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| Igor Mazur: Leader of 'Right Sector' at Maidan. |
By Matthew Schofield
The man Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast as one of Europe’s potential new Adolf Hitlers is a little late for coffee on this Saturday morning.
Igor Mazur, or Topolya (Poplar) as he’s known because he’s 6’7”, is the leader of the Ukrainian Right Sector at Maidan, Kiev’s Independence Square. The Right Sector are the radical nationalists of this Ukrainian revolution. There are others: the right-wing Svoboda (Freedom) party, for one, which has an actual political following -- 12 percent of the vote in the last elections. It used to identify itself as a national socialist movement, just like the Nazis.
Watch the 'Right Sector' in Action
This video was captured from RT (Russia Today, English). Click here to find out more about some of Ukraine's new leaders.
It's too bad we can't get footage like this from CNN or MSNBC.
It's too bad we can't get footage like this from CNN or MSNBC.
Russian fear, however, seems to be aimed at “the thugs and fascists from Maidan.” That is aimed at the Right Sector.
Mazur is their leader. Putin insists they are part of the group now calling the shots in the Ukrainian government, pulling strings from behind a curtain. In Crimea, Russian-backed political billboards for Sunday’s referendum on whether to secede from Ukraine clearly equate the Right Sector to Nazis. One depicts a Ukrainian future as wrapped in barbed wire and stamped with a Swastika.
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