By Theodore Shoebat and Walid Shoebat
There is a strange phenomenon taking place in Europe, and regardless of its surreal nature, it seems to be happening under the nose of the masses, and that is a return of Hitlerian thought. We see this most clearly in Ukraine where neo-Nazi soldiers are the strongest force within the Ukrainian military. The Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi unit praised in Ukraine as heroes and which glorifies the Ukrainian historical figures who collaborated with the Third Reich, began as a paramilitary group of nationalists, but is now a massive military core, consisting of over 50,000 troops loyal to Azov’s founder, Andriy Biletsky who holds the call sign, “White Leader.” In September of 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky promoted the neo-Nazi Biletsky to the position of Brigadier General over the Third Army Corps, the largest formation within the Ukrainian military, consisting of around 40,000 troops. So, the largest corps within the Ukrainian military is commanded by a neo-Nazi who once said that Ukraine must “lead the white nations of the world in a final crusade for their survival, a crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” If this reality is not seen as a sign that Ukraine has a powerful Nazi presence in its highest ranks, then when Nazism seriously revives in other parts of the West, it will happen absent of any detection by the ears of the general public. In other words, if we are not willing to see this brightest of red flags, then the crimson red banner of fascism is destined to be planted in the heart of Europe yet again.
Andriy Biletsky (center), celebrating the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, Andriy Melnyk
Amongst these Ukrainian nationalists, there is little love for the country’s Jewish leader, Zelensky. Nazis with NATO training and weapons, numbering in at least the tens of thousands, in a country in the midst of a brutal war that has seen countless deaths and its country brought to ruins, and a Jewish leader who is in the position to be blamed for everything wrong that is happening; all of this is the perfect storm for a Nazi leader to be praised as a hero of Ukraine, who fix the wrongs by the “the Jew” Zelensky and to takeover the country. All of this destruction, of this death, all of the robbery of the Ukrainian people by corrupt oligarchs tied to Zelensky, all of these Nazis with guns and high ranks in the military, all of this frenzied nationalism, and on top of it all there is a Jew to blame for every woe. It is a perfect for a Nazi takeover of Ukraine.
It is the most fitting grounds for a Nazi revival, wherein fanatic worshippers of the cult of Bandera can point to the devastation of the country and all of the ruined buildings and point the finger to a Jew and say, ‘You see these Jews, Hitler and our Ukrainian forefathers who joined him were right to slaughter these swindlers.” Have we forgotten the fact that the greatest single massacre ever done during the Holocaust was in Ukraine, in the ravine of Babi Yar in Kiev, and that it was done by Germans and Ukrainian nationalists who happily took the opportunity of German occupation to hunt down as many Jews as they could find? Past actions are the greatest predictor of future actions, and with such a history and with such a current situation, it would not be surprising to see the rhyming of such a bloody past in the future. In regards to Biletsky and the Azov Battalion now consisting of 50,000 troops, Yevhen Bekrenev, an artillery reconnaissance officer with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said: “I think this is very dangerous. If Biletsky gains control of this instrument, it will be a huge military force that will carry out the political orders of an unelected person”. So there are already people in the Ukrainian military saying that the neo-Nazi Bilsetsky and his loyal followers can take over the country.
