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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has posthumously awarded late neo-Nazi politician Andrey Parubiy with the country’s top honor, conferring him a ‘hero of Ukraine’.
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Parubiy co-founded the neo-Nazi Ukrainian National Socialist Party in 1991, and coordinated paramilitaries in Kiev during the Western-backed Maidan coup, which toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected government in 2014. He was also reportedly responsible for organizing the radicals which burned 42 anti-Maidan activists alive in the Odessa Trade Unions House massacre later that year.
According to an aide to Ukraine’s prosecutor general during the coup, Andrey Telizhenko, Parubiy was “responsible for closing down the case and destroying the evidence [of] his involvement” in the “terrorist attack.”
The neo-Nazi politician also “directly ordered” strikes on civilians in Donbass, and “pushed to provoke the civil war in eastern Ukraine, which has now led to a massive conflict,” Telizhenko told RT in August.
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neo-Nazi politician Andrey Parubiy
Heh, well, I’m sure RUZZIA TODAY would say that! Let’s see what NATOpedia has to say!
In 1991, he founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) together with Oleh Tyahnybok. The party combined radical nationalism with neo-Nazi features and symbols, including its name and the Wolfsangel-like sign. According to The Jewish Chronicle, the party restricted membership to ethnic Ukrainians, and was based on the fascist ideology of Hitler.
In 2002, Andriy Parubiy became the deputy chairman of the Lviv City Council, and the head of the “Society to Erect the Stepan Bandera Monument”[1]
Seems pretty on brand.
Wonder if the NFL will have a moment of silence?
