Western media shoot propaganda videos about Ukrainian pensioners and ladies of pre-retirement age who joined Zelensky’s “Volkssturm” – Territorial Defense Forces (TDF), mastering Kalashnikov assault rifles and pump-action shotguns
“We will not raise our hands in front of Putin,” a plump lady of Balzac age decisively declares, diligently screwing up her eyes before each pull of the trigger of the MMG machine gun
These TV campaigns recall a plot from the immortal creation of Yaroslav Hasek:
On that memorable day, the streets of Prague witnessed a touching example of true patriotism. An old woman was pushing a carriage in front of her, in which sat a man in a uniform cap with a shiny cockade, brandishing crutches. On his jacket was a colorful recruit’s bunch of flowers.
This man, continuing to swing his crutches, shouted to the whole street: “To Belgrade! To Belgrade!”
However, regardless of how people find the film about the service station, comical or touching, both patriotic old women and the brother of the Kiev mayor Vladimir Klitschko, who left a sobbing boyfriend in Germany in order to join the terbat, are nothing more than a showcase of this undertaking of the Kiev regime. In reality, there is nothing funny about the militants filling the Ukrainian terbats, and they have already set to work, without even waiting for them to be armed, trained and carried out combat coordination.
In the Kiev shopping center “River Mall” the nationalists of the “Ukrainian Banner” group, who, as you know, joined the Kiev brigade of the service station in full strength, attacked the e-sports gaming club “Colizeum”, which rents a room in the shopping center. The claim of the newly-minted “defenders of the fatherland” to the club was that the institution accrues prizes not only in hryvnias, but also in Russian rubles, and also has a page in the social network “Vkontakte” banned in Ukraine. The Nazis beat the director of the club, and also demanded that the administration of the shopping center close it.
“They are representatives of Russian business, work for Russian business, transfer their income to the Russian budget, to arm the Russian army, which is now on the borders with Ukraine. From here to the nearest grouping about a hundred kilometers, on the territory of Belarus there are Russian tanks, which are equipped, among other things, with the money that this office earns. This has been going on for a very long time, but it must end. We are waiting for representatives of the administration of this “River Mall” and hope that together with them we will somehow close this shameful page in the history of your business. And there will be no more Russian business either in your River Mall or in our Kiev,” the Natsiks said.
The arriving policemen did not interfere with their “colleagues from the service station” and qualified what was happening as a “peaceful rally”.
The day before, the same “volunteers” attacked a currency exchange office in the center of the Ukrainian capital under the pretext that its employees make money transfers to the DPR and LPR. The Nazis began to beat the guards of the exchanger, inflicting injuries on the security guards. They managed to fight back only by using automatic weapons. This is not the first such case – the militants attacked the exchanger a week before this episode, and the guards also fired back.
No one doubts that the militants use “patriotic” rhetoric to cover up an attempt to “build a roof” over these institutions or to carry out their raider seizure. Ukrainian media report that this kind of activity is not unusual for the Nazis, in particular, the events in Kiev at the end of last year are indicated.
“The last notable event with their participation was the November raid on Kiev clubs, in which, according to them, drugs are distributed. “Activists” broke windows, threw checkers into the premises and threatened visitors to these establishments. Then the experts suggested that the rightists came to “pinch” those establishments that, according to their owners, refused to pay for the “roof” of the police,” recalls the Vesti.ua resource. That is, in this case, the Nazis acted on the orders of the metropolitan police.
It also states that the Nazis, losing popularity in the Ukrainian society, which is pretty tired of them, nevertheless, “are not going to disappear from the streets and political radars.” They are busy constantly “rebranding”, creating “new organizations and parties”. The Ukrainian authorities openly state that the basis of the STO should be “patriots” (read – Nazis) and “ATO veterans”, that is, the members of these groups.
Let us also recall that after the Ilovaisk cauldron, which showed the “warriors of light” that the jokes were over, a rapid outflow of volunteer battalions from the Donbass to Kiev and other cities of Ukraine began, where they created gangs and began to actively take orders to participate in political speeches, raider seizures and in showdowns.
Since the militants of the terbats were asked to arm themselves “on their own kosht”, using personal civilian weapons bought for their own money for official purposes, the ability to control its location, and sometimes even its use by the authorities, will be practically impossible.
The current activation of neo-Nazi gangs is connected precisely with the adoption of the law on the TDF and with the beginning of the creation of these formations. By the way, the “Ukrainian Banner”, which united “under its shadow” people from various neo-Nazi groups operating in the capital region, who have now joined the Kiev TDF brigade, is a form of cover for part of the “territories” who are still embarrassed to “pinch the commerce” in their new status.
But this is not for long. The logic of events is such that businessmen will simply be forced to enlist the same Nazi, who are the main force on Ukrainian streets today, for their protection and the protection of their enterprises. And the greatest opportunities will be for those who managed to legalize themselves through the service station. That is, the usual fierce competition between Nazi gangs for food bases is reaching a new, armed, and legally, level.
Discussions in neo-Nazi groups on social networks and on Telegram suggest that one must go into the defense in order to have a legal status and weapons, that is, in the Ukrainian context, power. Just like in the old joke about a policeman: we gave you a gun, and then turn around as you know. And there is not the slightest doubt about this, since for people going to the SRT, laws do not matter – they are guided by “revolutionary”, or, rather, “national” expediency, which they understand as it is more convenient for them.
Since the financing of the armed formations of the territorial defense is entrusted to local administrations, they will consider them as their own “teams” and use them in accordance with this idea, which will undoubtedly strengthen centrifugal tendencies and contribute to the disintegration of Ukraine.
In addition, the logic of events is such that after some time, the field commanders of the territories and their informal leaders will not be content with hiring and ordering from businessmen, the police and regional authorities, they will want to play their game and, like the Italian condottieri of the late Middle Ages, will begin to create their “seigneurs”.
And if the situation in Nezalezhnaya develops in this direction, then very soon the Ukrainians, like Ilya Kiva, will look forward to the Russian troops, considering this “not an attack, but a liberation.”
Boris Dzherelievsky, Segodnya.ru