Neo[fascists] and ultra[rightist]s in Berlin, Madrid, and Zagreb went the extra mile with graffiti dedicated to Denys Prokopenko (and in one case, the WBC [‘White Boys Club’, not Westboro Baptist Church]). “For us it’s a great honor that Denis has come from our movement,” explained “Dynamo Hooligans,” an Instagram page with almost 12,000 followers that shared the internationally coordinated congratulations from “our comrades,” and quoted the Azov commander: “Ukraine belongs to us. Brave, real and loyal. Who have chosen honor and courage.”
Prokopenko mural by German neo[fascists] in Berlin, 2023
Two days later, another version of this Prokopenko quote was projected before an audience at Stanford University: “Ukraine belongs to us. Bold, genuine and faithful. Who choose honor and courage.” It was the second time since last year that representatives of the Azov movement — including Kateryna Prokopenko, who is married to “Redis” — spoke at the élite private university in California. This time, ironically enough, the Azov delegation met political scientist Francis Fukuyama, who is famous for writing about the “end of history.”
(Emphasis added, because I am sure that plenty of antisocialists still take Francis Fukuyama seriously.)
Reminder that there are antisocialist intellectuals supporting Ukrainian neofascism:
The UVF counts among its partners “Razom for Ukraine” in New York City, which has an advocacy arm that co-organized the Ukraine Action Summit. Razom gave Kozatsky a warm welcome in New York, and once organized a protest in Lower Manhattan at which demonstrators chanted, “Azov! Azov! Azov!” Razom volunteers recently created a video on behalf of the Association of Azovstal Defenders’ Families led by Kateryna Prokopenko. “Razom Advocacy” has strong ties to the Eurasia Center of the Atlantic Council, one of the most influential think tanks in Washington.
Perhaps most despicably, a handful of Jewish antisocialists are either overlooking or explicitly denying the threat of neofascism in Ukraine. For example:
Vladislav Davidzon, incidentally a nonresident senior fellow at the Eurasia Center, has emerged as one of the most shameless apologists for the Azov movement.
In response to an article by Lev Golinkin (“Why did Stanford students host a group of neo-Nazis?”), Davidzon wrote an outrageous and bizarre “open letter” to Golinkin, in which he declared “as a proud Eastern European Jew,” simply lying to gullible readers and willful ignoramuses, “There exists no serious neo-Nazi threat in Ukraine. None at all. This is a phantom fear lurking within the minds of various fantasists and neurotics.”
Projecting, and giving the game away, Davidzon actually chastised Golinkin to “stop telling fairy tales about Nazis.”
Events that happened today (August 11):
1938: The Empire of Japan lost to the Soviets in the Battle of Khasan.
1940: Under the aegis of the Italian consulate in Monaco, a mass to commemorate the liberation of the internees of Saint‐Cyprien and Vernet, officiated by Don Luigi De Biasi (himself a former Saint‐Cyprien prisoner), was held in Monaco’s Principality.
1943: Luigi Petrucci, the Italian ambassador and authorized minister in the NDH, and General Mario Robotti, the commander of the Second Italian Army and administrator of all annexed and occupied Croatian territories, held a meeting discussing questions concerning the relationship between Fascist Italy and the NDH. Meanwhile, Brazilian police apprehended the Axis spy William Marcus “Willy” Baarn in the small town of Gargau.