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https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/on-the-influence-of-neo-nazism-in-ukraine/
Roses Have Thorns documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPXDAOv6gXa3Xsx-rKLYd0W1LvhjlwCTk&si=pu8SL7VITE__sZH9
Interview with Right Sector Leader (later leader of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army and now a leader of national defense): https://archive.ph/XeOKH
Explaining the UVA/Right Sector and why it hasn't been absorbed into the state and "denazified" like Azov Battalion: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2021.2009633
Far right violence keeps getting away with it: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/7/26/after-series-of-attacks-why-is-the-far-right-granted-impunity
British journal investigates "Neo-Nazi Hooligan culture" in Ukraine: https://web.archive.org/web/20120428054011/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4284461/The-Sun-investigates-anarchy-in-Ukraine-Euro-2012-hate-camps.html
History of Fascism in Ukraine: https://mronline.org/2022/10/21/ukrainian-nationalists-have-long-history-of-anti-semitism-which-the-soviet-union-tried-to-combat/
Far Right MP beats up news station head for broadcasting news of the Crimean referendum: https://youtu.be/JYEneaA9nLA
Also check out journalist Moss Robeson: https://linktr.ee/mossrobeson
He writes on the role of fascist escapees and their role in the Ukrainian diaspora in the US, CA, and AU. As well as the US contacts with the far right in Ukraine.
There is also the Plast scouting organization. They have existed since before WW1 and created Bandera and he would later recruit from the scouts to the OUN-B which would field the members of the SS Galicia Division with the sponsorship of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which also funded Plast and continues to do so in Ukraine, the US, CA, and AU. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland went through the Plast program as her grandfather helped found the Canadian chapters. She also helped her uncle [iirc] write her grandfather's memoirs, he ran a pro-Nazi rag in Nazi occupied Poland.
Low key you can even search my profile for Ukraine, I've written some summaries about the situation generally.
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