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🇺🇦 Ukrainian neo-Nazies.
Omg this is legendary! Someone give this guy an Oscar who made this!!
COCAINE IN THE UKRAINE!
Perfect summary of the spoiled children of US senators who screwed Ukraine beyond return and caused world hunger as a result.
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#neonazies #ukraine
Omg this is legendary! Someone give this guy an Oscar who made this!!
COCAINE IN THE UKRAINE!
Perfect summary of the spoiled children of US senators who screwed Ukraine beyond return and caused world hunger as a result.
Subscribe to my channel: @heilukraine1959
#neonazies #ukraine
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The Daily Mail: Do not be surprised to see fascist filth in the staduim stands, identified by Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs as a hot-bed for racism, 2009
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It is the skinheads who blight football in [Ukraine] and revel in their reputation for violence and intimidation. England can expect hostility.
Do not be surprised to see and hear fascist filth in the stands, identified by Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs as a hot-bed for racism and right-wing politics.
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Bare in mind, that almost all the Ukrainian volunteer battalions in 2014 were formed from the football hooligans. And the only real fighting force in the Ukraine were exactly those battalions and not the regular army.
This BBC exclusive (Fascist salute was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian [soccer] game I went to, 2012) just shows you the state of the football culture in 2012. It was rotten to the core and it was a fertile ground to grow neo-nazi battalions to fight in the Ukraine Civil war of 2014-2022.
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It is the skinheads who blight football in [Ukraine] and revel in their reputation for violence and intimidation. England can expect hostility.
Do not be surprised to see and hear fascist filth in the stands, identified by Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs as a hot-bed for racism and right-wing politics.
==end of quote==
Bare in mind, that almost all the Ukrainian volunteer battalions in 2014 were formed from the football hooligans. And the only real fighting force in the Ukraine were exactly those battalions and not the regular army.
This BBC exclusive (Fascist salute was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian [soccer] game I went to, 2012) just shows you the state of the football culture in 2012. It was rotten to the core and it was a fertile ground to grow neo-nazi battalions to fight in the Ukraine Civil war of 2014-2022.
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Atlantic Council: Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline), 2018
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Government agencies at all levels should also stop cooperating with far-right groups. In addition to the Youth Ministry’s problematic funding, C14 and a Kyiv city district recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a “municipal guard” to patrol the streets; three such militia-run guard forces are already registered in Kyiv, and twenty-one operate in other cities as well. And C14’s dangerous leader Yevhen Karas even boasts openly about cooperating with the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU). All this needs to end and state officials found to be cooperating with extremists must be removed.
to be continued....
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Government agencies at all levels should also stop cooperating with far-right groups. In addition to the Youth Ministry’s problematic funding, C14 and a Kyiv city district recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a “municipal guard” to patrol the streets; three such militia-run guard forces are already registered in Kyiv, and twenty-one operate in other cities as well. And C14’s dangerous leader Yevhen Karas even boasts openly about cooperating with the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU). All this needs to end and state officials found to be cooperating with extremists must be removed.
to be continued....
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Belingcat: Yes, It’s (Still) OK To Call Ukraine’s C14 “Neo-Nazi”, 2019
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“Neo-nazi group C14 has seized a former militant of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Brazilian Rafael Lusvarghi, and were going to hand him over to #Ukraine’s Security Service, one of the group members posted on Facebook,” the tweet read, referencing C14’s extralegal seizure of a Brazilian man who had allegedly fought with Russian-led forces in eastern Ukraine.
P.S. On the photo doing nazi salute is Yevhen Karas (Евгений Карась) — the leader of C14
to be continued...
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“Neo-nazi group C14 has seized a former militant of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Brazilian Rafael Lusvarghi, and were going to hand him over to #Ukraine’s Security Service, one of the group members posted on Facebook,” the tweet read, referencing C14’s extralegal seizure of a Brazilian man who had allegedly fought with Russian-led forces in eastern Ukraine.
P.S. On the photo doing nazi salute is Yevhen Karas (Евгений Карась) — the leader of C14
to be continued...