Military expert Dmitry Astrakhan said that the Azov Battalion “is entirely focused on loyalty to the organization, to the party, and to the ‘White Leader’ [Biletsky] personally. The role of the Ukrainian state, the president, or any other organs there is indirect, and at any moment, if a conflict arises between party loyalty and loyalty to the state, party loyalty will likely prevail”. In other words, the Nazis have a state-within-a-state in Ukraine. This was expressed by Dimitry Yarosh, a neo-Nazi and the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, who declared this threat to the government in Kyiv in 2014 after the Eurodmaidan revolution: “We’re all well aware that I can send several battalions to Kyiv and resolve the government issue. That’s real. Our citizens dislike the government so much that it would be easy for us to do.” Remember, the current regime in Ukraine was founded on a coup accelerated by ultra-nationalists, which means that it can find itself being toppled by the very forces that ushered in its very existence. This was on the verge of happening in 2015 when the neo-Nazis threatened to overthrow Petro Poroshenko, the very guy who got into power thanks to the neo-Nazi backed Euromaidan revolution in 2014. After a local politician’s bodyguards got into a bloody gun battle with Yarosh’s paramilitary organization, Right Sector, in which three people were killed, Poroshenko called for the group to be disarmed. In response, Dimitry Yarosh mobilized his 10,000 strong neo-Nazi paramilitary against Poroshenko’s government, referring to it as “an inner occupying force,” the same words that were used when describing Yanukovych’s government before they overthrew it. Which means that the Nazis who helped found the current government in Ukraine at the Euromaidan, can overthrow this very current government. What are these Nazis aspiring for? They want a Hitler to rule over Ukraine. They are awaiting their fuhrer, their messiah. Dmytro Riznychenko, a far-right writer in Ukraine, told Voice of America in 2015: “The only issue is to find the right figure to be the country’s dictator and savior.” They are looking for a Hitler, not a Zelensky. Who is the real enemy of Ukraine’s Nazis? This was explained by the Brigadier General of the biggest formation in Ukraine’s military, Andriy Biletsky, in 2009:
“How can we describe our enemy? The authorities and the oligarchs. Do they have anything in common? Yes, they have one thing in common: they are Jews, or behind them are their real masters — Jews.”
Several Jewish oligarchs just recently made it easier for Ukraine’s ultranationalists to justify their ideology. There have been several Jewish oligarchs in Ukraine, deeply tied to Zelensky, who have been in the news lately, and not for positive reasons. There is Timur Mindich, a Jewish businessman in Ukraine who is close to Zelensky. In the latter part of his presidential campaign, Zelensky rode inside Mindich’s armored Mercedes, and in February of 2021, Zelensky broke Covid protocols to party for his birthday at a private setting hosted by Mindich. Mindich was also the co-owner of Kvartal 95, a production company partially founded by Zelensky before he became president. Mindich ran many companies that were getting contracts from Ukraine’s Defense Ministry for drones and missile systems. But in 2025 he was at the center of a massive corruption scheme. Mindich was effectively in control over Ukraine’s government energy company, Energoatom and profited greatly by using it to racket in kickbacks. Anytime a private company sought to sell parts for Ukraine’s power facilities, it had to pay a 10-15% kickback to Mindich and his gang of racketeers. If the companies did not pay the kickback, then the full transaction was put on complete pause and this would halt the delivery of the parts that were needed to repair the power plants after they were hit by Russian bombardment. During Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, these halts caused delays to the repairs as Energoatom would then seek for companies willing to pay the bribes. It was only when the bribes were paid that the needed parts, transformers, and specific equipment to restore power were delivered. The racket gang of Mindich did not care about the ruined power plants, but rather their kickbacks. In one instance, Mindich’s gang was complaining that a $90,000 kickback for a 3-billion Hryvnia (over $66,000) project to construct concrete barriers for the protection of transformer substations was too low. They thus demanded that a new 4-billion Hryvnia (over $88,000) project for the same barriers would not be completed until they could dictate the racketeering terms and demand a 15% kickback.
Mindich and his gang ended up laundering $100 million through this scheme. One could argue that Zelensky had nothing to do with this. But he did. Zelensky was openly working to strip the authority away from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), which led the investigation on Mindich’s racketeering. On July 22nd of 2025, Zelensky passed a law giving the Prosecutor General power over NABU. Under this law, the Prosecutor General would have the authority to shut down any of NABU’s investigations at will. At the same time that the Rada (parliament) was passing this bill, Zelensky had the authorities raid the detectives working for NABU who were conducting the investigation on Mindich. The public outrage and pressure from Western countries to rescind this edict curtailing the authority of NABU was so great that just nine days after passing the ruling Zelensky had to reverse it. Nonetheless, Zelensky deliberately worked to shield Mindich from justice. But this racketeer already evaded arrest when he fled to Israel.
