Azov Battalionen: De få, de stolte, de psykopatiske.
- Olena Semenyaka - 'minister for kommunikation og ideologi' Azov
[Redaktørens note: Vi genudgiver dette i tråd med vores mission om at give vores læsere et bredt billede af denne konflikt, informationskrigen generelt, og hvad motivationerne er på niveau med de 'frivillige' brigader og deres relaterede sociale bevægelser. Det ser ud til at være skrevet af Semenyaka selv, baseret på hendes tidligere forfatterskab, som jeg er bekendt med fra før krigen. Et afslørende tegn er til dels hendes ejendommelige brug af ordet 'ontologisk' i forbindelse med en ny national social virkelighed i Ukraine. Hun er ekspert i kontinental idealisme fra det 19. århundrede, og referencen er eksistentiel og specifikt heideggersk.
Referencen til en 'mand med en ny struktur med en kvalitativt ny identitet' refererer til Nietzschean 'New Man' eller Übermensch fra Således talte Zarathustra, som har transcenderet værdiansættelser I sin egenskab af førkrigstidens ukrainske kulturklub havde hun samarbejdet til dels med A. Dugins eurasiske bevægelse. De er nu på hver sin side af denne konflikt; deres tilhængere skyder bogstaveligt talt på hinanden. - Flores]
THE AZOV MOVEMENT
War actualizes the spirit of the past, not only tests our own. Since the onset of a new historical era, we seized an opportunity to stand at the forefront of myth making. Time was passing, and we were changing with it. We were growing: from two dozen of activists in the Maidan to two thousand of soldiers in the special purpose brigade. From several firearms gained in the battle to our own tank.
Relying solely on our own strength and capabilities, we have managed to build our own military and public power, ontologically new for Ukraine. Within a half a year of intensive work was created more than a highly battle-worthy brigade of fighters on the front: around the military unit was created a powerful framework that includes a number of political, social, environmental, cultural and educational initiatives.
To ensure the operation of such a broad organization, were involved hundreds of volunteers and activists. Predominantly these are the initiative young people with a similar ideological and ideological way of thinking. Namely through the common understanding of the historical context of our time, a man of our structure himself understands the need for further development.
That's why AZOV has its own Officer School for training the military commanders in accordance with the standards of NATO, the training camp for new recruits who pass the final exam "Azov - Spartan," its own engineering group, which carries out repair and modernization of military equipment, Drone School as the "eyes" of intelligence, the volunteer group of foreign instructors with extensive combat experience, and Natiocracy School for political education of the activists of Civil Corps.
Previously, the name of "Azovians" was attributed only to the fighters of the combat unit, now the "Azovian" is a man of a new structure who represents a qualitatively new identity. Each "Azovian" carries a trail of the combat achievements of the military unit, social activism, political ambitions and ideological-political vector - the spirit of the military family AZOV.
Notice in the background the NATO, Azov Battalion, and Nazi flags
Kommentar: Interesting that Azov's recruiting literature, complete with undertones of Nazi-inspired philosophy would include, as part of its appeal, aspirations to "NATO standards". One could only deduce that the author of the above piece considers NATO to be the standard bearer of Nazi-like military efficiency wedded to Nazi-like politics.
And Nietzsche has probably just rolled over in his grave yet again to see how his ideas and language have been subverted for ill.
See: The Nazi Perversion of Nietzsche