U.S. Support of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Since 2013 the US has supported the Azov Battalion, the Right Sector, Svoboda and other neo-Nazi sympathizing elements of the Ukrainian government and armed forces who are fighting Russia today, and have been waging war against secessionists in the Donbass for almost 10 years.
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The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion
For seven years, Western institutions have warned about Ukraine’s Azov Movement, which began as a neo-Nazi paramilitary group in 2014 and became notorious for its worldwide recruitment of extremists.
Then came Russia’s invasion. Within months, Azov fighters were being feted in Congress and at Stanford University. MSNBC swooned over a Ukrainian soldier whose Twitter account overflowed with neo-Nazi images. Facebook made the stunning decision to allow posts praising the Azov Battalion, even though the company admitted that it was a hate group.
The Indepenent UK: Nationalists not extremists: Pravy Sektor deny radicalism claims and say they want to ‘serve’ Ukraine
Pravy Sektor was initially formed as a confederation of radical nationalist groups. Some of these, including one called White Hammer, were expelled. Others, like Patriot of Ukraine, the paramilitary wing of the country’s Social-National Assembly, left the group after it supposedly watered down its militancy.
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