Basically, the group that is the target of the FSB arrests is called MANIACS, THE CULT OF KILLERS, and it was founded by certain Egor Krasnov, native of Dnipro, Ukraine. This young gentleman apparently attended several Azov battalion summer camps as a youth, and had violent proclivities. Eventually, he found joy in the killing of the homeless, alcoholics, junkies etc. However, he also shared his exploits with likeminded individuals online, on Telegram and on Dark Net, and enticed them to do the same and record their deeds on camera to be shared by the community. He was able to build a considerable following throughout the CIS.
Krasnov was an adherent of the white supremacists ideology, which he likely apprehended in the Azov camp but he himself said the Azov was too mainstream for his tastes. He harboured hatred towards those that were darker than is the usual Ukrainian phenotype. It is said he has assaulted an Iranian student with a knife, which alerted the authorities to his activities and he was taken under arrest.
EGOR KRASNOV “Our goal is a racially pure state”
After his arrest, the content of his social media properties change a bit. While under Krasnov’s management the main topic revolved around killings of lowlives and filming it, the content after his arrest contains instructions on how to make bombs, commit arson, and what is more interesting anti-government rhetoric, and the necessity to kill cops. Reports have it, the group arrested in Voronezh were also part of local pro-Navalny groups and gave instructions on how to behave during protests, especially how to fight the police.
Sieg Heiling Nazis at Navalny protest
It seems that the SBU (Ukrainian secret service) has captured Krasnov’s social media accounts and was managing them, or alternatively curated Krasnov’s activity.
I am glad there are people in my country, who know the truth. I have discovered a wonderful text on a Czech blog of which I provide a translation:
At a time when our country is in the grips of an affair that will write itself into the annals of Czech history as the provocation of Vrbětice, it is easy to overlook an anniversary of the massacre of Odessa, which shook the civilised World seven years ago. Amazingly, in the same year when the foundations of the current (Czech) theatre were laid.
Let us make a summary of the facts. It is May 2014, in Odessa on the Kulikovo pole, in front of the House of the Trade Unions, there is a tent city, where the people are protesting in favour of federalisation of Ukraine. They are unsure that Kiev’s policy accords with their idea of living with the Russians. Simultaneously, just by chance, there is a football match held in the city, which was attended by a horde of scum, just like everywhere in the World. (my note: in fact, the neonazi scum was drawn into the city over several weeks and this was just a reinforcement). To mix provocateurs into such a crowd was not hard. And at this moment there begins a False Flag Operation, which already went so well in Kiev (my note: the author means the still unexplained shootings at late Maidan). Some commando with St. George’s Ribbons begins to shoot at the crowd and the first people fall dead that evening. The mob is livid and a clash soon begins. Suddenly, St. George’s Ribbons disappear and a commando with Yellow & Blue Ribbons appears. Some mean people say that the attackers just changed the ribbons but that is just a speculations. The fact is that the St. George’s Ribbons suddenly disappeared.
After the sudden disappearance of the commando, the mob overwhelmed its opponents and drove them to Kulikovo Pole, where the supporters of federalisation had their camp. The enraged mob chased all the Moskals (the pejorative name used for Ukrainian Russians, my note: actually all Russians) and a massacre that we cannot well imagine in our civilised age began. I am not a sadist, however, anyone interested can find photos and testimonies that will make your stomach churn. Although this material is heavily censored. I will forever remember an image of a pregnant woman with a spread out legs on a table. I do not even want to imagine what she must have suffered before she died. In the building there were many people with a burned upper part of the body, it suggests they were set alight and suffocated from the fumes. Reports of rape and lynching have leaked out into the public soon after. Several tens of people have died.
Kiev brushed everything under a rug. Not paying attention to the fact of burned corpses, they said the victims died because of few molotov cocktails thrown into the windows. No mention of murders, rape, setting people alight and beating those that jumped out of the windows to death. Even Czech Television, the media that cares so much about Navalny does not want to investigate this. As if nothing happened. Therefore, we can just watch how the Kiev government does not want to prosecute the perpetrators of this mass murder, and simultaneously, the witnesses are mysteriously disappearing. At the same time, we are witnessing the worship of the war criminal Bandera, celebrations of the liberation of Ukraine by the Wehrmacht and other historical manipulations that would disgust any normal man. All this is accompanied by cheerful moaning of the media in presumably democratic countries that did not notice the massacre of Odessa but they are fervently feeding the plebs with a fairy tale about clumsy Russian agents.
