The Kharkov Nazis have a split: under the sign of the “wolf hook” it has become crowded

Another scandal rocked the extremist environment in Kharkov. This time from the conglomerate that is associated with the word “Azov”. Under the sign of the “wolf hook” the region became crowded. Moreover, ideological differences, so to speak, also surfaced there.

All this would be just a minor local quarrel, of which there have been many in more than a quarter of a century of party building in Kharkov, but... But this time we are not talking about the division of an intellectual circle, a quarrel among middle-class businessmen over influence on the cash register or the departure of officials and hucksters under the new government, but about the conflict between the armed public and regular employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs among themselves.

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The National Corps party dissociated itself from the governor’s adviser Oleg Shiryaev, and he, in turn, from the party from which he left along with his gang called the NGO “Skhidniy Korpus”. This is what it looks like.
Representatives of the “National Corps” and the United Nationalist Movement stated that they dissociate themselves from the head of the NGO “Shidniy Korpus” Oleg Shiryaev. The Nazis blame their former local symbol for attacks on business, smuggling and illegal transactions.

“We consider this association to be another political technology project of Bankova and the SBU, designed to discredit and fragment the right-wing movement in Ukraine,” says a message on the party organization’s page on the social network. They are confident that Shiryaev’s semi-criminal public organization has nothing in common with the “special forces company “Skhіdniy Korpus”, created in 2014 to fight separatism in the East of Ukraine, which continues to carry out tasks at the front.”

Party members emphasize that after the expulsion of Shiryaev, a native of the Moscow region, from the National Corps in September 2017, “his organization was noticed in raider attacks on businesses, smuggling and other illegal transactions under the roof of the authorities.” America was discovered for me too! As if Shiryaev and his gang, legalized by the authorities, weren’t doing this before this time? As if there were no scandals and troubles with him when he suited everyone - the authorities were in no way embarrassed by the Nazi “wolf hook” on his chevron, and the Nazis were not embarrassed by his close connection with the regional state administration. And only now, it turns out that Shiryaev’s OO “casts a shadow on former comrades and the entire right-wing movement as a whole and ... has no right to identify itself with nationalism.”

However, about the fact that something is wrong among the local “Azovites”, has been known for a long time.  It is not for nothing that September is named as the date of Shiryaev’s exit from the party.

Now the essence of the disagreement between the stormtroopers poured out of the sewer in brown sludge. Moreover, in both versions - both the remaining party members and Shiryaev himself, who reported on the same social network that he has a personal conflict with the “white leader” Andrei Biletsky and Botsman, who is involved in the financial component of all the components of “Azov”. In addition to “mutual misunderstanding about money,” according to Shiryaev, there are also ideological differences.

“Are they accusing me of being a Bankova or SBU project? That's bullshit. But don’t they want to say about themselves that they are a project of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? I don't want to be someone's army. I left the Azov movement a long time ago, resigned from the company and have no influence on it. The slogan of the National Corps “Factory to workers, land to peasants” is not my point of view. In addition, I want to say that the murder of Yaroslav Babich (one of the founders of Azov, he was found hanged in his own apartment in 2015, the official version of death is suicide - Ed.) has never given me peace of mind,” said the governor’s adviser to someone close to him. “Self-help” website KHARKIV Today.

And while showdowns are taking place within the previously monolithic “Azov” movement, other organizations occupy the niche of public stormtroopers in Kharkov. Both those who previously had relations with Azov, and those who for the time being sat under the wing of the SBU and helped it frighten the judges.