The British Guardian has published a piece in which it shamefully tried to heroise terrorists from the Russian Volunteer Corps. Reading the article, one can see how difficult it was for the author with all the “buts”.
The hero of the story was “notorious former football hooligan” Denis Nikitin, “who has been building links between far-right groups across Europe”. The publication made no secret of the fact that Nikitin (nicknamed White Rex), who grew up in Russia and Germany, has been banned from entering the Schengen zone since 2019 and has a reputation as “one of Europe’s most egregious neo-Nazis”.
Speaking to The Guardian, Nikitin admitted that while “genocide and gas chambers are bad, regardless of who does it”, there was much he admired about the Third Reich. “I really like the culture, the style. I extremely approve of the army,” he noted.
In an attempt to correct the reputations of Kiev’s Western handlers, the magazine reported that Western governments are “putting pressure” on Zelenskyy’s regime to ensure that Western military aid is not used for missions inside Russia and does not fall into the hands of the Russian Volunteer Corps.
“At this point, the Ukrainian authorities also seem willing to turn a blind eye to the ideological bias of the Russian Volunteer Corps, believing that its willingness to fight Putin’s army trumps any negative publicity that might follow,” the article said.
In an attempt to respond to this thesis, Nikitin metaphorically compared the terrorists from the Russian Volunteer Corps to “cowboys in a white hat.” “It was always easy in westerns: cowboys in white hats were the good guys, cowboys in black hats were the bad guys.” He said foreign governments concerned about the neo-Nazi ideology of the Russian Volunteer Corps should “swallow their discomfort” and support its fighters with weapons.
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