{"id":1421956,"date":"2022-04-06T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421956"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:29:58","slug":"wapo-finally-admits-role-of-azov-battalion-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-finally-admits-role-of-azov-battalion-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Finally Admits Role of Azov Battalion in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-finally-admits-role-of-azov-battalion-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421956&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p>After months of denying the influence of Neo Nazis in Ukraine\u2019s military, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> has finally conceded the point \u2013 long blasted as \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d or \u201cKremlin disinformation\u201d \u2013 about the nation\u2019s Azov battalion.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published April 6th 2022, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/oFCee#selection-763.0-766.0\">explains<\/a> in its headline: \u201c<em>Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington Post admits the far-right influence of Azov.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The report cites Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, who admitted the \u201callure\u201d for Neo Nazis in Ukraine is \u201cnot surprising,\u201d in WaPo\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing shocking about it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the only conflict you can join.\u201d He added: \u201cWhere you want to go? To Syria, where Muslims killing Muslims, to West Africa, where Black people kill Black people? As you\u2019re a Nazi, that\u2019s not the conflict you want to join.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WaPo also concedes, in less uncertain terms:<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GETTR_GetOnGettr_DM_V02_A5.jpg\" alt=\"Get On Gettr\" style=\"text-align: center;\" \/>  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite their military successes, the Azov continued to be criticized as adherents to neo-Nazi ideology. Even as they have consistently denied any Nazi affiliations, their uniforms and tattoos on many of their fighters display a number of fascist and Nazi symbols, including swastikas and SS symbols. In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time, told USA Today that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/oFCee\/https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/03\/10\/ukraine-azov-brigade-nazis-abuses-separatists\/24664937\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 to 20 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Azov\u2019s recruits were Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper is still keen to run cover for the group, much as the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2020\/07\/25\/new-york-times-publishes-hitler\/\">did during the Second World War:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Azov battalion is also not what it was in 2014. Ever since it was incorporated into Ukraine\u2019s National Guard late that year, they \u201chad to purge a lot of those extremist elements,\u201d said Mollie Saltskog, a senior intelligence analyst at the Soufan Group. \u201cThere was much more control exerted over who is affiliated with the battalions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/03\/24\/biden-linked-company-partnered-with-ukraine-biolabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#eaeaea; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #34495E!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); text-decoration:none; } .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a:active, .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 0.95; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#C0392B; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a .postTitle { color:#000000; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .u1c4b04840432fd148623feecbd0a592a:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Bio Firm Partnered With Ukrainian Researchers \u2018Isolating Deadly Pathogens\u2019 Using Funds From Obama&#8217;s Defense Department.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The paper interviewed Col. Andriy Biletskiy \u2013 co-founder and commander of Azov who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/13\/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links\">on the record<\/a> as wanting to \u201clead the white races of the world in a final crusade \u2026 against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans]\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t identify ourselves with the Nazi ideology,\u201d said Biletskiy. \u201cWe have people of conservative political views, and I see myself as such. But, as any person, I don\u2019t want my views to be defined by others. I\u2019m not a Nazi. We completely reject it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another interviewee for the article, author Michael Colborne, said that while he \u201cwouldn\u2019t call [Azov] explicitly a neo-Nazi movement\u2026 There are clearly neo-Nazis within its ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are elements in it who are, you know, neo-fascist and there are elements who are maybe more kind of old-school Ukrainian nationalist,\u201d said Colborne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt its core, it\u2019s hostile to liberal democracy. It\u2019s hostile to every everything that comes with liberal democracy, minority rights, voting rights, things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/oFCee#selection-1567.5-1567.385\">admits<\/a>: \u201c\u2026the battalion\u2019s far-right nationalist ideology has raised concerns that it is attracting extremists, including white supremacist neo-Nazis, who could pose a future threat. When Putin cast his assault on Ukraine as a quest to \u201cde-Nazify\u201d the country, seeking to delegitimize the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian nationalism as fascist, he was partly referring to the Azov forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news report flies in the face of both <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/DziqV\">news<\/a> reports and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/hgZFk\">opinion<\/a> pieces published by the <em>Washington Post<\/em> since the beginning of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, both of which have sought to reject the influence of Neo Nazis in the nation\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-biden-hints-at-war-with-russia-during-u-s-troop-talk-on-ukraine-youre-gonna-see-when-youre-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"u0295629546f5e77b7ecafbc8675f7812\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .u0295629546f5e77b7ecafbc8675f7812 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; 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} <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">WATCH: Biden Hints at War With Russia During U.S. Troop Talk on Ukraine: &#8216;You&#8217;re Gonna See WHEN You&#8217;re There&#8217;.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While the paper still suggests that Neo Nazis serving the secularist, Jewish-born president Volodymyr Zelensky somehow negatives their extremist purpose, critics have alleged it says more about Zelensky and his willingness to lead Neo Nazi elements in his national guard than it does the changing nature of the Azov battalion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.memberful.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20211111-WA0000.jpg\" alt=\"Fund Real News\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of denying the influence of Neo Nazis in Ukraine\u2019s military, the Washington Post has finally conceded the point \u2013 long blasted as \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d or \u201cKremlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}