is this an attempt to drag #Ukraine and screech about Ukrainian nazis? No. It's to encourage those who saw through Right Sector's bullshit to look harder and realize there's much more work to do. These people aren't a majority but they're extremely problematic 2/?
these groups all have thousands of subscribers and in the comments you'll find hitler emojis, call for racist violence or violence against the LGBTQ+ community, and even against jews, including the Ukrainian president 3/?
To give you a little whos-who guide, this list was published by Militant Zone. An openly white power metal record label run by Russian neo nazis, including those in the Russian Volunteer Corps. They hold NSBM/openly neo nazi festivals in Kyiv every year.
the Wotan Jugend group is run by a combination of anti-Putin Russian neo nazis and Ukrainians. Wotan Jugend is a large group that has tried to recruit people from all across Europe to devote themselves to extreme white supremacist beliefs 4/?
White Powder is the official telegram group of Denis Nikitin/Kapustin - the leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps and a Russian neo nazi who has been in Kyiv for years orchestrating a number of far right events and the white power clothing company, White Rex 5/?
a little extra about him 6/?:
explore the rest at your own risk of cringe and disgust. MILITANT ZONE is the official telegram group for the white power record label with a brick and mortar shop on Maidan in Kyiv (how?!), RADICAL_SH8P sells Nazi gear and is run by another member of RDK 11/?
Russ_Center is Telegram for the Russian Center in Kyiv (yes, it exists). It served as a meeting grounds for both far right Russians and Ukrainians, for example Olena Semenyaka of the National Corps has given speech there and Dugin has visited. 12/?
the rest are various flavors of far right/homophobic/extreme nationalist/neo nazi garbage. I'm pointing these out so you know they exist and we need to start condemning this shit NOW. The best way to kill a propaganized narrative is to condemn this awful garbage rather than deny
and it's also to explain why people need to careful when using terms like #nationalism in a positive light and carelessly use various symbols that they bend over backwards to explain away as inoccuous, when you can see how they're used by terrible people. the end.