The Putin Interviews

[KaptainRob]

A documentary by controversial US film maker Oliver Stone provides insight into Putin's psyche 

 

[ThailandRyan]

I have just heard of a group of military separatists down in the Donbas region called the Azov Unit.  They are being said to be the Neo-Nazi group that Putin is basing part of his invasion of the Ukraine on. However, every country has its own version of these types in the US we call them White Supremacists. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment

Russian President Vladimir Putin referenced the presence of such units within the Ukrainian military as one of the reasons for launching his so-called “special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”.

 

Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.

The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.