Comments by "hizzle mobizzle" (@hizzlemobizzle) on "Zelensky An Enemy Of The Left?" video.

It is frustrating to hear the AZov Battalion being brought up without providing proper context. There are only 900 members of the Azov battalion in a country with a population of 44 million.
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There are an estimated 900 members of the Azov battalion in Ukraine. There are an estimated 3000 Klan members in the US. Take from that what you will.
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@deesnutz42069 Problem is you just pulled those numbers out of your ass. The number you are giving is insane. All official counts are at the height there were 2500 members and as of 2022 there were only 900. The numbers were in decline. Due to the larger population there are more neonazis in Russia than there are in Ukraine.
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@Knowledgeequalspower1 I'm not lying about anything. If you know how to use google look it up yourself. Official numbers dropped from a height of 2500 to only 900 by 2022.
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@renatofonte Don't know why you think that is funny, but if you know how to work google look it up yourself.
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@hansfrankfurter2903 Sounds like projections. Never heard of the NAshi in Russia? Maybe heard of this? In 2008-09, the Kremlin was threatened by Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s efforts to build an anti-Putin coalition of democrats and radical nationalists in Russia. In response, the Kremlin began to work with Russkii Obraz (“Russian Image”, or “RO” for short), a hardcore neo-Nazi group best known for its slick journal and its band, Hook from the Right. With the assistance of Kremlin supervisors, RO attacked nationalists who were abandoning the skinhead subculture for Navalny’s anti-Putin coalition. In return, RO was granted privileged access to public space and the media. Its leaders held televised public discussions with state functionaries and collaborated openly with Maksim Mishchenko, a member of parliament from the ruling party. Perhaps most shockingly, RO also hosted a concert by the infamous neo-Nazi band Kolovrat in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, within earshot of the Kremlin. The problem for the Kremlin was that RO’s leader, Ilya Goryachev, was a fervent supporter of the neo-Nazi underground, the skinheads who committed hundreds of racist murders in the second half of the 2000s. The authorities turned a blind eye to RO’s production of a two-hour internet “documentary” titled Russian Resistance, which celebrated these killers as patriotic heroes and called for armed struggle against the regime.
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@hansfrankfurter2903 Not at all. It points out that denazification of Ukraine is not at all the reason for Putin's invasion. If he is so concerned with neonazis then why has he been working with them in Russia for decades? It is just a fact that neonazis groups in Russia are far larger and more influential than they are in Ukraine. Ukraine who by the way is the only nation outside of Israel that has Jewish leaders.
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@hansfrankfurter2903 The origins of this relationship date to the late 1990s, when Russia was shaken by a wave of racist violence committed by neo-Nazi skinhead gangs. After Putin’s accession to the presidency in 2000, his regime exploited this development in two ways. First, it used the neo-Nazi threat to justify the adoption of anti-extremism legislation, a longstanding demand of some Russian liberals. Ultimately, this legislation would be used to prosecute Russian democrats. Second, the Kremlin launched “managed nationalism”, an attempt to co-opt and mobilise radical nationalist militants, including neo-Nazis, as a counterweight to an emerging anti-Putin coalition of democrats and leftist radicals
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@BatMan-cq8gq Facts are there are more neonazis in the US and Russia than there are in Ukraine.
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@deesnutz42069 By the way even though you pulled those numbers out of your ass there are still 44 million people living in Ukraine so impossible even with the numbers you think there are for them to control the population of Ukraine.
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