(“Human rights” being a euphemism for régime change. Unless, of course, you define ‘human’ exclusively as ‘white cishet capitalist man’.)
The Azovites met concurrently with ultra-conservative U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC), who chairs the U.S. Helsinki Commission, and Kevin Rudd, the liberal Ambassador of Australia to the United States and former prime minister. They also met with Paul Massaro, a senior policy advisor to the Helsinki Commission and provocative NAFO celebrity who has proudly championed the Azov movement.
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According to the AADF, one goal of the trip has been “building cooperation with American human rights defenders.” In this regard the mission has been absurdly successful, starting with the Helsinki Commission. Yulia Fedosiuk also held a meeting with Rachel Denber, deputy director of Human Rights Watch, which has in the past singled out the Azov battalion for “credible allegations…of torture and other egregious abuses.” Furthermore, the Azov trio met with Céline Boustani, the president of the Human Rights Foundation, a “right-wing regime-change lobby group that uses rich oligarch money to fund right-wing coup-mongers” according to journalist Ben Norton.
Later the Azov delegation met with Oksana Markarova, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, and discussed future cooperation between the AADF and the Embassy of Ukraine. For this they were joined by Veronika Velch — the wife of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Senstov and the “senior director of advocacy” for Juleanna Glover, “widely considered one of the most powerful women in Washington” according to Wikipedia. Meanwhile, the infamous neocon Bill Kristol, co-founder of the Project for a New American Century, chimed in on Twitter, “It was an honor to meet Sgt. Fedosiuk, Yulia, and Kateryna Prokopenko yesterday in Washington, and truly inspiring to hear from them.”
Events that happened today (August 1):
1878: Konstantinos I. Logothetopoulos, director of the Axis’s collaborationist government in Greece, was born.
1932: Meir Kahane, Hebrew neofascist, was unfortunately born.
1933: The Third Reich executed the antifascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens in Altona.
1936: The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1943: The Axis survived mostly unscathed as the Yankee airforce failed to destroy Romanian oil fields through Operation Tidal Wave.
1944: The Warsaw Uprising against the Axis occupation broke out in Poland.
1946: Moscow executed leaders of the so‐called ‘Russian Liberation Army’ for their collaboration with the Axis.
1967: Richard Johann Kuhn, fascist biochemist, expired.