Now, one can imagine how the Nazis in Ukraine can paint this whole picture: Mindich the Jew was laundering money while delaying the repairing of electrical grids in the middle of a national crisis wherein Ukrainian people need power in the midst of a war, enriching himself on the suffering of the Ukrainian people like a parasite. Zelensky, another Jew, protected Mindich by stripping away the authority, and having the police raid employees of NABU. Mindich the Jew flees to Israel, the land of the Jews. A picture can be presented thusly: While the Ukrainian people suffered, and while its men are slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands on the battlefield, Jews are profiteering; it is thus only the true nationalists with blood rooted in Ukraine’s soil (and not Israel’s) who can save the nation from her enemies both external (the Russian) and domestic (the Jew), not people who have blood ties to Israel and a foreign tribe — the Jews and not the true Ukrainian Slavic people. Thus, Ukraine is ripe for the picking for a Nazi takeover. There is another story that adds to this tale of betrayal: Igor Kolomoiskii, a Jew, and his partner-in-crime Hennadiy Boholyubov (also a Jew) embezzled $5.5 billion from Ukraine’s PrivatBank between the years 2013 and 2016. The Ukrainian government refilled the bank after this robbery by injecting it with $5.5 billion in taxpayer money. Between 2012 and 2019 (when Kolomoiskii was robbing PrivatBank) around $41million was sent from companies with ties to Kolomoiskii (including PrivatBank) to offshore companies founded by Zelensy and his business partners in his media company, Kvartal 95, in the British Virgin Islands, Belize and Cyprus.
The scandals of Timur Mindich and Igor Kolomoiskii make for perfect propaganda for the Nazis: As the Ukrainian people suffer, get killed, starve and endure the harsh winter in the midst of power outages caused by Russian strikes and prolonged because a Jewish fraudster — Mindich — wants to rob the Ukrainian people, as all these dreadful thing are happening, the Jews rob the Ukrainian people and our tied to the Jewish president Zelensky. The ire of Ukraine’s current Nazis against the Jews who have positions in power has already been made known. For example in 2017 a member of Ukrainian parliament (Rada) Nadiya Savchenko, said: “I have nothing against Jews. I do not like ‘kikes.’ Jews possess 90 percent of the power when they only account for 2 percent of the population.” Ukraine is ripe for the picking for a fascist takeover. We do not say this out of nowhere, but from historical precedent.
The story of the robbing of Ukraine parallel the the robbing of Germany after World War One. Germany was devastated, with millions of soldiers dead, with many widows and fatherless children. And during this horrid situation, there were two major scandals that took place: the Sklarek scandal and the Barmat scandal. In the latter of the two cases, Julius Barmat and his brothers, David, Isaac, Henry, and Solomon, led a massive fraud scheme of the Prussian State Bank, the German Postal Department (Reichspost) and numerous other banks. The Barmats were in the business of importing food into Germany, but they were also currency speculators, exploiting both the food shortages and inflation that was going on in a Germany devastated by the First World War. Julius Barmat and his brothers were able to gain 14.4 million Reichsmarks through loan fraud from the Prussian State Bank, with the help of German officials. The Barmats invested these fraudulently gained funds into currency speculation. But eventually, in 1924, the Barmats’ investment company collapsed and the Prussian State Bank lost millions in US dollars as a result. In December of 1924, Julius Barmat and his brothers were arrested. An investigation revealed that numerous Social Democrat politicians were involved and received kickbacks and bribes by the Barmats. One of these politicians was the former chancellor Gustav Bauer, a member of parliament, a Social Democrat and someone who was on the board of a Barmat owned company. The Prussian government conducted an investigation that showed that while Bauer was chancellor he secured numerous food deals for the Barmats and got money as a result from the Jewish brothers. After he left office, Bauer secured a scrap metal deal for the brothers and, in exchange, received money. Bauer used his connections in the Prussian government to lobby bank directors at the Prussian State Bank to give low interest loans to the Barmats’ holding companies. Baur would say that Julius Barmat was a trustworthy man to get the banks to feel safe about loaning millions to the Barmats. But it was all fraud. Bauer admitted, under oath, that he did help the Barmats get deals and loans but repeatedly denied being given any money from the Barmats. But this was revealed to be a lie when the right-wing newspaper, Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, leaked out a letter in February of 1925 that showed Bauer arguing with Barmat over his pay. He wanted more money and listed the exact amounts of money he had received and even the dates in which he received them. The reveal forced Bauer to resign from both the parliament and the Social Democrat Party.
