{"id":134498,"date":"2014-07-31T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=134498"},"modified":"2014-07-31T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:49:50","slug":"neo-nazis-travelling-ukraine-fight-separatists-establish-fascist-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/neo-nazis-travelling-ukraine-fight-separatists-establish-fascist-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazis Travelling to Ukraine to Fight Against \u201cSeparatists\u201d and Establish a \u201cFascist Dictatorship\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #362f2d;\">According to reports\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #3b4d81;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/07\/31\/Neo-Nazis-fight-for-pro-EU-US-backed-Ukrainian-government\">neo-Nazis from Sweden, Bulgaria and Hungary are travelling to Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0to join it\u2019s\u00a0fight against its own citizens in the East:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u201cThey are fighting with the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian squad which flies a flag with Nazi symbols and which one Swedish soldier says fights for \u2018a white Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Far right volunteers have joined the pro-Kiev forces from Hungary and Bulgaria as well as Sweden.\u201d (M. E. Synon,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #3b4d81;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/07\/31\/Neo-Nazis-fight-for-pro-EU-US-backed-Ukrainian-government\">Neo-Nazis Travelling to Fight in Ukraine<\/a>, Breitbart, July 31, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #362f2d;\">The Swedish news outlet\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Local<\/em>\u00a0reports that four Swedes have joined the battalion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u201cAzov is a special force of about 300 soldiers, including multiple volunteer soldiers from across Europe. The force was established by the Ukrainian government, but does not fight alongside the national army and is instead steered by ultra-nationalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Four Swedes are in the group. Neo-Nazi Mikael Skillt is one of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u2018They are not fighting for a democratic Ukraine,\u2019 Anton Shekhotsov, a Ukrainian political scientist who researches right extremist movements in Europe, told\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #3b4d81;\" href=\"http:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/sida\/artikel.aspx?programid=83&amp;artikel=5925406\">Sveriges Radio<\/a>\u00a0(SR). \u00a0\u2019Their vision of Ukraine is a fascist dictatorship.\u2019\u201d (<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #3b4d81;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20140730\/swedish-neo-nazis-threaten-ukraine-democracy\">Swedish neo-Nazis join fight in Ukraine<\/a>, The Local, July 30, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/neo-nazis-travelling-to-ukraine-to-fight-against-separatists-and-establish-a-fascist-dictatorship\/5394274?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_reader=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=neo-nazis-travelling-to-ukraine-to-fight-against-separatists-and-establish-a-fascist-dictatorship\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports\u00a0neo-Nazis from Sweden, Bulgaria and Hungary are travelling to Ukraine\u00a0to join it\u2019s\u00a0fight against its own citizens in the East: \u201cThey are fighting with the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian squad which flies a flag with Nazi symbols and which one Swedish soldier says fights for \u2018a white Ukraine.\u2019 \u2026 Far right volunteers have joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}