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Ukraine: Neo-nazi became victim of his own aggression
Antifascistska diya 27.04.2009 23:49 Themen: Antifa Weltweit
Ukraine: On the 17th of April in Odessa 15 nazi-skinheads with the use
of bottles and rocks attacked 5 members of the anti-fascist movement.
Nazis ran up to the antifascists sitting on a bench near the “Orech”
club and started shouting threads and Nazis slogans and started the
fighting. Earlier activists of «antifa» were often threatened by
Nazi-skinheads; anti-fascists were victims of nazi-attacks. Their fore
they realized that any conflict provoked by Nazis could be fatal.
Protecting their lives “antifa” had to use a pen-knife (means of
self-protection not prohibited by the low) Nazi-skinhead Maksim Chaika
–was wounded. He did not get proper medical aid and died. If the
antifascists had not fighted back protecting themselves they would have
been in morgue. Ultrarights tray to make benefit of the insolent by
fouls presenting the facts and cynically lying to the publicity.
Ultrarights propagandists declair that killing had political subtext.
Actually 5 antifa had to resist 15 aggressive nazi-skinhead attack. The
police confirm the fixed number of antifashiscts. Nazis are truing to
present Maksim Chaika as are victim however it was him , and his
friends who started the fighting.

It is well known that Chaika himself and another Odessa Nazis often
threatened antifa activists. Were collecting info even addresses and
made attacks antifascists. Naturally Nazi can reject an unfavorable
facts replacing them with their own falsification.

Mass-media also reproduce the myth that killed Maksim Chaika was an
activist off are ‘’patriotic organization’’ it is well known that
social organization ‘’Sich’’ is Nazi-skinhead organization who were
make onslaughts on racism basics. Criminal reports from all Ukraine
have more and more facts about killings on racism basics. People who
perform disagreement wish antihuman ideology of Nazism take even bigger
risk to fall victims of the street terror.
Bands of neo-Nazis do not keep in secret they are planning to revenge-
we can see this info online: “We must do everything possible that the
least of over blood to be shed and the most blood to be shed by the
enemy. Our enemies should be killed first then our losses would be
minimal”.

Meanwhile the ultrarights parties try to make political accets
hypocritically mentioning the repressions of the “Ukrainian patriots”.
It is worth mentioning that politicians of the opposite (pro-Russian
party “Rodina” and politician Igor Markov) – are following the
pragmatic aims. They preset the incident as a conflict of pro-Russian
and Ukrainian right radicals. But Ukrainian “antifa” is not related to
any political force. More than that a party promoting national
superiority could provoke only negative feelings of antifa members.

The fact that antifa are presented as extremists is another myth
that should be denied. Mass-media keep silent about extremist nature of
neo-Nazism ideology that rejects value of human life. Mass-media forget
about terrifying statistics of killing on basics of racism hatred. It
is terrible that people who do not agree with Nazis can’t count on any
protection of the authorities or society. We should add that reaction
of the antifa- activists for aggression had legal foundation: part 3
paragraph 27 of the constitution of Ukraine provides the right of the
individuals to protect their own lives and health and also lives and
health of other individuals from the illegal actions; according to
provision 36 of the Criminal Low of Ukraine the above motioned of the
antifascists is consider as a necessary self-protection. The
antifascists knew that the Nazis were more numerous and that they were
armed with bottles and rocks so fighting was inevitable.

We – the activists of antifascist movement – express our sincere
condolences to Maksim Chaika’s family and relatives. Those who make
fools of young people with the neo-nazi ideology and trend to gain
money, power and glory are really guilty of Maksim Chaika’s death.
We demand from Odessa police comprehensive investigation of the
incident and the conformation of the fact of necessary self-protection
on the part of antifa

We demand from all mass-media to resist all the provocations and to
objectively present the event because the destinies of antifascists who
are involved in this incident depends on this. More than this
mass-media should oppose attends of definite political forces to cash
on Maksim Chaika’s death.

Pavlo Shevchenko