fascism ..." Can we measure the width of this 'border'? Doesn't it look to you that the Time's border is quite... wide... by any standards and that the Right Sector is like... well... literal fascists?

I mean, how wide must the Time mag's border should be in order for the Right Sector to still be "on the border" and not "way beyond and over it"?! 🤔

Remember those nazis from Carpatska Sich? They are still alive and really pissed off about LGBT march in the Ukraine Army honor which is about to happen in Poland.

Here is a video where members of Sich says that this upcoming LGBT march is not supported by them and they are for traditional values. They think that LGBT support for Ukraine cast a shadow over Ukrainian Army and dishonors it.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/vityzeva/59317

Sorry no english subnoscripts. ;(

Le Monde (France): War crimes by a Ukrainian Police Battalion "Slobozhanshchina", 2022

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The analysis, by "Le Monde" and independent investigators, of a video supposed to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting at Russian prisoners, confirms its authenticity. The Ukrainian volunteer unit was present at the scene of the abuse in Ukraine. The images spotted by the independent analyst Erich Auerbach , and crossed by Le Monde with other documents available online, prove that volunteers from the Ukrainian Slobozhanshchyna battalion were on the scene when the Russian prisoners were tortured. While it is not possible to say with certainty that the individual who fired the shot came directly from their ranks, the leader of the group, Andri Ianholenko, clearly appears alongside the three victims, before the shots were fired. Asked by Le Monde , Andri Ianholenko did not respond.

There is a video in the Le Monde article which refers to some shady action of the battalion and among others mentions this article:

◾️ Ukranews (Ukraine): SBU arrested the commander of the "Slobozhanshchina" battalion on the suspicion of a preparation for the attack on Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, 2015
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On September 11, 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained the commander of the "Slobozhanshchina" battalion Andri Ianholenko on suspicion of preparing for the assassination of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov.

The press service of the SBU reports: "The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, prevented the murder of the Minister of Internal Affairs and other contract killings in Kyiv and Kharkov." It is noted that the exposed criminal group, headed by the battalion commander, was preparing the murders of high-ranking police officers, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, volunteers and businessmen.

P.S.
Different transliterations of the same name: Slobozhanschina, Slobozhanshchyna , Спецбатальйо́н «Слобожа́нщина». Wiki page for the battalion.

Another journalist, this time John Mark Dougan, hits the Enemies of the Ukraine State open Database "Peacemaker"

here is John's video about this event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXc5AlRc_C8

The Israel National News: Exhibition in Ukrainian parliament glorifies Nazi collaborators, 2018

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The exhibition's features the text from the Act of the Establishing of the Ukrainian State dated June 30, 1941:

"3. Newly established Ukrainian State will closely co-operate with National Socialist Great Germany under the leadership of its Leader Adolf Hitler building the New Order in Europe and the world".

Many other documents at the exhibition openly glorify Nazism.

That exhibition was ceremonially visited by Vice Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kirilenko, as stated on the gov. official website, he said: "It's only relatively recently when we started to get familiar with history works, art works celebrating UPA*. It was a long way for Ukraine to recognize UPA, which is our common history."
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*About UPA atrocities:
◾️USA Today, The Salon, The HuffPost etc.
◾️The University of Pittsburgh: Ukraine myth making;
◾️The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the UPA;

For those wanting more info from western credible sources (BBC, The Guardian, NBC news etc) about nazis in power in Ukraine, here's the link to my subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineNaziWatch/

Currently my subreddit has many more posts, comments and the whole 801-some subscribers 😂

Well, maybe you like reddit and it will be much more digestible for you to read info there.

BBC: Fascist salute was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian [soccer] game I went to, 2012

From BBC's 2012 documentary, Stadiums of Hate, produced back when the UK state broadcaster acknowledged the real influence of Ukrainian neo-Nazis
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"The fascist sieg heil "was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian [soccer] game I went to"

Bare in mind that almost all the Ukrainian volunteer battalions in 2014 were formed from the football hooligans. This BBC exclusive just shows the state of the football culture in 2012. It was rotten to the core and it was a fertile land to grow neo-nazi battalions to fight in the Ukraine Civil war of 2014-2022

The Guardian: Leading British historian is utterly outraged by prohibition of his book in Ukraine, over passage detailing wartime murder of Jewish children by Ukrainian militia, 2018

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In 2016, Ukraine passed a law that banned books imported from Russia if they contained “anti-Ukrainian” content, with an “expert council” assessing noscripts for such content.

Antony Beevor said the ban is “pretty depressing from point of view of Ukraine itself – they want to show themselves as being so much more democratic than Russians to the north and then they’re doing this”.
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The Salon: As the situation in Ukraine continues to fester, a handy history guide -- from A (Argentina) to Z (Zaire), 2014

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The U.S. is backing Ukraine's extreme right-wing Svoboda party and violent neo-Nazis whose armed uprising paved the way for a Western-backed coup. Events in the Ukraine are giving us another glimpse through the looking-glass of U.S. propaganda wars against fascism, drugs and terrorism. The ugly reality behind the mirror is that the U.S. government has a long and unbroken record of working with fascists, dictators, druglords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of the world in its elusive but relentless quest for unchallenged global power.

Just for fun: Is it that hard to take a picture in the Ukraine without a nazi of some sort getting into the camera?!


Link to the reuters original

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▪️ The Guardian: neo-nazi Member of Ukraine Parliament assaults the acting head of the National Television, 2014

If The Guardian's link to the video of the event is broken, then here is a working one: in this video Miroshnychenko attacks and beats the acting head of the National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine Oleksandr Panteleimonov and makes him write a letter of resignation.

context:
The attacker is Ihor Miroshnychenko a member of neo-nazi Svoboda political party (which is the descendant of fascist Social-Nationalist party of Ukraine). The guy ranks at 5th place of top anti-Semites (see this post) according to Simon Wiesenthal Center and a member of Ukraine Parliament (Rada) in his public speech given on a demonstration says that he wants to send Russian Language to Ghetto. Turn on the Eng subs (the auto translated subs.)



Other articles covering the assault >>>

▪️DailyMail (UK) is quoting Heather McGill, Ukraine researcher at Amnesty International:
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"It is astonishing that a member of the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech was involved in this attack. The acting authorities must send a signal that this sort of behavior will not be tolerated in Ukraine."

Russian officials have repeatedly claimed that the new interim government in Kiev is run by radicals and "neo-Nazis", and the actions by the Svoboda MP will play into their hands.
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▪️International Business Times: Svoboda: The Rising Spectre Of Neo-Nazism In The Ukraine, 2012
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The Ukraine’s far-right ultra-nationalist political party, Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union, recently received global media attention after one of its officials called Ukrainian-born American film actress Mila Kunis a “dirty Jewess,” sparking outrage in Western Europe, Israel and the U.S.

Ihor Miroshnychenko, the deputy chief of Svoboda, wrote on his Facebook account: “[Kunis] is not Ukrainian, she is a Yid. She is proud of it, so [the] Star of David be with her.”
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