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Backbone of the Army

March 15, 2022 by an article translated from JungeWelt — an interview with Dmitri Kovalevich, a Ukrainian journalist and a member of the Ukrainian Marxist organization Borotba.

Fascists gain more and more ground in Ukraine, West willingly supplies weapons.

Neo-Nazis played a decisive role during the 2013/2014 “Euromaidan” in Ukraine. After that, they assumed a number of leadership positions in all spheres of the Ukrainian state apparatus; their paramilitary armed formations were legalized and incorporated into the National Guard, the police and the regular army. The neo-Nazi Azov-regiment was also given the field of educating (indoctrinating) children and young people who were brainwashed for eight consecutive years in special training camps. There is a perfectly balanced synergy between president Zelenskyy and the fascist and nazi paramilitary organizations batallions.

During all these years, only Ukraine and the United States voted annually in the United Nations against this FN resolution on condemning and stopping glorification of Nazism, which already says a lot. Gradually, the state apparatus merged with several openly neo-Nazi paramilitary battalions, units/organizations, and groups. The ideology of the ultra-right became the state ideology, their symbols became official state symbols. The slogan of the Nazi collaborators, “Glory to Ukraine,” has become an official greeting in the army, and even liberal European politicians do not hesitate to repeat it.

The leader of the neo-Nazi group “C 14,” Yevgeny Karas, said at a press conference in Kiev on February 23, the eve of Russia’s operation, that a number of countries had provided a large amount of military support “not because they want us to benefit from it,” but because the state was “performing the tasks of the West.” He continued, “We are the only ones who are willing to perform these tasks because we have fun - we like to kill, and we enjoy fighting.”

Not surprisingly, since the beginning of the Russian operation, the neo-Nazis and the extreme right have offered the most stubborn resistance. Denazification is directed specifically against them, but they try to present their cause as the cause of the entire Ukrainian people, as the cause ofl all. Europe, which they are supposedly protecting from the “Asian hordes.” For the past eight years, the Western media have tried to timidly criticize neo-Nazi units such as “Azov”, “Free Corps”, “Right Sector”, “Misanthropic Division”, “C 14”, “Kharkiv-1” and “Kharkiv-2” , “Aidar Battalion”, “Dnipro-1” and “Dnipro-2”, “Kyiv-1” and “Kyiv-2”, “Tornado Batallion” (released from jail), “Wotan Jugens” (Ukrainan unit), but since late February they have become quite acceptable defenders of Ukraine (most notable the “Azov” regiment.

The neo-Nazis of “Azov” are the most motivated forces, and they were, as far as my knowledge goes, the first to receive Western weapons. The US media also freely reports that they supply “Azov”.

On March 3, Ukraine’s ‘Northern’ Operations Command published photos of troops being instructed in the the use of NLAW and Javelin anti-tank weapons. Since then, more such images have been published by the “Azov National Guard” battalion, the U.S. portal Overt Defense wrote on March 8.

In addition to the regular army units, “territorial defense detachments” were formed from the civilian population at the end of February, which immediately received the nickname “Volkssturm” in Ukraine. These units are led by representatives of extreme right-wing groups who have undergone training or have experience of military action in the Donbass. Regularly have to pass their checkpoints, which are established at every intersection. The fighters of the “Territorial Defense” appear quite arrogant even to representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. They do not allow men between the ages of 18 and 60 to leave the region. Refugees fleeing the war zones are often forced to take a “language test” on their Ukrainian language skills. Those who fail the test are either not allowed through or are subjected to a humiliating check where they have to undress in the cold, with many being forcefully taped onto poles, lamp posts, trees, et cetera. They take a particularly harsh attitude toward people from Asian and African countries who try to leave the country.

The “Territorial Defense” as well as military personnel like to show the insignia of the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf”, the Nazi symbol “Black Sun”, which even got into congratulatory NATO tweets to fighting Ukrainian women on March 8. Of course, not all soldiers of the army or members of the “territorial defense” are supporters of neo-Nazi views. However, they are all to one degree or another under the leadership and control of the extreme right-wing forces that form the backbone of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Pictured: Members of the “Azov National Corps” celebrate the second anniversary of their establishment in Kiev without any problems (2.3.2019).”

Text from here: https://telegra.ph/Backbone-of-the-Army-03-15