#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #UKRAINE #RUSSIA #DONBAS #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) anarkismo.net: The Nazis of the Donbas "democracies" by Andrea Ferrario (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The elimination of most of the fascists of the first two years of the breakaway

republics does not mean that the latter have been democratized. There have always
remained dictatorships where torture, targeted killings against the surviving
crumbs of civil society, homophobic and fundamentalist Christian policies are
systematically practiced. In addition, the separatist leadership destroyed the
local economy with a policy of pure looting, not paying wages to workers or
handing over the country's assets to big capitalists of the Russian Federation.
---- The Nazis of the Donbas "Republics" ---- By Andrea Ferrario ---- The Nazis
and right-wing extremists who founded and ran the two Donbas "people's
democracies" starting in 2014. ---- Provisional sidelined by the Kremlin after
their duties ended, they recently returned to the scene of war. ---- We document
how the legends about the existence of genuine anti-fascism in Donbass is a
colossal "hoax", particularly concerned with the figure of the late commander
Mozgovoi and his links with the extreme right.

1) The Nazis of the "republics" of Donbass

While Italy always focused exclusively on Ukrainian neo-fascists, the macroscopic
problem of Nazi fascism in the "people's democracies" and Russia was
systematically ignored. The Italian left, and most of the international one, let
themselves pass under their noses without uttering a single shy "ohibò" what was
perhaps the biggest Nazi political and military operation in Europe after 1945,
the creation in 2014 of the separatists". people's republics' of Donetsk and
Lugansk and their military actions, carried out under the auspices of Moscow, to
gain control of Donbass.

The methods of creating the "republics" and the profile of the Nazis who founded
them are described in the in-depth investigation published by "Global Crisis",
with dozens of links to mainly separatist and Russian sources, in late April.
2014, i.e. almost immediately:

The Black Soul of the "Republic of Donetsk" The article details how the groups at
the origin of the two separatist "republics" that were created immediately after
the Maidan and the annexation of Crimea were formed entirely by Nazis, racists,
anti-Semites and philo-tsarist right-wing extremists. The most prominent of them
were from the Russian Federation and previously had nothing to do with Donbass.

The two main leaders, Igor Girkin "Strelkov" and Aleksandar Boroday, fit exactly
this profile, and at least the former, with military experience in Bosnia and
Chechnya, was certainly connected to Russian intelligence.

The same is almost certainly true of the entire separatist leadership, which
acted in complete harmony with Moscow's planning of events, although for obvious
reasons there is precise evidence for only some of its representatives.

Even the armed forces of the two "republics" were under fascist control, just
think that those of the "Republic of Luhansk" were for a long time under the
command of a well-known neo-Nazi from St. Petersburg, Aleksey Milchakov, and
those of the Donetsk republic under that of an equally well-known neo-Nazi,
Aleksandr Matyushin, former head of the Donetsk branch of the neo-Nazi group
Russkiy Obraz and the associated "democracy" youth organization, also a founder
of the Nazi-fascist Varyag Order.

Under the orders of their comrades sent from Moscow, there were also some local
neo-fascist micro-groups of Donbass, which were activated in anti-Maidan
operation even before the events of March 2014. The latter had nothing to do with
the local population. and they achieved their results solely thanks to the
support of Moscow, as well as the conditional support received by the local
mafia-oligarch rulers.

In addition, the Nazis and other right-wing extremists at the head of the
separatist "democracies" were part of an international network created by the
Kremlin through "Eurasian Unions", "international conferences", symposia, calls
of "international observers". to fake elections, with the aim of converging
European right-wing extremism (and in the coming years, also in the United
States) to Moscow's interests.

Therefore, the dimension of the separatist Nazi enterprise, in contrast to, for
example, that of Ukrainian neo-fascism, is also pan-European in nature.

