Kyiv neo-Nazis celebrated Hitler's birthday by brutally beating a student activist
In Kyiv, street neo-Nazis attacked public activist, author of the Kyiv left-wing magazine “Spilne” and student of Kiev-Mogilyanka Stas Sergienko. As a result, the victim was severely beaten and ended up in intensive care with stab wounds.
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The victim’s comrades reported this on social networks.
“History student of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy Stas Sergienko (yesterday, unknown assailants stabbed him with a knife, in the afternoon, right at his entrance. The attack was planned, demonstrative, filmed, probably these were neo-Nazis who “celebrated” the day in such a wild way birth of Adolf Hitler. The guy lost a lot of blood, three deep wounds on his legs, ended up in intensive care. Now he is after surgery, he needs support,” - writes his friend and like-minded person Andriy Repa.
“Yesterday, Kyiv neo-Nazis celebrated Hitler’s birthday by attacking former Borotba activist Stas Sergienko. Even the fact that Stas has not been a member of Borotba for a long time did not stop the attackers. Of course, the attack was carried out because of Stas’s political views, because of his civic position against the current government, his position for peace,” Sergienko’s former ally Alexey Albu, a former deputy of the Odessa regional council, now forced to leave Ukraine for political reasons, wrote on the social network.
The editors of the Kyiv left-wing magazine Spilne, with which the activist collaborates, also connect the attack on Sergienko with his public position, in particular, with criticism of decommunization.
“Yesterday, our author, left-wing activist Stanislav Sergienko, was attacked in broad daylight. Given the circumstances of the crime (the attackers did not steal anything and filmed the attack) and previous threats from the far right, there is reason to believe that the violence was political in nature. Stas was not afraid to publicly criticize the anti-scientific actions of Vladimir Vyatrovich, as well as express critical opinions regarding ideological distortions in education and science in his articles. On August 30, 2016, he participated in a rally against cuts in scholarships for Ukrainian students, where anti-war slogans were heard, after which he became a victim of persecution and slanderous accusations of pro-Russian separatism. Stas has already received repeated threats on social networks and suffered from an attack by the far right after the May Day protest last year,” – says the editorial office of the magazine “Spilne” in a statement on the social network.
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