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▫️Forward: Global Neo-Nazism Is Increasing, 2018
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On April 20, an organization called C14 — which has been described as having members who openly express neo-Nazi views by Radio Free Europe, among other outlets — carried out a terrifying anti-Roma pogrom in Kiev. Over the next two months, four other pogroms, including one in which a man was brutally killed and four others injured, raged across Ukraine. The outbreak of ethnic-fueled hatred was condemned by the The United Nations in Ukraine, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a joint letter by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders and Freedom House. All these expressed extreme concern with both the impunity of far-right gangs and the government’s lax response.
On July 21, the New York Times finally decided to cover the situation, focusing mostly on the original April 20 pogrom which had been filmed by C14.
P.S. Yevgeny Karas — the leader of C14
to be continued...
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On April 20, an organization called C14 — which has been described as having members who openly express neo-Nazi views by Radio Free Europe, among other outlets — carried out a terrifying anti-Roma pogrom in Kiev. Over the next two months, four other pogroms, including one in which a man was brutally killed and four others injured, raged across Ukraine. The outbreak of ethnic-fueled hatred was condemned by the The United Nations in Ukraine, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a joint letter by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders and Freedom House. All these expressed extreme concern with both the impunity of far-right gangs and the government’s lax response.
On July 21, the New York Times finally decided to cover the situation, focusing mostly on the original April 20 pogrom which had been filmed by C14.
P.S. Yevgeny Karas — the leader of C14
to be continued...
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Bellingcat: How to Mainstream Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, 2019
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Another example of this trend was on display in early October at a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, when members of the far-right (including C14 leader Yevhen Karas) were invited to offer their perspective on the war in eastern Ukraine. Azov was also present, being the largest far-right group in Ukraine that also has a regiment in Ukraine’s National Guard.
“Yesterday I met with veterans,” Zelenskyy said in early October, “National Corps [the Azov movement’s political party], Azov, everyone else.” A photo from the meeting shows multiple far-right figures in attendance, including C14’s Yevhen Karas and Dmytro Shatrovskyi, head of the Azov-linked “Veterans Brotherhood.”
P.S. Photo: Zelensky in the center and Karas in the right bottom
P.S.S. I wonder what 'perspective' Zelensky was given in that meeting? After all the president is a Jew and thus has a inner super fault-tolerant nazi indicator... Right?
to be continued...
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Another example of this trend was on display in early October at a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, when members of the far-right (including C14 leader Yevhen Karas) were invited to offer their perspective on the war in eastern Ukraine. Azov was also present, being the largest far-right group in Ukraine that also has a regiment in Ukraine’s National Guard.
“Yesterday I met with veterans,” Zelenskyy said in early October, “National Corps [the Azov movement’s political party], Azov, everyone else.” A photo from the meeting shows multiple far-right figures in attendance, including C14’s Yevhen Karas and Dmytro Shatrovskyi, head of the Azov-linked “Veterans Brotherhood.”
P.S. Photo: Zelensky in the center and Karas in the right bottom
P.S.S. I wonder what 'perspective' Zelensky was given in that meeting? After all the president is a Jew and thus has a inner super fault-tolerant nazi indicator... Right?
to be continued...
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NBC News: Ukraine suffered a wave of anti-Roma pogroms in 2018
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But perhaps the most terrifying reminder of the 1930s took place in the spring of 2018 in Ukraine, when the nation suffered a wave of anti-Roma pogroms, with neo-Nazi militias attacking Roma settlements and killing at least one man. One of the gangs involved, the National Druzhina*, is a street patrol wing of the Azov organization, which also has a battalion in Ukraine’s armed forces; another group involved, C14, receives government funding.
* a militia formed by veterans of the far-right Azov Battalion;
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But perhaps the most terrifying reminder of the 1930s took place in the spring of 2018 in Ukraine, when the nation suffered a wave of anti-Roma pogroms, with neo-Nazi militias attacking Roma settlements and killing at least one man. One of the gangs involved, the National Druzhina*, is a street patrol wing of the Azov organization, which also has a battalion in Ukraine’s armed forces; another group involved, C14, receives government funding.