Ukraine is the future battlefield between Russia and the West. Many young Ukrainians do not want to become cannon fodder and leave the country in droves in hope they will return one day when peace reigns. We can only hope that the plans of the jarheads only stay at yapping over the fence. I just do not believe that while we are yapping, we should so categorically adopt the viewpoint of this or that side. Because sometimes it so happens that the small dogs get sacrificed when two big dogs are fighting. As if we (Czechs) do not have experience of this. It is a shame that we are not behaving more like the Austrians. Ok, a bankrupt Westinghouse will build the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant, and we can close the factories that export to Russia if our big brother wills it. However, nobody can convince that the West is out in pursuit of truth and love. (my note: a slogan of Václav Havel used sarcastically for the woke segment of the Czech public, who are also the main critics of Russia). The business here is about resources and money.
If the West really wanted justice, this massacre would be investigated as an act of genocide.
PS: Tomorrow, the National Corps, the civilian wing of the neonazi Azov battalion will hold a march celebrating the massacre in Odessa.
Guess what dear viewers, Facebook censored people who shared a photo of a man throwing a sieg heil at a neonazi demonstration held several days ago in Kiev, featured in this post, so says Anatoly Shariy…
I don’t have any reason to disbelieve Anatoly because, as was mentioned on this blog, neonazis moderate Facebook in Ukraine. Imagine I would still have a profile on Facebook and I would share my posts from this blog? It wouldn’t be safe, and I could be blocked. The people that shared this photo thought the public deserves to know but that I guess that goes against community standards. And I will add that this multi billion company is morally bankrupt, and you are better off not using it.
Nazis in Kiev have staged a commemoration of the founding of the SS Halychyna, a volunteer force of the Waffen SS, the 14th Brigadier Division recruited from the inhabitants of the Distrikt Galizien, that is Western Ukraine, in 1943. It was a collaborationist force used mostly to fight anti-Nazi partisans across East-Central Europe. Kiev has not seen any marches commemorating this unit of Waffen SS but it has been the scene of commemoration of another West Ukrainian nationalist icon, Stepan Bandera for many years.
The march has created a lot of controversy, and was condemned not only by the usual adherents of the Soviet Ukrainian narrative but also by people that generally make apologetics for Ukrainian nationalists, such as the historian, Volodymyr Vyatrovych. The attendance was rather low:
But knowing how this works, this is but testing the waters. Prepare for a show of force next time…
Number of dodgy characters have joined the march…
This one is sieg heiling…
Cossack larpers remind me of the Italian fashioner designer, Franco Moschino for some reason…
The neonazi leader Evhen Karas’ made these curios invitations…
From time to time you might see a Western commentator say that Ukraine does not have a Nazi problem because… fill in your lame reason… Usually they say that explicitly nationalist parties do not score significant electoral victories. That is partially true but when Svoboda was propped up financially under Yanukovych, they actually got seats in the Rada (the national parliament of Ukraine). The whole argument falls apart when you consider that the big oligarch supported parties in Ukraine that form the Rada now have pretty much adopted the nationalist program that consists of forcible Ukrainization, attack on canonical links between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Churches, rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators, and the demonisation of the Soviet past, and overall Russophobia.
Another argument that I have heard from Anton Shekhovtsov, an NGO worker that focuses on far right movements, is that the Nazis of the Azov battalion are not really a problem because they are under the control of the Ministry of Interior. Recently, I have watched Anatoly Shariy on the Vladimir Slovyov’s podcast, and he said: “Who cares if the Neonazis get low scores in elections, they have guns.” Well, they literally have tanks. My take on this has been that the West keeps a blind eye on Nazis in Ukraine because:
Neonazis mean Western policies towards Ukraine may be discredited in the eyes of the Western public and therefore denial, half truths, and accusations of Russian disinformation.
Ukraine has become something similar to Afghanistan in the eighties. There, Islamic fanatics were mobilised to fight the Soviets, and here Neonazis are mobilised to fight the Russian cultural element in Ukraine, the separatists in the East if not directly the Russian Federation.
