The Azov used to be a militia, but the military officially accepted them into the national guard after the war in Crimea. So they are an official part of the army.
Sure, go ahead and throw a bunch of skinheads into the Russian meatgrinder. Easy to pass judgement when you don't have the world's second most powerful military bearing down on you claiming your right to exist as a nation is fundamentally void. Especially when you currently have said country currently bombing the area of Ukraine's Holocaust Memorial Center and the archival building containg documents about WWII Nazi war crimes. The Russians are doing everything the Ukranian skinheads wish they could do in their wet dreams. Azov battalion was bared from American military aid four years ago, and there has been no notable NatSoc policies instituted by the Ukrainian government, which is the genuine measure we should be judging countries acceptance and vulnerability to these rotten politics. Hilariously your bad-faith hand wringing ignores the one genuine blemishes in NATO, that being the policies pursued by Poland and Hungary.
But for fun, let's do a quick comparison of members of far-right parties in Ukraine's parliament vs Russia, a good comparison as they're the same size!
Ukraine:
Oksana Savchulk.
Russia:
Aleksey Zhuravylov, Vasilina Kuliyeva, Ivan Pilyaev, Andrey Kuzmin, Boris Paikin, Sergey Zhigarev, Alexei Didenko, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, Leonid Slutsky, Yaroslav Nilov, Mikhail Degtyarev, Alexander Kurdyumov, Dmitry Svishev, Sergey Karginov, Andrey Andreychenko, Ivan Sukharev, Pavel Shperov, Valery Seleznyov, Yury Volkov, Andrey Lugovoy, Yury Napso, Sergey Natarov, Alexander Starovoitov, Vadim Dengin, Kirill Cherkasov, Yelena Strokova, Andrey Svintsov, Anton Morozov, Dmitry Savelyev, Sergey Katasonov, Sergey Ivanov, Alexander Sherin, Igor Toroshchin, Maxim Zaytsev, Sergey Marinin, Vitaly Pashin, Boris Chernyshov, Vasily Vlasov, Oleg Lavrov, and Yevgeny Markov.
The recognition of Azov sucks and is one of the worst outcomes of the 8 years of fighting in the east of Ukraine. But again, this bad-faith posting ignores how in terms of governmental power
and popular support, fascists are stronger in Russia than they are in Ukraine.