* a militia formed by veterans of the far-right Azov Battalion;
NBC News
Opinion | Not all Nazi victims are remembered equally. Here's why that matters.
Today, as during the Holocaust, the Roma are invariably one of the first ethnic groups to be targeted, while the world invariably refuses to care.
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A small appendix to the post about Ukraine football culture and the initial outlet of the young and stupid nazis for the 2014 Civil War in Ukraine:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/7503
https://news.1rj.ru/str/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/7503
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Juan Sinmiedo/Fearless John/Ukraine exposed. @Youblacksoul
◾The Armed forces of Ukraine and the Nationalist Battalions like Azov, made up from holigans, Neo Nazis and ex convicts.
◾A well-known representative of the team The Company ("Kryvbas", Kryvyi Rih) with the chevron of the team "Parny SS" (Chernihiv).…
◾A well-known representative of the team The Company ("Kryvbas", Kryvyi Rih) with the chevron of the team "Parny SS" (Chernihiv).…
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The Nation: Neo-fascists play an important official role in Ukraine, 2018
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That the snipers who killed scores of protestors and policemen on Kiev’s Maidan Square in February 2014, thereby triggering a “democratic revolution” that overthrew the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and brought to power a virulent anti-Russian, pro-American regime—it was neither democratic nor a revolution, but a violent coup unfolding in the streets with high-level support—were sent not by Yanukovych, as is still widely reported, but instead almost certainly by the neofascist organization Right Sector and its co-conspirators.
§ That the pogrom-like burning to death of ethnic Russians and others in Odessa shortly later in 2014 reawakened memories of Nazi extermination squads in Ukraine during World War II has been all but deleted from the American mainstream narrative.
... assaults on gays, Jews, elderly ethnic Russians, and other “impure” citizens are widespread in Ukraine, along with torchlight marches...
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That the snipers who killed scores of protestors and policemen on Kiev’s Maidan Square in February 2014, thereby triggering a “democratic revolution” that overthrew the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and brought to power a virulent anti-Russian, pro-American regime—it was neither democratic nor a revolution, but a violent coup unfolding in the streets with high-level support—were sent not by Yanukovych, as is still widely reported, but instead almost certainly by the neofascist organization Right Sector and its co-conspirators.
§ That the pogrom-like burning to death of ethnic Russians and others in Odessa shortly later in 2014 reawakened memories of Nazi extermination squads in Ukraine during World War II has been all but deleted from the American mainstream narrative.
... assaults on gays, Jews, elderly ethnic Russians, and other “impure” citizens are widespread in Ukraine, along with torchlight marches...
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Remember C14 neonazis from prev.posts?
Human Rights Watch: A court in Kyiv ruled in favor of a state funded Ukrainian far-right nationalist group, C14 in its defamation suit about being called ‘Neo-Nazi’, 2019
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A court in Kyiv ruled in favor of a Ukrainian far-right nationalist group, C14, in its defamation suit against the internet TV station Hromadske.TV after the outlet published a tweet referring to C14 as a “neo-Nazi” group.
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Protection of freedom of expression has been steadily deteriorating in Ukraine just as violence by far-right groups like C14 has increased. Ukraine’s activists and journalists have repeatedly urged the government to adopt a “zero-tolerance” stance towards violence, threats, and intimidation from these groups. Instead, Ukraine’s authorities have focused on introducing restrictions on freedom of expression that they justify by citing the ongoing armed conflict and the need to counter Russian propaganda.
The group [C14] also hunts down Russia-backed “separatists” fighting in eastern Ukraine and reportedly receives government funding to carry out “national-patriotic education projects.”
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Much nice Ukraine judges, too big justice...
Human Rights Watch: A court in Kyiv ruled in favor of a state funded Ukrainian far-right nationalist group, C14 in its defamation suit about being called ‘Neo-Nazi’, 2019
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A court in Kyiv ruled in favor of a Ukrainian far-right nationalist group, C14, in its defamation suit against the internet TV station Hromadske.TV after the outlet published a tweet referring to C14 as a “neo-Nazi” group.
