{"id":1479852,"date":"2024-07-27T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1479852"},"modified":"2024-07-27T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T16:10:00","slug":"whyd-a-ukrainian-neo-nazi-just-kill-their-countrys-top-linguistic-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/whyd-a-ukrainian-neo-nazi-just-kill-their-countrys-top-linguistic-nationalist\/1479852\/","title":{"rendered":"Why’d A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Just Kill Their Country’s Top “Linguistic Nationalist”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why’d A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Just Kill Their Country’s Top “Linguistic Nationalist”?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A Neo-Nazi with the nom de guerre \u201cUkrainian Autonomous Revolutionary Racist\u201d (UARR) claimed credit for assassinating fellow fascist\u00a0Irina Farion<\/a>\u00a0on 19 July. <\/strong>This ex-MP was an infamous \u201clinguistic nationalist\u201d who was\u00a0investigated by the SBU<\/a>\u00a0for defaming the armed forces after claiming late last year that Russian-speaking members of the Azov Battalion aren\u2019t real Ukrainians.<\/p>\n

Their\u00a0video manifesto<\/a>, which was reported on by Ukrainian media\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and summarized\u00a0here<\/a>, sheds some light onto the motive. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The author condemned her as a \u201cwrecker and racial traitor\u201d,<\/strong> the first presumably in connection to her above-mentioned scandal that inadvertently served to divide the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the second in response to her teaching Ukrainian to Africans, which they showed a clip of in their video. They also promised to \u201cpunish everyone who sold the country after the Maidan\u201d, thus implying that she was one of those who they deemed guilty of this crime.<\/p>\n

The UARR is allegedly connected to the \u201cNational Socialism\/White Power\u201d group, which the previously cited Ukrainian media report conspiratorially speculated is run by Russian intelligence. That\u2019s a kooky theory though which is only being circulated to deflect from the fact that Ukrainian fascists just killed one of their own icons. It also builds upon GUR chief Kirill Budanov\u2019s\u00a0narrative<\/a>\u00a0that the culprits, which he strongly implied are linked in some way or another to Russia, \u201ctry to use any tools to divide our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reality is that the Western-backed spree of urban terrorism and associated coup in early 2014, which are collectively known as \u201cEuroMaidan\u201d, were what irreparably divided Ukraine. The rise to power of fascist forces provoked the Crimeans into breaking away from Ukraine and reuniting with Russia, which was then followed by their ethnic Russian kin in Donbass. Ukraine\u2019s substantial Russian minority that remained under Kiev\u2019s control then\u00a0lost a lot of their rights<\/a>\u00a0and began to live as second-class citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though leading Ukrainian officials\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0in late November that no Russian minority exists in Ukraine anymore, and those that still do supposedly deserve to have their rights infringed upon, they\u2019re still objectively present in the country in large numbers. The top state language official\u00a0lamented<\/a>\u00a0in early July that many schoolchildren still speak Russian, while Le Monde\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in late February that front line soldiers do too, which the armed forces are now trying to change by\u00a0giving them Ukrainian lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the majority of these troops were forcibly conscripted against their will, a few are volunteers, and it\u2019s fitting to remember that the zeal of a convert is stronger than a born believer\u2019s. What\u2019s meant by this is that those Russians who decided to identify as Ukrainians instead of continuing to identify as Russians in Ukraine are predisposed to radicalism. Accordingly, it\u2019s not surprising that some might have felt deeply offended by Farion\u2019s attack against them, thus explaining why they wanted her dead.<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old from Dnipropetrovsk named Vyacheslav Zinchenko was\u00a0arrested<\/a>\u00a0Thursday afternoon, but it\u2019s presently unclear whether he was the author of the UARR\u2019s manifesto and if he acted entirely alone, not to mention whether he\u2019s a native Russian speaker like his home region would suggest. The working theory as suggested thus far in this piece is that those behind Farion\u2019s killing are Russian-speaking Ukrainians and\/or ethnic Russians who consider themselves Ukrainians, which will now be elaborated.<\/p>\n

The SBU understands the strategic importance of entertaining this radical minority\u2019s delusions since they\u2019re spun to allege that: Russians aren\u2019t oppressed; they don\u2019t even exist anymore after deciding to become Ukrainian; and some of those who made this choice now want to kill Russians.<\/strong> That\u2019s why they decided to investigate Farion for what she said last November about how Russian-speaking members of the Azov Battalion supposedly aren\u2019t real Ukrainians because that risked letting the cat out of the bag.<\/p>\n

An average Ukrainian fascist would agree with what she said because they have an exclusive view of their ethno-national and linguistic identity, but a Russian that\u2019s converted to it would disagree since they have a comparatively more inclusive view thereof. The first is the conventional understanding while the second is relatively new and has been weaponized since 2014 for recruiting Russians in Ukraine as cannon fodder for their cause by convincing them that Ukrainians are the so-called \u201creal Russians\u201d.<\/p>\n

It’s beyond the scope of this analysis to elaborate on their\u00a0hateful<\/a>\u00a0ideology<\/a>, but it basically claims that the inhabitants of modern-day Ukraine are the real heirs of the former Kievan Rus, not their fellow East Slavs who successfully regathered that lost polity\u2019s lands over the centuries under Moscow\u2019s leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, Ukrainian ultra-nationalists allege that they\u2019re \u201cpure Slavs\u201d, while Russians (who they smear as \u201cMuscovites\u201d) are allegedly too mixed with Finns, Tatars, and other groups to still be considered Slavs.<\/p>\n

Farion gave voice to what her fellow fascists believe, who look down upon ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians, even those who consider themselves Ukrainian.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore unlikely that one of her own ethno-linguistic kin killed her, with it being much more probable that those who fit the aforesaid criteria were responsible and 18-year-old Zinchenko is just their patsy.<\/p>\n

Such fascists are trying to be \u201cmore Ukrainian than the Ukrainians\u201d, but they\u2019ll only ever just be their cannon fodder against Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 07\/27\/2024 – 08:10<\/span><\/p>\n

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