mysa schreef:Die Azov-lui zijn op dit moment gewoon nuttig. En de afgelopen jaren zullen ze wel de separatisten dwars gezeten hebben. Misschien heeft de oekraïnse overheid gedacht: useful idiots. Niet verstandig trouwens, maar wel begrijpelijk daar het maar om een klein groepje gaat.
Dit is geen klein onbelangrijk groepje dat slechts wat "useful idiots" zijn op dit moment. Uit het artikel dat ik hierboven heb gelinked:
Citaat:
In another ominous development, Ukraine has in recent years erected a glut of statues honoring Ukrainian nationalists whose legacies are tainted by their indisputable record as Nazi proxies. The Forward newspaper cataloged some of these deplorables, including Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose followers acted as local militia members for the SS and German army. “Ukraine has several dozen monuments and scores of street names glorifying this Nazi collaborator, enough to require two separate Wikipedia pages,” the Forward wrote.
Another frequent honoree is Roman Shukhevych, revered as a Ukrainian freedom fighter but also the leader of a feared Nazi auxiliary police unit that the Forward notes was “responsible for butchering thousands of Jews and … Poles.” Statues have also been raised for Yaroslav Stetsko, a one-time chair of the OUN, who wrote “I insist on the extermination of the Jews in Ukraine.”
Far-right groups have also gained political currency in the past decade, none more chilling than Svoboda (formerly the Social National Party of Ukraine), whose leader claimed the country was controlled by a “Muscovite-Jewish mafia” and whose deputy used an antisemitic slur to describe Ukrainian-born Jewish actor Mila Kunis. Svoboda has sent several members to Ukraine’s Parliament, including one who called the Holocaust a “bright period” in human history, according to Foreign Policy.
Hier nog een andere bron met uitgebreide details en onderbouwing:
https://geohistory.today/azov-movement-ukraine/
Citaat:
The Azov Battalion began after the separatist conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014 (OpenDemocracy, 2016). The group was created by members of two closely related ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations: the Social-National Assembly and the Patriot of Ukraine (Miller, 2018), and it quickly gained a reputation for helping the underequipped Ukrainian military forces. Azov eventually became an official regiment in Ukraine’s National Guard.
Allebei de artikelen zijn het lezen waard indien je dingen die niet in je straatje meteen afwijst en veroordeeld.
Of tot zoverre het Amerikaanse congres betrouwbaar is:

Ja, dat gaat wel wat verder dan wikipedia Babootje.