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COMMENT: In numerous programs, we have noted international networking between the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and elements around the world:
- Azov is part of the “Intermarium Revival” that is seen as using Nazification of the Ukraine “pivot point” as a springboard for a global Nazi takeover.
- American Nazis and white supremacists are among the elements networking with Azov and then “bringing it all back home” to their native lands.
- Azov Battalion and Pravy Sektor (“Right Sector”) elements have decamped to Hong Kong, networking with the so-called “Pro-Democracy” forces and working on behalf of EU NGOs.
Azov’s Hong Kong compatriots have adopted the OUN/B slogan, now the official salute of the Ukrainian police and military. ” . . . . The interest has been mutual, with Hong Kong’s ‘democrats’ drawing inspiration from Ukraine’s pro-Western Euromaidan ‘revolution’ that has empowered far-right, fascistic forces. Hong Kong protesters have embraced the slogan ‘Glory to Hong Kong’, adapted from ‘Slava Ukrayini’ or ‘Glory to Ukraine’, a slogan invented by Ukrainian fascists and used by Nazi collaborators during WWII that was re-popularized by the Euromaidan movement. . . . ”
Joshua Wong–“boy wonder” and darling of the American MSM–has doubled down on affinity with Ukraine: ” . . . . ‘No matter the differences between Ukraine and Hong Kong, our fights for freedom and democracy are the same,’ Joshua Wong told The Kyiv Post in 2019. ‘[W]e have to learn from Ukrainians… and show solidarity. Ukraine confronted the force of Russia — we are facing the force of Beijing.’ . . . .”
In Brazil, as well, the “Azov Foreign Legion” has made its presence felt. Both Pravy Sektor and Azov have established resonance with Jair Bolsonaro’s forces in Brazil.
According to Brazil Wire: “Sound truck at a minor protest in São Paulo today flew the flag of Ukrainian Neonazis “Right Sector”. Members of the Brazilian extreme-right have been trained in Ukraine, as reported by the @FT in January 2017. https://t.co/RXkigSOSba pic.twitter.com/zWyWtvTOsQ— Brasil Wire (@BrasilWire) May 24, 2020.”
Azov appears to have influence in Brazil, as well, allegedly having recruited fighters from that country: ” . . . . The country’s simmering neo-Nazi movement, with its secret world of swastikas, hate propaganda and street violence, was being recruited by rightwing extremists in Ukraine to fight against pro-Russian rebels in the European country’s civil war. Ukraine’s Misanthropic Division, an extreme right group aligned with the Azov Battalion, an ultranationalist paramilitary group aligned with Kiev, was behind the recruitment drive, Mr Jardim, Brazil’s foremost neo-Nazi hunter, alleged. . . .”
. . . . In recent days, the Black Lives Matter movement has been terrorized by white vigilante groups. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s “pro-democracy” protests have served as a magnet for the U.S. and European far-right supporters. The ultra-right pilgrimages to Hong Kong have included numerous American white nationalists and Ukrainian neo-Nazis who previously fought in the fascist paramilitary group, Azov Battalion.
The interest has been mutual, with Hong Kong’s “democrats” drawing inspiration from Ukraine’s pro-Western Euromaidan “revolution” that has empowered far-right, fascistic forces. Hong Kong protesters have embraced the slogan “Glory to Hong Kong”, adapted from “Slava Ukrayini” or “Glory to Ukraine”, a slogan invented by Ukrainian fascists and used by Nazi collaborators during WWII that was re-popularized by the Euromaidan movement.
“No matter the differences between Ukraine and Hong Kong, our fights for freedom and democracy are the same,” Joshua Wong told The Kyiv Post in 2019. “[W]e have to learn from Ukrainians… and show solidarity. Ukraine confronted the force of Russia — we are facing the force of Beijing.” . . . .
When Brazilian police investigator Paulo César Jardim launched a series of raids on the homes of alleged neo-Nazis in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, he unveiled a bizarre plot.
The country’s simmering neo-Nazi movement, with its secret world of swastikas, hate propaganda and street violence, was being recruited by rightwing extremists in Ukraine to fight against pro-Russian rebels in the European country’s civil war.
Ukraine’s Misanthropic Division, an extreme right group aligned with the Azov Battalion, an ultranationalist paramilitary group aligned with Kiev, was behind the recruitment drive, Mr Jardim, Brazil’s foremost neo-Nazi hunter, alleged.
One person was detained along with 47 9mm pistol shells in the December raids. He was later released. Police were still investigating whether any Brazilians had already joined the fighting in Ukraine, he said, declining to elaborate further on the probe. A spokesman for the Azov Battalion — now incorporated into the National Guard — said no Brazilians had fought for it.
“We became aware that someone had come from Europe…an Italian…had come to Brazil to recruit people for Ukraine,” Mr Jardim told the FT.
The revelation, if proven, that Brazil’s underground ultranationalist movements are seeking combat experience overseas is a worrying development in a phenomenon that has shocked a country that considers itself a racial melting pot.
The rise of neo-Nazis in Brazil has challenged a popular myth that racism, at least the overt variety on display in the US and other western countries, does not exist there. With more than half the population claiming at least some African heritage, Brazilians pride themselves on the relaxed relations between the country’s different racial groups. But there has been a steady stream of attacks in recent years. Just last year, neo-Nazis attacked a punk band that championed gay and equal rights with knives and tomahawks.
While the far-right is still regarded as the fringe of politics in a country that freed itself from two decades of military dictatorship only in the mid-1980s, ultra-conservative politicians and their supporters are keen to fill a political vacuum that has developed after the August impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff, analysts say.
Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman and former Brazilian army captain, grabbed headlines last year for praising a known torturer from the dictatorship era. Also last year, a group of ultraconservatives invaded Congress and unveiled banners calling for the return of military rule.
