“And now the presidential brigade,” said Dutchak. In fact, the YKMS has been training soldiers from the Presidential Brigade of Ukraine since last year. “We are trying to raise her in the traditions of Azov,” according to Nyzytski, who said that training this unit is like raising “our most difficult child,” but “the best in the plan, we cherish her more than anything.”
There are some signs of far-right infiltration of this brigade, which is tasked with defending the president and his family. For example, the OUN-M, the oldest faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, has a “UVO” platoon in the presidential brigade, named after the pre-OUN terrorist group led by Yevhen Konovalets. “Russians, get ready, everything will be Azov,” Dutchak said to the camera. “One hundred percent gentle Azovization,” Nyzytski said, smiling at Dutchak.
A couple of questionable units from the presidential brigade. The emblem of the 20th battalion uses the red-and-black flag of the far-right “Banderite” movement (OUN-UPA). The emblem of 21st battalion (top-right) has a “bouche shield” in the style of the [...] Waffen-SS (bottom-right).In December 2023, the state-run National News Agency of Ukraine, or Ukrinform, launched a project on its Youtube channel with the Center for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. The series consisted of interviews with people from the military. Rostylsav Nyzytskyi was one of the first guests. He predicted with 100% certainty that “we will bring a new order to the European world,” and suggested that Ukraine’s special forces will become NATO’s hired guns in other conflicts around the world.
The question here is whether we will survive, but the moment we do, we will bring a new order. We will be dominant, we will be in demand for everything. There will be war in the future, it will just be on the African continent or something else. It will go there because Russia and China are now dominating there, and for Europe and the United States … it’s economics, it’s prestige, you have to dominate the regions… Make PMC [private military companies] and go to Africa, to Turkey to slaughter Muscovites. I don’t think we will get a specific resource there, it’s just a tool of influence.
Rostyslav Nyzytskyi […]“Do you have any idea when the war might end?” one of the hosts asked. Rostylsav Nyzytskyi hoped for it to last another two years, because “we need it” to complete the process of transforming Ukraine’s military. That was almost one year ago. Asked how he felt about freezing the conflict, Nyzytskyi said, “It is a defeat. Let there be such a phase, but in my opinion, we at least need a year and a half or two.” In the meantime, 18–20 year olds should join the fight, as he did at that age.
“MacTavish,” one of the top YKMS instructors in the 3rd Assault Brigade, has expressed interest in Dominique Venner (1935–2013), a veteran of the far-right “Secret Army Organization” in France, who founded the white nationalist “Europe-Action” movement. This suggests that the YKMS is still plugged into Azov’s “Reconquista” agenda. About a month ago, “MacTavish” posted something about the challenges of being a military instructor.
This is not an easy job and I will explain why: It’s a huge workload (yes, you won’t be killed at the training ground and you won’t be hunted by FPV [drones]), but in one course of the BZVP [Basic General Military Training], about a thousand recruits will go through your training and you burn out from this monotonous work. You work almost 24/7 because you live the life of a recruit every day, you are with them all the time. You also burn out from the low motivation of people who are now joining the army. You train men who were forcibly taken into the army, guys who tried to cross the Tisza [river], but were caught and sent to the army, you train people who are weak in spirit and body, you see it all the time. And then you send these people to the army and realize that they will go to fight on the frontlines, and you are still waiting for a new batch of recruits to come to the training units.
As Rostylsav Nyzytskyi said last year, “Everything depends on us, whether we can turn [esirs] into janissaries.” Far from being noble protectors of the nation, the Azovites would gladly enslave their “unconscious” compatriots in a totalitarian society, if given the chance.
Last month, the Khorunza service of the 3rd Assault Brigade held a roundtable on military reforms, in particular “cleansing it of the Soviet legacy.” They announced the participation of several military units and directorates, as well as a “NATO country colonel,” and the National Defense University of Ukraine. Several weeks earlier, Vladyslav Dutchak brokered an agreement between the Khorunza Service of the NGU Azov Brigade and the mayor of Kostopil, a small city in western Ukraine, for “strengthening patriotic education for children and young people.”
According to Rostyslav Nyzytskyi’s December 2023 estimate, at least another year of “gentle Azovization” is apparently needed before Ukraine’s most powerful neo-Nazis can fully cash in on a frozen conflict.
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1937: The Imperial Japanese Army combined the Shanghai Expeditionary Force and the Japanese 10th Army to form the new Central China Area Army.
1938: The Fascists organized the Milizia Artiglieria Contraerea: anti‐aircraft and coastal artillery militia units, and coincidentally the Reich accepted Hans‐Joachim Marseille into flight training and gave him the rank of Flieger. Meanwhile in Paris, Herschel Grynszpan (a French Jew whose parents were recently expelled from Germany into Poland) murdered Fascist consular aide Ernst Vom Rath.