Finally, again in 2014, for documentary reasons, we published the "theoretical"
text of an ideologue of the "Republic of Donetsk", Igor Droz, which is emblematic
of the far-right, Christian fundamentalist and homophobic nature of separatist
democracies: The "neofascist anti-fascism of Novorossiya.

Igor Droz was close to Igor Strelkov and attended meetings of the separatist
think tank Izborsky Club, which included the well-known Russian neo-fascist
Aleksander Dugin.

But what happened after 2014-2015?

Moscow progressively removed most of the men of the first hour, namely the
aforementioned fascists. The latter proved difficult to control, many commanders
having created real fiefdoms in conflict with each other, or in conflict with the
leaderships of Donetsk and Lugansk.

Thanks to the Nazi separatists, Putin had successfully completed the first phase
of his war against Ukraine, was not currently interested in escalating a conflict
for which he did not yet consider himself prepared, and aimed for now at holding
Kyiv. government after mortgaging the functioning of the country by creating
separatist "democracies", while still continuing to weave a far-right network at
the European level that could be useful to him on issues such as sanctions,
natural gas and others.

The early separatists have almost all been pushed out of the picture in one way
or another. Strelkov and Boroday were recalled to Moscow (the latter is now a
deputy from United Russia), many commanders were killed.

The first new man, who replaced the separatist "president" Boroday in the summer
of 2014, was Alexander Zakharchenko, also from far-right circles, but grayer and
more docile - which, however, did not save him from dying in an attack in 2018.

Several other well-known commanders were also killed, such as Motorola, Givi or
Alexey Mozgovoy. Today in power remain impersonal characters, real puppets of
Moscow, such as Denis Pushilin, the only survivor of the first hour, also
connected to the extreme right, but far from being an active fighter: the period
before the "secession". he was limited to stealing money from pensioners as a
manager of a financial pyramid.

Neo-Nazi battalions (the Rusich) or with a large neo-fascist presence within them
(the Somalis) have nevertheless continued and continue to operate on the ground
in Donbass, and in recent weeks Pushilin has been caught decorating a commander
who wore a neo-Nazi symbol on his uniform.

The Wagner massacre mercenary group also has Nazi tendencies (see, for example,
the articles in Res Publica and the Guardian), which, as early as 2014, is now
active in Donbass together with the separatists and the Russian army, having
fought and carried out massacres in the Middle East and Africa in the service of
Moscow.

The elimination of most of the fascists of the first two years of the breakaway
republics does not mean that the latter have been democratized. There have always
remained dictatorships where torture, targeted killings against the surviving
crumbs of civil society, homophobic and fundamentalist Christian policies are
systematically practiced. In addition, the separatist leadership destroyed the
local economy with a policy of pure looting, not paying wages to workers or
handing over the country's assets to big capitalists of the Russian Federation.

One of the best sources for these aspects is Natalia Savelyeva's detailed article
published by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Also very useful are the accurate materials published by historian and left-wing
activist Simon Pirani on his "People and Nature" website, such as the
"democracies" Putin is fighting for and social protest and repression in Donbass.

On the far-right nature of the separatist "democracies" the essay "Russian White
Guards in Donbass" by Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski, published by International
Viewpoint, as well as "The Oligarchic Rebellion in Donbass" are of fundamental
importance.

Another article that pinpoints the links between Russian neo-Nazis, the Kremlin
and the Donbas Nazis is "Neo-Nazi Russian Nationalist Reveals How Russia's
Leaders Sent Them to Ukraine to Kill Ukrainians."

Also useful are "The Involvement of Russian Ultra-Nationalists in the Donbas
Conflict," by Richard Arnold, and the recent "Neo-Nazi Russian Attack Unit Hints
It's Going Back Into Ukraine Undercover," on the neo-Nazi Rusich Order.

As for photographic documents, we recommend these two "galleries" of images about
the Nazis of Donbass:
http://www.evasiljeva.ru/2017/08/blog-post_20.html

*https://glavnoe.ua/news/n186957

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32690
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