But in any case, RS isn't a "nazi group" unless you're Antifa or a literal Chekist. They identify with the UPA tradition and the UPA killed quite some Germans and frustrated their war effort (slavery deportations and food requisitions) during WWII.
they're serious in their "Nazism". It's not any LARP
I'm confused by these statements, despite the quotation marks.
"Nazism" here is just a Russian buzzword and a Russian neologism at that. Until just several years ago they would only ever use "fascism", as in for example to say that "the fascist Germany attacked the White Polish fascists in 1939" (and they still use "White Poland" or "White Finland" because they forever see everything through the prism of their own civil war, and also every foreign enemy was either "fascist" or "imperialist", or at least the latter's local "lackey").
This is also why they called it "Antifa" and not "Antina" when the Komintern organized it in Germany 1932. The targets of Antifa were both "Hitler's fascists" and the "social fascists" (the Social Democrats).
Anyways the RS guys are really into hardcore Ukrainian nationalism, namely they're neo-Banderovites of the UPA tradition (albeit not nearly anywhere as extreme as the UPA have been historically). For which they are killing and dying as we speak, such is this LARP full of accidents.
I'm confused by these statements, despite the quotation marks.
"Nazism" here is just a Russian buzzword and a Russian neologism at that. Until just several years ago they would only ever use "fascism", as in for example to say that "the fascist Germany attacked the White Polish fascists in 1939" (and they still use "White Poland" or "White Finland" because they forever see everything through the prism of their own civil war, and also every foreign enemy was either "fascist" or "imperialist", or at least the latter's local "lackey").
This is also why they called it "Antifa" and not "Antina" when the Komintern organized it in Germany 1932. The targets of Antifa were both "Hitler's fascists" and the "social fascists" (the Social Democrats).
Anyways the RS guys are really into hardcore Ukrainian nationalism, namely they're neo-Banderovites of the UPA tradition (albeit not nearly anywhere as extreme as the UPA have been historically). For which they are killing and dying as we speak, such is this LARP full of accidents.