Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
The battalion's far-right volunteers' desire to 'bring the fight to Kiev' is a danger to post-conflict stability
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The Azov causes particular concern due to the far-right, even neo-Nazi leanings of many of its members.
So, The Guardian is finally admitting that neo-Nazis are prominent in the Ukrainian government's campaign against the rebels. Better late than never. A month ago, people who spoke about this were ridiculed by columnists and reporters in this newspaper and called Putin propagandists.
Far-right radicals and even neo-Nazis were also prominent in the armed clashes on the Maidan that resulted in the overthrow of the democratically elected (albeit corrupt) Yanukovych. They did not hide their presense - they flew their neo-Nazi flags, carried their their neo-Nazi banners, wore their neo-Nazi armbands, and chanted their their neo-Nazi slogans openly on the Maidan, but the media chose to pretend that they were not there.
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If the Poroshenko regime is stupid enough to allow gangs like the Azov 'battalion' to do its fighting, it deserves neither respect nor aid.
Mr. Cameron's government must end all support for this criminal regime.
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Hang on. I seem to remember loads of people below the line warning about the danger of neo-fascists in Ukraine after the Maidan toppling of Yanukovych but at the time the Guardian was fairly relentlessly pro-EuroMaidan and very gung-ho for the revolution. That now seems to be changing sonewhat.
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Roll on the full Nazi takeover of Kiev, then we can see the true nature of the vile regime we have been backing.
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after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views,
So the penny finally drops. Well it's only taken 6 months from what was happening during the putsch in Kiev to reveal the type of political pondlife which has been conducting a racially motivated war against the Don Bass people in the east. It seem though the using the coy N-word (Nazi) is a step too far for the Guran. Let these gentlemen speak for themselves therefore.
Led by the battalion's leader Biletsky calls for the expansion of Ukraine, the"struggle for the liberation of the entire White Race," and seeks to "punish severely sexual perversions and any interracial contacts'. The Azov men use the symbol that resembles Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner, and some members of the battalion are open white supremacists, or anti-Semites.[15] The battalion commander Biletsky wrote that the historic mission of Ukrainian nation "is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” A former member of the battalion also claims that only men with National Socialist views may join.
But hey, they're on 'our' side so let's waive any objections here. Well their presence convinces me that 'our' side, is the wrong side.
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