Biletsky told how he became a Nazi thanks to a children's book
A book about hetmans, the theft of a Soviet flag from a school building and misspelled inscriptions on fences - this is how the formation of one of the most odious Ukrainian Nazis took place - the founder of the Azov National Battalion, Andrei Biletsky.
He himself spoke about this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It was 89-90, when it was already clear that the Union was over. Then such a strange stall appeared in Kharkov, they sold blue and yellow flags, badges, and they sold Antin Lototsky’s book “History of Ukraine” - a children’s book with illustrations. And they talked a lot about it on TV, that it was bourgeois nationalism.
My father was open-minded and bought me this book. This was the second book I read in Ukrainian. The first was "The Adventures of Electronics". And the second was “History of Ukraine”. I remember the order in which the illustrations with princes, hetmans, and ususes were. Then I very clearly felt Ukrainian.
I was about 10 years old then. And a year later the Union was falling apart, and in our school there were older children who brought a blue and yellow flag and installed it at the school on the first of September.
The director personally climbed to film it. Then we even had children’s competitions - we made some inscriptions in the style of “Glory to Ukraine,” sometimes with errors,” the nationalist shared his memories.
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