1939: The Belgian and Dutch Crowns stated their neutrality and offered to act as negotiators for peace, which Berlin, Paris, and London rejected. Coincidentally, Berlin postponed the decision for the western invasion (the next date of decision was to be November 9, 1939) while Hermann Göring met with Yankee journalists at the Soviet embassy in Berlin, mocking the quality and quantity of the U.S.‐built aircraft that would soon arrive in Britain. Finally, Blohm und Voss prematurely launched Herbert Norkus in Hamburg to make way for submarine construction around the same time that a double agent in Britain passed Fascist plans for the Western Offensive to the Czechoslovakian government‐in‐exile.
1940: Vichy passed a law concerning how skiing should be taught, signifying the importance of sports in the new French education philosophy.
1941: During or around the time that the Empire of Japan’s Navy conducted a carrier exercise, the Allied merchant ship Nottingham, on her maiden voyage, spotted Axis submarine U‐74 in the North Atlantic and attempted to ram her, but U‐74 counterattacked at 2234 hours and sunk Nottingham. All sixty‐two aboard escaped in lifeboats, but they were never seen again. Close to this time, one hundred sixty RAF bombers assaulted Berlin and shot down twenty bombers, but the Germans reported minimal damage. Lastly, Emden arrived at Gotenhafen (a.k.a. Gdynia), Axis‐occupied Poland and disembarked Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. Lastly, the Axis sunk the Soviet ship Armenia massacring thousands of innocents.
1942: A transport of 465 Jews arrived at Auschwitz from the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands. During the selection all of them were said to be unable to work, thus the Axis annihilated all of them. Additionally, Axis General Antoine Béthouart unsuccessfully attempted a coup d'etat in North Africa, thereby alarming defenses.
1943: Alfred Jodl met with NSDAP Gauleiters in Munich; he noted that the Allied terror raids on Axis cities must be stopped, otherwise the morale of the German folk would be overly damaged, and it would be fertile grounds for subversive activities.
1944: Axis captors hung Soviet spy Richard Sorge and thirty‐four of his associates.
Creeping? It's been deeply entrenched for at least 80-something years.
👆 History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
By "👆" do you mean you're agreeing with the comment above?
Because the links you posted paint a comletely different picture: Ukrainian fascism was created outside Ukraine, sponsored from outside Ukraine, and apart from the brief period of Nazi occupation, it was absolutely not "deeply entrenched" in Ukraine which was a Soviet republic where Nazi collaborators got what they deserved.
From the first part:
Part 2 discusses WW2. Obviously Nazi collaborators were in power during the Nazi occupation, this is true everywhere Nazis occupied territory, from Western Europe to Belarus and Russia.
Most of Part 3 is about the post-war fighting between UPA bandits and the Red Army. Suffice to say by the early 50s the Red Army has eradicated Banderites in Ukraine.
Which is exactly why Part 4 is called "The Global OUN Network in Exile, 1962-1992" - Ukrainian fascism has only survived in exile, and only thanks to intense funding by CIA and the like.
This is the opposite of fascism being "deeply entrenched" anywhere in the USSR during it's existence.
Fascism was created in the Western Europe, it was used to decimate Ukraine, Belarus, and European parts of Russia during WW2, and after those parts of the USSR were liberated it was nurtured in the West during the cold war to be forcibly transplanted back to post-Soviet states after the fall of the USSR.
Look, the fascist Kuomintang exists in Taiwan. Imagine USA manages to topple the CPC and put Kuomintang in power, would you say "fascism has been deeply entrenched in China for the past 75 years"?
Fascism by its very nature is always an Astroturfed movement. And given the fact that we're talking about a former Soviet republic - it had to be forcefully pushed into the country, with billions of dollars pouring from the Empire's coffers.
I wouldn't quite put it like that - reactionary movements existed prior to Mussolini and Hitler - the particular form that was eventually coined as "fascism" was, though. UNR, I would say, were also reactionaries, so were the Whites etc. The point stands -Banderism is undoubtedly a vile child of the West.
This comment is spot on, though. Couldn't agree more.
Thank you comrade!
I didn’t catch the “in the USSR” part. It was entrenched on the other side of the Iron Curtain, with great effort from the US military-intelligence-industrial complex. Gabriel Rockhill: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
The title implies its been creeping into the modern Ukrainian army, which only existed for 33-something years. The "80 years" part may only be applicable to the outside world. It's mixed up a bit here.
100% agree with you there!
To me this reads as "fascism has been entrenched in Ukraine since WW2", I didn't realise they meant the West.