Mr Bolsonaro has denied he is a neo-Nazi but critics accuse him of sharing many of the movement’s views, such as racism and intolerance.
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The stronghold of neo-Nazism in Brazil is the country’s south and south-east, from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul, the regions that received the bulk of Brazil’s German, Italian and Polish immigrants.
While South America was also known for receiving Nazis fleeing from the defeat of Hitler’s Germany in the second world war, the neo-Nazi movements are unrelated to these individuals and mostly grew out of hate sites on the internet, experts say.
Brazil, with a population of 200m, has 150,000 “sympathisers” involved in neo-Nazi movements, according to a paper by anthropologist Andriana Dias of Unicamp, a university.
“The violence expressed by these groups, whether in physical attacks on blacks, Jews or homosexuals, or the dissemination of their hate literature…has in recent years demanded a lot of work…in terms of investigation and convictions,” she wrote.
One of the landmark cases occurred in Porto Alegre in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust when a group of neo-Nazis armed with knives attacked Jews commemorating the event, seriously injuring several of their victims.
In more recent cases, skinheads have targeted gays on Avenida Paulista, the main thoroughfare in São Paulo. In 2011, three skinheads were convicted for trying to kill four people, including a black person with a prosthetic limb, with clubs and knives.
Since the 2005 attack in Porto Alegre, police in Rio Grande do Sul had adopted a more preventive approach, arresting and questioning suspects before they could hatch their plots, Mr Jardim said. There had been up to 50 indictments over the past 15 years, he added.
This was the approach used in the Ukraine investigation — called Operation Azov after the alleged involvement of the eastern European paramilitary group.
Mr Jardim said that when he brought suspects in for questioning, as he did during Operation Azov, he often tried to convince them that their creed was out of place in a country whose heroes included World Cup footballers Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Romário — all of them black. But they rarely changed their minds.
“These are not common criminals or robbers, they have an ideology. They are people who believe in ethnic cleansing, in racial purity,” he said.
It’s interesting that Joe Leahy in the article refers to the Russian ethnics in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine as “rebels”. Sometimes people call them “separatists”. They’re neither. The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) was taken over in violation of Ukraine’s constitution in a bloody coup d’état. The current “government” of Ukraine is an illegal junta. The Russian ethnics who’d heard “give russkies the knife” from the same Banderovites for a long time, went through the legal motions of establishing regional councils by popular election so as to represent lawful governance under color of law in the part of Ukraine that they could defend with militias organized to defend their homes from their own neighborhoods. All of these Russian ethnics (and some Ukrainian-ethnic allies) had family members who were killed or maimed in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) against Axis fascism.
Using the Ukrainian Nationalists for terror plotting in foreign countries is not a new tactic for the Nazis. The Urainian Fascist movement has been used in terror plots by Germans and Japanese prior around the world. They supported a Cuban pro-Nazi group, the “Grey Shirts”. See Falange The Axis Secret Army in America by Allan Chase, G.P. Ptunam’s Sons, New York, 1943, page 84 which states:
“Golowchenko, who spoke Spanish with a heavy accent, arrived in Havana in I 940 to assume the leadership of Cuba’s Ukrainian Nazis. There were only two hundred Ukrainian Nazis in Havana but, as Michael Sayers and Albert Kahn revealed in their book, Sabotage, the Ukrainian Fascist movement has for many years been used by the Germans and the Japanese as a reservoir of terrorists all over the world. Havana’s two Hundred Ukrainian Nazis were all hard-bitten, veteran terrorists-ready to commit any act, including murder, at the command of their leaders.
All of the Axis groups in Cuba grew to know Golowchenko well. He had close relations with the Japanese and the Italians, but his particular job seems to have been as drill-master for the Gray Shirts and the Falange. He was a hard taskmaster on the drill fields, training his men in the methods approved by the Czar’s army in 1914 as well as in tricks he had learned from the Japanese.
Not only Golowchenko, but also some of his Ukrainian Nazi followers, devoted most of their waking hours to the Legion. They participated in public and private meetings of the Gray Shirts, adding a weird international flavor to the fiercely nationalistic Legion.
The Nationalism of the Legion became as tainted as the nationalism of Franco’s “nationalists.” In their files was Nazi propaganda, printed in Germany, in the strangest languages. One of the choice exhibits was the assortment of propaganda printed in Hungarian, by German Nazis, for distribution abroad. It became one of the odd jobs of the Gray Shirts to hunt up stray Hungarians in Cuba and press this German propaganda upon them. Other pieces were printed in English and German. “
And Biden (the guy who started the coup that let the right sektor take power) is the “ alternative” to Trump?
Good luck world and.... have fun
Outstanding work Dave.If only we listened a little closer over the decades. Bright side... they exposing themselves
@Mark Johnson–
It would be inaccurate to say that Biden started anything in national and/or foreign policy. That is done by major corporations, Pentagon, CIA.
But Biden must do their bidding, as any and all political figures must, if they wish to prosper and/or stay alive.
On domestic policy, he is much, much better.
Still, Dems vs. GOP is, as I have said in a past post “Vichy France Versus Nazi Germany.”
Best,
Dave
If most of the reporters are left wing (90–95%), why haven’t they reported on all this Nazi interference in the world? Thanks, David
@David Lucas–
Most reporters are not “left wing,” although quite a few are “center-left” in their personal political views.
Editors and producers, however, are not. There is much conservative content in news–particularly about budgetary economics.
The Nazis don’t get much coverage because the CIA is pivotally involved in our news coverage.
Check out the 25 interviews I did with Jim DiEugenio about the Garrison investigation.
That gives a good view point.
Best,
Dave