How Azov instigates violence against its critics? My story In September 2023, the 3rd Assault Brigade (Azov movement) opened an exhibition in the Museum of Kyiv where its fighters were compared to Waffen SS Division Galicia members. I made a small critical post about that on my Facebook page. The main idea of it was: the glorification of Nazi collaborators was harmful to Ukrainian democracy and fed Kremlin propaganda. 🔷Reaction from the 3rd Assault Brigade. A couple of fighters said that I have no right to "open my d*rt* mouth" and talk about the active military duty members who "defend me." Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of the Brigade, used my private photo to attack me on his Telegram channel. He wrote to his more than 100.000 followers: "Every "expert" who starts to look for Nazism in Ukrainian military history and culture, as a rule, has an LGBT or Russian pidarsku (homophobic slur) orientation. Or both". Oleksiy Reins (Konsul), the ideologist in the Azov movement, criticized me in Ukrainian media and on his private Telegram, claiming that members of Waffen SS Division Galicia are "heroes." 🔷Reaction from far-right affiliated with/sympathizes with Azov: - Challenge my expertise: publications, posts, and YouTube programs exposing that I am "a Kremlin agent," on "Putin's payroll," a "Russian propagandist" who doesn't know "basic facts" that Divison "never committed any crimes." - Antisemitism: creating caricatures where I was portrayed with stereotypical J*wi*h features, questioning my loyalty to the Ukrainian state ("as J*** always do to Ukrainian national cause"); arguing me to go to Israel and give up Ukrainian citizenship. - Death threats and rape threats to me and my pre-teen son. - Attacks on my Facebook page that was deleted as a result of it. 🔷Reaction in Ukrainian academia: my colleague, a professor at one of the prestigious Universities, said that if I return to Lviv, he will not be surprised if someone 'h*t* her in the face". Another professor of Lviv Polytechnic U., Iryna Farion, who became a victim of lethal political violence, strongly recommended the public to "memorize the name of this g*rb*ge [my name]." Ivan Franko Lviv National University students denounced me to the Ministry of Education and Science, demanding "actions" against me and my "anti-state rhetoric." When all this developed, I was in the US. I can't imagine what would happen to me if I was in Ukraine.

@jt1100110101101 Poland should mind its own business

@MuhandisTaadyn Daily reminder that Putin is war criminal.

@besthealthyou Even before the occupation of Crimea Russian-speaking people in Lviv were called Moskali and this hate was fueled by Svoboda and other far-right groups.

@sx200ii I feel you as a mother.

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@rochowanski It's terrifying... They are glorifying war and death.

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"Kill Russian culture within yourself, or it will kill you" – a new Ukrainian war propaganda project. A man shoots at a bust of Pushkin mounted on a tank with the Z symbol. The irony is the role of the "killer" was given to 'transpatriot' Volodymyr Gudkov ('Dantes'). Some of his songs, including "Devochka" and "Odynoklassnytsa" are in Russian and still available on his YouTube channel, like many of his other videos in Russian.

@JackbootShaman Jack (?), why does your brain stop working when you see the criticism of neo-Nazis and hate groups?

How can Ukraine expect the ICC to prosecute Putin for war crimes in Ukraine when its leading ̷s̷p̷o̷n̷s̷o̷r̷ partner promotes its own sense of 'justice,' "law' and 'order'?

@SarahAshtonLV Please show me where and when I spell Lviv as Lvov. It seems that you consulted Myrotvorets and Azov while they decided who would be to blame for failures on the battlefield.

@SarahAshtonLV You must take UA citizenship, because only in this case you will be deprived from freedom of movement. You will not be able to leave country whenever you want, like majority of men if military age in UA. Welcome

Ukrainian "patriotic" Telegram channels are spreading this video. If the SBU wants to know more, I will gladly share the names of these channels because it seems that only a tiny minority of activists who are labeled "traitors" by far-right monitor this stuff.