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Protection of freedom of expression has been steadily deteriorating in Ukraine just as violence by far-right groups like C14 has increased. Ukraine’s activists and journalists have repeatedly urged the government to adopt a “zero-tolerance” stance towards violence, threats, and intimidation from these groups. Instead, Ukraine’s authorities have focused on introducing restrictions on freedom of expression that they justify by citing the ongoing armed conflict and the need to counter Russian propaganda.
The group [C14] also hunts down Russia-backed “separatists” fighting in eastern Ukraine and reportedly receives government funding to carry out “national-patriotic education projects.”
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Much nice Ukraine judges, too big justice...
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Atlantic Council: Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline), 2018
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Government agencies at all levels should also stop cooperating with far-right groups. In addition to the Youth Ministry’s problematic…
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Government agencies at all levels should also stop cooperating with far-right groups. In addition to the Youth Ministry’s problematic…
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NBC News: It's a dangerous oversight to deny Ukraine’s antisemitic history, collaboration with Hitler and embrace of neo-Nazis, 2022
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But important as it is to defend the yellow-and-blue flag against the Kremlin’s brutal aggression, it would be a dangerous oversight to deny Ukraine’s antisemitic history and collaboration with Hitler’s Nazis, as well as the latter-day embrace of neo-Nazi factions in some quarters.
Statues have also been raised [in Ukraine] for Yaroslav Stetsko, a one-time chair of the OUN**, who wrote “I insist on the extermination of the Jews in Ukraine.”
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But even if some elements*** of the country have been entangled with one of history’s most loathsome movements, standing with Ukraine is without doubt the honorable posture to take in this drama.
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** some articles about nowadays honoring of OUN on the official level in Ukraine:
▫️ The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the Bandera lead OUN-UPA, (1943-1945)
▫️ University of Pittsburgh: Institutes of memory management and myth making were created in Ukraine, a key function -- to deny ww2 atrocities of the newly forged national heroes, 2005
▫️ 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
▫️ USA Today: Ukrainian President decorated a responsible for WW2 ethnic cleansings Bandera with the Hero of Ukraine award, 2010
▫️ Israel National News: Exhibition openly glorifying Nazism held in Ukraine Parliament, 2018
*** 🤯 Yeah, the extent of this "someness" is quite debatable, just read this telegram channel, don't be lazy and scroll the history...
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But important as it is to defend the yellow-and-blue flag against the Kremlin’s brutal aggression, it would be a dangerous oversight to deny Ukraine’s antisemitic history and collaboration with Hitler’s Nazis, as well as the latter-day embrace of neo-Nazi factions in some quarters.
Statues have also been raised [in Ukraine] for Yaroslav Stetsko, a one-time chair of the OUN**, who wrote “I insist on the extermination of the Jews in Ukraine.”
...
But even if some elements*** of the country have been entangled with one of history’s most loathsome movements, standing with Ukraine is without doubt the honorable posture to take in this drama.
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** some articles about nowadays honoring of OUN on the official level in Ukraine:
▫️ The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the Bandera lead OUN-UPA, (1943-1945)
▫️ University of Pittsburgh: Institutes of memory management and myth making were created in Ukraine, a key function -- to deny ww2 atrocities of the newly forged national heroes, 2005
▫️ 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
▫️ USA Today: Ukrainian President decorated a responsible for WW2 ethnic cleansings Bandera with the Hero of Ukraine award, 2010
▫️ Israel National News: Exhibition openly glorifying Nazism held in Ukraine Parliament, 2018
*** 🤯 Yeah, the extent of this "someness" is quite debatable, just read this telegram channel, don't be lazy and scroll the history...
NBC News
Opinion | Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't
Not acknowledging this threat means that little is being done to guard against it.
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WW2. Western Ukraine hails Hitler and for inexplicable reason Bandera. All in one place, on one banner, in the same words: “Heil Hitler! Slava Banderi”.
Next time someone tells you Bandera and his OUN & UPA fought both USSR and NaziGermany, slap the utterrer!
