Andriy Yevheniyovych Biletskyis a Ukrainian far-right politician. He is the leader of political party National Corps. He was the first commander of the volunteer militia Azov Battalion, which he founded in 2014, and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly.

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In a 2007 article, Biletsky stated that "Ukrainian racial social-nationalism" was the ideology of Patriot of Ukraine. During his speech at a 2009 general meeting of the party he said: "How then can we describe our enemy? The general regime in power are oligarchs. Is there anything they have in common? Yes, one thing in common – they are Jews, or their true bosses – Jews – are behind them. Out of one hundred published richest people in Ukraine 92 are Jews, and some others of Tatar origin".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Biletsky indeed made some racist statements in 2006-2010, but he changed his views and hasn't made a single racist statement since 2014. Azov batallion included several Jews from the very beginning, so Biletsky now isn't an anti-Semite.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does any of that have to do with his evaluation of Russian combat abilities?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You shouldn't make articles about nazis, nor ask them what they think about ...anything?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article isn't about Biletskyis. He's just the guy they interviewed on the subject.

If you want to know about how the war is going and the nazi turns out to be a military commander with lots of knowledge about how the war is going, why not ask him?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They talked to a commander—who is a nazi—threw his picture cross armed on the article thumbnail, and never that I saw condemned him as a nazi. The article is about what a nazi thinks.

That normalizes nazis and the article should not have spoken to him nor should OP have posted and article about what a nazi thinks.

He shouldn't even be in any nation's armed forces. He's a nazi.

I heard Ukraine got rid of those.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Biletsky got rid of his anti-Semitism by now.