And then there was the Sklarek scandal which began in 1924 but ended up becoming a national story after the perpetrators were arrested in 1929 and were brought to trial in 1931, just two years before Hitler took power. Three Jewish brothers — Max, Willi and Leo Sklarek — made millions off of loan fraud while bribing Weimar government officials with kickbacks. Between the years 1924 and 1929, the Jewish brothers made their textile and clothing business, Slarek Brothers, into a center for getting millions of Reichsmarks from the city of Berlin through fraud. In 1927, the brothers got for themselves a contract with the city of Berlin that agreed that they would be the primary suppliers of uniforms to hospital staff, police officers, municipal workers and streetcar operators. Once they gained their monopoly in the city of Berlin, the Sklarek brothers began to bill the city with inflatedly fake orders that were never manufactured nor delivered in order to rob the city of millions of Reichsmarks. They would take legitimate orders and then multiply them on paper so as to charge Berlin for thousands of products when the reality was that only a fraction had actually been delivered. The Sklarek brothers did not do this without the help of corrupt city officials. Administrators working for the city of Berlin conspired with the brothers by writing their signatures on their intake receipts to (falsely) confirm that the fake shipments made it to municipal warehouses. The Sklarek brothers used their fake success to then engage in loan fraud. They went to the Berlin Stadtbank and showed their fraudulent invoices as a way to prove that their business was successful so that they could secure loans. The Sklareks would even use the same group of false invoices several times to gain loans. By 1929, the brothers got over 12 to 18 million Reichsmarks through bank fraud. In September of 1929, the Berliner Stadtbank conducted an internal audit which showed that millions in loans was being backed by false invoices. The Barmats were arrested that year, tried in 1931 and sentenced in 1932 to 4-6 years in prison each. How were they able to steal so much money from between the years 1924 and 1929? Because they were bribing politicians of the center-left Social Democratic Party. This conspiracy between corrupt officials and Jewish fraudsters was another sensational story that grabbed the attention of the public and which was pounced upon by both traditional conservatives and the far-right Nazi Party. The Nazis would point to the story to show how Jews were robbing Germany with the help of liberal politicians, and that therefore the people should vote for Nazis. The Sklarek brothers’ arrest in 1929 happened around the time of the Great Depression, which meant that a perfect storm was gathering together, one in which economic hardship rose up tremendously and alongside this there were politicians conspiring with Jewish fraudsters to help them rob the German people just for some kickbacks. This sparked a political and spiritual conflagration which got the masses to the path of extremism as their souls were taken by the words of the Nazis. In November of 1929, in the midst of the Sklarek scandal being the biggest topic of political campaigns, the Nazis would win 13 seats in the Berlin election. As we all know, the Nazis eventually took over Germany by 1933. Jewish fraudsters robbing the German people, government officials helping those fraudsters, after Germany suffered a miserable defeat in the First World War in which it lost millions of its citizens and substantial territory, provided the perfect storm to help bring the Nazis to power on a wave of hysterical popularity.
The question is, will the same thing happen in Ukraine as a response to similar situations: Ukraine suffering heavy casualties and losing its eastern half, and on top of this, Jewish fraudsters — Timur Mindic and Igor Kolomoiskii (with ties to government officials, and even Zelensky himself) rob the Ukrainian people. If Germany had its Sklarek and Barmat scandals, Ukraine has its Mindich and Kolomoiskii scandals that could be capitalized upon by the country’s nazis. Former chief of staff for Ukraine’s neo-nazi Azov Battalion, Bohdan Krotevych, warned, in regards to the Mindich scandal, that if the government continues to “cover up corrupt friends,” then “the people themselves will take responsibility into their own hands.” This means violence. He went on to say: “When it comes to the existence of the state, the people have every right to take responsibility”. What does “take responsibility” mean? Coming from a neo-Nazi, nothing good. If Zelensky makes any concessions of land to the Russians, it will spark a nazi backlash in Ukraine. When Zelensky, back in 2019, was talking about withdrawing Ukrainian troops from the frontlines in Donbass, Andriy Biletskyi warned the Jewish president that 10,000 Azov fighters will show up on the frontlines and defy his orders: “if you decide to carry out these threats, and we now have the first signs, to throw veterans out of there, then instead of a few dozen people, next week there will be a thousand. If a thousand doesn’t work out, there will be 10 thousand.” Biletskyi is now the head of Ukraine’s Third Army Corps, the country’s largest military formation. He leads tens of thousands of soldiers who see him as a hero. His preeminence in the military and his nazi ideology really are a sign of a coming nazi takeover of Ukraine.