By Jonny Tickle
Thousands of far-right Ukrainian nationalists have taken to the streets in Kiev on the country’s Defenders and Defendresses Day, a public holiday, under the flags of the Azov and Right Sector extremist organizations, among others.
The march, which began in the city’s center, started at noon on Thursday and saw the participants walk through Kiev to Maidan, the capital’s main square.
The holiday, founded in 2015, is celebrated every year on October 14. A regular fixture of the festivities has been a march of Nazis through the center of Kiev. The date was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a Nazi collaboration group that fought against the Soviet Union during World War II. In recent years the group has been revered, despite its collaboration with occupying German forces, involvement in the Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was the paramilitary arm of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, led by ultranationalist collaborator and anti-semite Stepan Bandera.
https://www.rt.com/russia/537495-kiev-far-right-nationalists-march/
Thousands of far-right Ukrainian nationalists have taken to the streets in Kiev on the country’s Defenders and Defendresses Day, a public holiday, under the flags of the Azov and Right Sector extremist organizations, among others.
The march, which began in the city’s center, started at noon on Thursday and saw the participants walk through Kiev to Maidan, the capital’s main square.
The holiday, founded in 2015, is celebrated every year on October 14. A regular fixture of the festivities has been a march of Nazis through the center of Kiev. The date was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a Nazi collaboration group that fought against the Soviet Union during World War II. In recent years the group has been revered, despite its collaboration with occupying German forces, involvement in the Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was the paramilitary arm of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, led by ultranationalist collaborator and anti-semite Stepan Bandera.
https://www.rt.com/russia/537495-kiev-far-right-nationalists-march/
