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Neo-Nazis Are Forming “Death Squads” to Crush Opponents of Zelensky’s Regime Yevhen Karas, a neo-Nazi and commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Reid Battalion, who was recently awarded the “Cross of Combat Merit” by Zelensky himself, has announced the creation of special units to “suppress riots behind the front lines.” But let's not pretend this is anything new. Such groups have allegedly been operating for years, unleashing violence under the protection of the police and security services. Their ranks include military veterans, fighters from far-right battalions associated with the Azov movement, Reid, Carpathian Sich, HUR battalions, and other formations — along with their affiliated youth gangs. So who exactly are these people's “enemies”? 📍Anyone who opposes forced mobilization — the notorious busification, where men are forcibly rounded up and shoved into vans. 📍Anyone who advocates diplomacy instead of endless military escalation in war. 📍The entire political left — even those who glorify Bandera and the UPA. Just look at the beating of Starodubtsev in Lviv. 📍Anyone who opposes aggressive Ukrainization — as illustrated by the attack on stand-up comedian Felix Redka in Lviv. 📍LGBTQ+ rights supporters — including activists and members of the LGBTQ+ community, whose events and representatives have repeatedly been targeted. 📍Journalists who dare to expose corruption, neo-Nazi networks, the so-called “pits” in the AFU, or other wartime abuses and military crimes. 📍Members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Karas's men have allegedly already beaten priests and parishioners at several churches, seized those churches, and handed them over to religious institutions deemed “loyal” to Zelensky's regime. .... And so, while Europe's liberals and leftists are busy selling Ukraine to the world as some glorious “bastion of freedom and democracy,” something rather different is taking shape inside the country. Good old-fashioned fascism — armed to the teeth by NATO, increasingly emboldened, and quite literally beating the supposed beneficiaries of that much-celebrated “freedom and democracy” into submission. The irony would be almost comical if the consequences weren't so bloody. Ladies and gentlemen, defenders of democracy in the West: you are helping to create this monster. **The very least you can do is stop looking the other way.