Tag: Azov movement

Flash : Ukrainian Nazi organization Azov is openly recruiting in France

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ukrainian Azov organization has already enrolled foreigners since 2014. As an example and according to reliable sources, French Nazi militant Karel Cherel Salzburg joined the formation in 2018, through Bastion social, a supremacist group in Lyon, then Gaston Besson (link in French), a French war criminal during the civil war in former Yugoslavia, who was then operating as recruiter in Switzerland

Flash : Ukrainian Nazi organization Azov is openly recruiting in France

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LCI gives the floor to a French neo-Nazi mercenary fighting for Ukraine – Donbass Insider (Karel Cherel-Salzburg)

M-TAC: Nazis “R” Us

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Previously on “Ukes, Kooks & Spooks,” we peeked at the far-right underbelly of M-TAC, Ukraine’s “largest and most powerful brand of clothing and equipment in the tactical and military industry,” that became central to Volodymyr Zelensky’s “de facto uniform” after Russia invaded Ukraine. But “Zelensky branded by fascists?” just scratched the surface.

M-TAC: Nazis “R” Us (archived)

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Azov Recruitment Ad Sponsored by the US

Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments

NaziGate highlights Canadian ties to far-right Ukrainian nationalism, support for NATO and a long history of conflict with Russia. It should also shine a light on a foreign policy entangled with fascistic groups in many places. But politicians and media, as well as many on the left, have minimized the most salient points of NaziGate.

Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback

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Canada: Neo-Nazis, white nationalists go on pilgrimage to Galicia Waffen-SS memorial

When Even The Nazis Aren’t Nazis

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In what Matt Taibbi has described as “the worst op-ed in history”, Politico Europe has published an astonishing article titled “Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi”, which defends the scandal of the Canadian parliament applauding a literal SS Nazi veteran as a “complicated” issue that is being exploited by “propagandists”.

When Even The Nazis Aren’t Nazis

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[07-2023] Zelensky showing ‘authoritarian traits’, says Swiss intelligence report

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ukraine is at a “critical point” in its democratic evolution as it heads towards presidential elections in 2024, says a confidential assessment by the Federal Intelligence Service.

Zelensky showing ‘authoritarian traits’, says Swiss intelligence report (archived)

H/T: Emil Cosman / Rand Paul

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[2021] Ukraine’s Accelerating Slide into Authoritarianism

The Maidan Revolution alumni now seem to be trying to devour even some of their own members. In mid‐May, Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko charged agents of the SBU, Ukraine’s state security agency, had come to his apartment in what he denounced as a continuing attempt by his political rival, Zelensky, to put pressure on him. Earlier in May, the SBU, the state prosecutor’s office, and police carried out large‐scale searches of various units of the Kiev city government, accusing the local authorities of misappropriation of budget funds and tax evasion, among other offenses. Although Klitschko was one of the original leaders of the Maidan demonstrations, Zelensky apparently now regards him as an annoying rival, since the Kiev mayor was a close ally of former president Poroshenko.

[2021] KIIS poll: Every fifth Ukrainian ready to vote for Zelensky in presidential elections

If presidential elections were held soon, incumbent head of state Volodymyr Zelensky would receive about 21.8% of the vote, according to the results of a sociological survey “Social and Political Sentiments of Ukraine” conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).