Putin is against Nazis in Ukraine, but he loves them in Russia

[MNBrewer]

http://americablog.com/2014/03/meet-vladimir-putin-favorite-neo-nazis-russia-crimea.html

A Russia expert said last summer that “there’s quite a bit of violence” in Russia “against people considered to be black.” She added that it’s unsafe for people considered black (basically, anyone not extremely white) to venture outside of Moscow’s city center, and that St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, is “crawling with skinheads.”

A young gay South African is attacked by a Russian neo-Nazi from “Occupy Pedophilia,” who filmed the abduction, then posted the video on Russian social media site VK.com
One particularly brazen group of Russian neo-Nazis goes by the name of “Occupy Pedophilia.” In spite of their name, Occupy Pedophilia’s main focus has little to do with pedophiles, and a lot to do with gay-bashing.

Occupy Pedophilia is openly neo-Nazi, its top officers publicly extol Adolf Hitler, and the organization claims credit for nearly 1,500 kidnappings across Russia and Ukraine in the 18 months it’s been in existence.

The organization, which claims to have at least 30 affiliates, is not simply tacitly tolerated by the Putin regime, the Russian government, after denying the organization’s existence, turned around and defended the neo-Nazis’ anti-gay, anti-Semitic and racist kidnapping spree across greater Russia.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. The pawns.

Jews and even gays, are getting slapped about in this fiasco as well. The Jews are getting the "well, they are the cause" to "they support Neo-Nazi Ukrainians/they support fascist Putin." It is dizzying. I have noticed some who belittled GLBT folks for daring to speak against the Russian anti-gay law, are now "concerned" about our civil liberties in regards to the Ukrainian regime. Personally, I find the situation very confusing, and am wary of both sides. I am not even certain I know what the will of the people is at the moment because of so many conflicting reports.

[MNBrewer]

2. Just saw this posted by a facebook friend who is Ukrainian.

http://www.jta.org/2014/03/03/news-opinion/world/ukraine-chief-rabbi-accuses-russians-of-staging-anti-semitic-provocations