Neonazis were instrumental in the victory of the Maidan and radical nationalism is used to repress pro-Russian people, and the Russian cultural element in Ukraine. I do not think the Azov Nazis would last against a Russian military but should the Russians intervene in Ukraine on behalf of the separatists, the West is going to enact sanctions and embargoes. Hence we have a situation where Nazis shell villages in Eastern Ukraine and it makes Russia look bad.
The other day, an interview with a former journalist of RFE/RL, Alexander Orlov for RT came to my attention, particularly because of this passage.
I translate: “There was a story from Ukraine. A story about a youth camp run by the battalion “Azov”, where children with the Wolfsangel rune on their jackets are playing war games. I have made a trailer with the title “From the heart to the Sun. A Neonazi camp youth camp was opened near Kiev.” Everyone was unhappy with it, and the Ukrainian section demanded I be sacked. (To their credit, a number of Western publications reported on the Azov Neonazi summer camp, although I believe the story of Neonazis in Ukraine deserves more attention than it gets)
“You are wrong, you are wrong” – Said [my] colleague Michael, the vice president actually, “Ukraine needs a little bit of this “national socialism” to win.”
One only wonders what they are winning by supporting a bunch of Hitler worshipers? We see a case of presenting American interests, which is to cause problems for Russia, as the interests of the Ukrainian people. But the opposite is the case, enmity with Russia is actually a detriment to the entire region, and it is in the interest of Eastern Europe to shed this enmity and mute the agents of American influence.
As for the brand of “national socialism”, this is basically the violent street culture of the Neonazis, which is not something you want to cultivate in your society. Ukraine has seen the murders of ordinary citizens by Neonazi thugs in recent years, in drunken street brawls, because since they have gained social acceptance, they have become much too bold and now prey on Ukrainian normies. There is some indication that the Ukrainian secret service is making attempts to spread this vile ideology among the youths of Russia but the FSB works rather well at countering it.
PS: Another interesting moment in the Alexander Orlov interview is where he tells that he was chastised for calling members of the Al Qaeda in Syria “terrorists”. Clearly, US is pimping and giving information cover to radical Muslims in Syria, and here you have an answer to why Russia is involved there. These terrorists employed against Assad’s regime will next be employed against Russia and their allies. A similar situation is with Ukraine and sooner or later Russia will be militarily involved there too.
This is what the door to the office of the president on Bankovaya street in central Kiev looks like now…
The neonazis have protested the jailing of a neonazi thug, Sternenko. But I am rather worried about a regime that allows the mob to vandalize seats of authority like this. The response of Murica to a rampaging mob was to call in the military to Washington DC.
However, a report about them in the Russian media was censored by Facebook because it said the radicals had links to Ukraine. They were basing this claim on information provided by an insider in the security forces. Facebook has blocked the Russian media report after an analysis done by their Ukrainian fact checkers, the Stop Fake group. I have already featured them on this blog once. Their integrity is impeccable.
The Stop Fake argues that in the official press release of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, there isn’t anything said about Ukrainian affiliation of the arrested, and that they were all Russian citizens. This however does not mean anything. It has to be noted that following the Maidan and the outbreak of military conflict in the Donbass, many Russian Neonazis, literal Hitler worshipers, went to exile to Ukraine because over there they can practice their love for Hitler without repercussions.
I have recently found, for instance, this Neonazi Black Metal group which migrated from Tver, Russia to Ukraine. They recently held a concert in Kiev.
Many of these types have served in Ukraine’s armed forces and they have veteran organizations. My knowledge about them only scratches the surfaces, the topic of Russian neonazis in Ukraine’s forces is a topic for a separate discussion.
But bottom line is that there aren’t just links between Ukrainian and Russian neonazis and an existence of a neonazi group in Russia with contacts in Ukraine is not something implausible.