P.S. the mid banner: “Let there be the independant united Ukraine. Let there be the Führer Bandera”. Yep, the guy too was a Führer… what a series of inexplicable coincidences!!!
Next time someone tells you Bandera and his OUN & UPA fought both USSR and NaziGermany, slap the utterrer!
P.S. the mid banner: “Let there be the independant united Ukraine. Let there be the Führer Bandera”. Yep, the guy too was a Führer… what a series of inexplicable coincidences!!!
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The Hill: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda, 2017
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There are indeed neo-Nazi formations in Ukraine. This has been overwhelmingly confirmed by nearly every major Western outlet. The fact that analysts are able to dismiss it as propaganda disseminated by Moscow is profoundly disturbing. It is especially disturbing given the current surge of neo-Nazis and white supremacists across the globe.
Kiev’s rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators — a hallmark of European far right movements — has been condemned by Jewish organizations including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, Yad Vashem, and the World Jewish Congress.
This is not Russian propaganda.
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There are indeed neo-Nazi formations in Ukraine. This has been overwhelmingly confirmed by nearly every major Western outlet. The fact that analysts are able to dismiss it as propaganda disseminated by Moscow is profoundly disturbing. It is especially disturbing given the current surge of neo-Nazis and white supremacists across the globe.
Kiev’s rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators — a hallmark of European far right movements — has been condemned by Jewish organizations including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, Yad Vashem, and the World Jewish Congress.
This is not Russian propaganda.
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The Hill
The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
The media should acknowledge the existence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine as much as it acknowledges their existence in America.
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some articles from Greece:
▫️Estia (Greece): Azov battalions used us as hostages!, 2022
The original Estia article is hard to find (it looks like it either doesn't exist in a digital or heavily paywalled). So only the references from other Greek newspapers to the original Estia's article are given here.
▫️Γεγονότα Στο Μικροσκόπιο: "Azov's battalions used us as hostages!", 2022
▫️ΣΤΗΛΕΣ: Ως πότε τροφή μας το ψέμα; How long are we going to lie?, 2022
Bare in mind, Ukraine has an aboriginal Greek population. Now the quotes (autotranslated from Greek):
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Cry of despair from the Greeks of Mariupol* - They break their silence and reveal for the first time in "Estia tis Kyriakis" that they were shot, blackmailed, threatened and looted of the food they had in their apartments!
The militants of the nationalist group "Azov" did not allow civilians to leave the basements of Mariupol, and "dirtyly insulted" all Russian speakers.
This was told on June 12 by the chairman of the Greek society of the village of Sartana, Natalia Papakitsa, who was captured by the nationalists, in an interview with the local edition of Estia.
”The Azov us used as a hostage. Captured Greeks. Looted our homes. Shot disabled in the head. Because we were talking in Russian they kicked and abused us, chanting: HAIL MARIUPOL! HAIL FREEDOM!"
Papakitsa, along with dozens of people, spent 33 days as hostages in the basement of a house in the city.
“I saw how some unmarked men and women, in black clothes, with maps in their hands, advised Azov where to install guns. They fired in the direction of the left bank,” the woman said.
According to her, they could be British or Poles. Also, according to Papakitsy, while people were sitting in the basements, the militants robbed their apartments. And in order for those in captivity to have at least some opportunity to survive, they collected snow and extracted water from it. At some point, they all together decided to run away as a group, and in this way the Greek woman managed to get to the Crimea.
"A sick person with a disability took the dog out for a little bit of and a sniper from flats apartments him shot in the head. That was 150 meters away from us. There are tens of hundreds of such cases. All of this took place even before the Russian troops entered the city,"
Papakitsy states the complete indifference of the municipal authorities of the city. The authorities fled the city and abandoned them.
“When we finally got to the first Russian post, they gave us water and fed us,” the woman said.
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▫️Estia (Greece): Azov battalions used us as hostages!, 2022
The original Estia article is hard to find (it looks like it either doesn't exist in a digital or heavily paywalled). So only the references from other Greek newspapers to the original Estia's article are given here.
▫️Γεγονότα Στο Μικροσκόπιο: "Azov's battalions used us as hostages!", 2022
▫️ΣΤΗΛΕΣ: Ως πότε τροφή μας το ψέμα; How long are we going to lie?, 2022
Bare in mind, Ukraine has an aboriginal Greek population. Now the quotes (autotranslated from Greek):
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Cry of despair from the Greeks of Mariupol* - They break their silence and reveal for the first time in "Estia tis Kyriakis" that they were shot, blackmailed, threatened and looted of the food they had in their apartments!
The militants of the nationalist group "Azov" did not allow civilians to leave the basements of Mariupol, and "dirtyly insulted" all Russian speakers.
This was told on June 12 by the chairman of the Greek society of the village of Sartana, Natalia Papakitsa, who was captured by the nationalists, in an interview with the local edition of Estia.
”The Azov us used as a hostage. Captured Greeks. Looted our homes. Shot disabled in the head. Because we were talking in Russian they kicked and abused us, chanting: HAIL MARIUPOL! HAIL FREEDOM!"
Papakitsa, along with dozens of people, spent 33 days as hostages in the basement of a house in the city.
“I saw how some unmarked men and women, in black clothes, with maps in their hands, advised Azov where to install guns. They fired in the direction of the left bank,” the woman said.
According to her, they could be British or Poles. Also, according to Papakitsy, while people were sitting in the basements, the militants robbed their apartments. And in order for those in captivity to have at least some opportunity to survive, they collected snow and extracted water from it. At some point, they all together decided to run away as a group, and in this way the Greek woman managed to get to the Crimea.
"A sick person with a disability took the dog out for a little bit of and a sniper from flats apartments him shot in the head. That was 150 meters away from us. There are tens of hundreds of such cases. All of this took place even before the Russian troops entered the city,"
Papakitsy states the complete indifference of the municipal authorities of the city. The authorities fled the city and abandoned them.
“When we finally got to the first Russian post, they gave us water and fed us,” the woman said.
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Σάββατο 11/06/2022 | ΕΣΤΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΗΣΙΑ ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΣ
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Channel4 (England): How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum, 2014
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In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from deputy prime minister to head of defence.
Parubiy was the founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler’s Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians. The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda, the far-right nationalist party whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok. Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector – a group of hardline nationalist streetfighters.
Inside Right Sector was an alliance of hardline nationalist groups including Patriot of Ukraine and the paramilitary group UNA-UNSO. Their members paraded in balaclavas and wore uniforms bearing far-right insignia, including the wolfsangel.
The new Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is a member of the far-right Svoboda party, which the World Jewish Congress called on the EU to consider banning last year along with Greece’s Golden Dawn.
The initial actions of the interim government have included forcing making Ukrainian the only official language of the nation and making moves to remove a law which forbids “excusing the crimes of fascism”.
The anti-Russian far-right in Ukraine strongly associate themselves with the legacy of Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 2010 Viktor Yushchenko [president of Ukraine at the time] made Bandera a “hero of Ukraine”, despite charges of Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing by the controversial figure.
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In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from deputy prime minister to head of defence.
Parubiy was the founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler’s Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians. The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda, the far-right nationalist party whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok. Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector – a group of hardline nationalist streetfighters.
Inside Right Sector was an alliance of hardline nationalist groups including Patriot of Ukraine and the paramilitary group UNA-UNSO. Their members paraded in balaclavas and wore uniforms bearing far-right insignia, including the wolfsangel.
The new Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is a member of the far-right Svoboda party, which the World Jewish Congress called on the EU to consider banning last year along with Greece’s Golden Dawn.
The initial actions of the interim government have included forcing making Ukrainian the only official language of the nation and making moves to remove a law which forbids “excusing the crimes of fascism”.
The anti-Russian far-right in Ukraine strongly associate themselves with the legacy of Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 2010 Viktor Yushchenko [president of Ukraine at the time] made Bandera a “hero of Ukraine”, despite charges of Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing by the controversial figure.
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Channel 4 News
How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum
In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from deputy prime minister to head of defence. We profile the nationalists filling the power vacuum.