Links of Stop Fake to Neonazis
Recently, the Ukrainian Soros funded publication Zaborana mentioned some cozy relationships between representatives of Stop Fake and radical nationalists:
One month earlier on June 2nd, Zaborona’s official Facebook page shared a publication about Denis Nikitin, a key figure among European ultra-right radicals, which the social network then blocked 18 hours later. Soon after, Facebook explained that the post was removed by mistake (assumingly, due to a photograph illustrating the material, in which a Ukrainian man wrapped in a swastika flag throws his hand in the Nazi salute) and reinstated it the next day. Zaborona decided to follow up on the incident and later released the material discussing alleged links of the fact-checking project StopFake to Ukrainian far-right and neo-Nazi organisations. Zaborona journalists explained their interest by the fact that after the removal of the Facebook post, some readers recommended to search for possible motives of the new fact-checking partner of Facebook in Ukraine– StopFake.org. On March 27th, Facebook indeed confirmed its partnership with StopFake and VoxUkraine to increase its fact-checking capacities on social network pages in Ukraine.
Zaborona eventually released material that first focused on Yevhen Fedchenko – the co-founder and chief editor for StopFake and director of the Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. It pointed out Fedchenko’s habit of taking political stances, speaking against freedom of the press and on one occasion even whitewashing the reputation of a Ukrainian far-right group C14 (Sich), Ukraine’s controversial group of far-right radicals, by singling out one of its members as his respected colleague. Fedchenko has also been accused of taking the side of Myrotvorets, or Peacemaker, a Ukrainian nationalist website that in 2016 doxed the personal data of more than 5,000 Ukrainian and foreign reporters with press passes issued by the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, labeling them “terrorist collaborators”. A closer look, however, reveals that Zaborona’s allegations seem to be taken out of context and might conceal more complex motives in explaining such statements.
Later the Zaborona report moves on to Marko Suprun, “the main face of StopFake” and the person in charge of the English-language StopFakeNews project on YouTube. According to Zaborona’s findings, Suprun has often been spotted in the company of Ukraine’s infamous far-right figures, notably Arseniy Bilodub, the founder of the far-right clothing brand SvasStone and the leader of the hatecore band Sokyra Peruna, and Andriy Sereda, the frontman of another controversial rock band Komu Vnyz. The material refers to photographs of Suprun spotted together with both Bilodub and Sereda, as well as other Ukraine’s far-right radicals, and cites the opinions of experts, who point out that StopFake has become “too politicised,” and that Marko Suprun’s friendship with the extreme right may affect the organisation’s image.
Yevhen Fedchenko blocked me on Twitter after I shared information on Jakub Janda to him. Marko Suprun is the husband of the Ukrainian-American, former Minister of Health of Ukraine, Ulyana Suprun. I am not surprised a Ukrainian-American would hang out with neonazis since many of them are descended from fugitive Nazi collaborators, who were given shelter by the CIA as useful assets in the fight against the Soviet Union. It is without question that having not undergone any denazification, these people still adhere to radical nationalist ideals.
Yesterday, a notorious neonazi activist in Odessa, Serhiy Sternenko was found guilty of abduction of a person, torture and illegal possession of arms. Sternenko is also accused of murder of a man but he claims it was in self defense. The man has a history of affiliation with far right groups and of violent behaviour. Nevertheless, for some reason he was defended by the head of the International Renaissance Fund, a Soros funded outfit in Ukraine, Olexandr Sushko…
Sushko asked whether it is possible to enact sanctions against Ukrainian courts for jailing Sternenko. On Facebook, he took to calling the verdict a threat to national security…
I have found this video featuring Anatoly Shariy and Vladimir Chemeris, and saw it has been given English subtitles. It explains a lot of thing that I tend to mention here on this blog…
The reason I stopped using Twitter and Facebook is because of wanton censorship. A variety of blockages, shadow bans, termination of accounts is being deployed against a vast variety of people for an incredible range of transgressions. Sometimes you don’t even know what caused the ban you received. There is illegal content that should absolutely be removed from websites but most people are not sanctioned for any of that. And really, the correct answer, the minute you receive a ban is to stop using that site. There is Telegram, and everyone is posting there…
Now sometimes, the social media engage in a strange obstruction of content. Eduard Dolinsky is the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee and regularly posts information regarding the rampant rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. This is what his Twitter page looks like when you load it…
So, apparently, brining attention to monuments to Nazis is including sensitive content. Look at the way the profile is hidden from view, as if it was deleted. This is a form of censorship as there isn’t a valid reason to hide his profile and its contents.
And his posts are equally hidden…
There is an option to change settings but I will not register to Twitter again.
