Black Men ("Il Giornale", Italy)

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The core of the civil war in Ukraine, which is becoming more bloody with each passing day, is considered to be a dedicated unit to Kiev, which accepts volunteers from Italy, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic countries, and France. The 250 fighters of the Azov battalion, famous for its Nazi sentiment, are fighting pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. A dozen foreign volunteers who swear that no one pays them a penny, have already taken the oath. Another 24 fighter should arrive soon, and a Croatian war veteran in Kiev, Frenchman Gaston Besson, in a post published on Facebook, urged the rest to follow their example. For several days, we watched the Azov battalion, taken under control by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, from Berdyansk, a small town in the east of the country.

Among European volunteers is Italian Francesco F. (Francesco F.), who left his quiet life as a manager and went to fight alongside Ukrainians against the pro-Russian rebels. Swedish sniper Mikael Skillt (Mikael Skillt) - one of those few who dare not hide his face and for whose head the separatists have appointed a monetary reward. Among the volunteers there is also a Russian, who dreams of overthrowing the Kremlin government. Because of the color of their form and connection with the ultra-right organizations of Ukraine and Europe, they are called "black men."

Italian volunteer

A sturdy man in a bulletproof vest, a black cap comforter on his face and dark sunglasses gets down on one knee with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his hands, carefully takes aim and pulls the trigger. Then he gets up and changes the clip to continue shooting. 53-year-old Francesco is an Italian of the Azov battalion, whom everyone here simply calls “don” or “uncle”.

“I happened to be among the barricades of Maidan. The people's revolution fascinated me, - says a volunteer in a black beret. - How hundreds of young activists of the Right Sector with medieval shields in their hands were fascinated, and grandmothers who brought them tea in 17-degree frost, and girls pouring gasoline into empty bottles to make Molotov cocktails out of them.

In 70 in Pisa, he served first in the National Avant-garde (Italian neo-fascist organization - approx. Lane), and then in the Youth Front, the youth organization of the Italian Social Movement. A lawyer by training, before the Kiev events blinded him, Francesco worked as a manager.

After the annexation of the Crimea to Russia and the pro-Kremlin uprising in the east of Ukraine, he decided to join the recruits and fight on the side of the nascent International Legion. “When I felt the danger, something clicked in my head,” he explains. - As they say in Italy, “finita la comedy”. What was going on went beyond any game. And what could I do? Back home and throw fellow barricades Maidan? "

His baptism of fire took place on June 13, when the battle for Mariupol, a city on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov, was in the hands of the rebels: “We were moving forward. We managed to capture anti-aircraft artillery and crush the barricades of pro-Russian activists. ” One of his Ukrainian friends, known as the Legionnaire, was wounded. Young Ukrainian divisions and some ultra-right fans of Dynamo Kiev compare what is happening with the events of the Roman Empire and Europe during the era of the Crusades. On the chest and shoulders of "black men" you can often see tattoos in the form of runic and Celtic symbols. Only sometimes they leave their base to go, but they never do it alone: ​​only in pairs and always with weaponswhich is carried in sports bags.

“We are volunteers. We do not even pay with cigarettes, - emphasizes the Italian on the eastern front. - I dreamed of a similar experience all my life. We want to see a united Ukraine, but at the same time independent, free from the influence of both Russia and NATO or the false values ​​of the European Union. ”

Recruiter

“I am not a mercenary, and certainly not a secret agent. I am not hiding. I call myself a revolutionary, an idealist, who went through two wars and three uprisings in Croatia, Bosnia, Burma, Laos, Suriname. " These are the words of 46-year-old Gaston Besson, a veteran of advanced fronts. Green eyes, gray hair: it can be found on the Maidan among the remnants of the barricades. He was born in Mexico, his parents are French, when he was a teenager, he left school and went to Colombia in search of gold. His mother, engaged in the production of wine in Burgundy, put him before a choice: either he takes part in the family business, or goes into the army. Besson preferred to spend five years in the landing troops and special forces. Then the French government unofficially sent him to Southeast Asia, where his baptism of fire took place. In Croatia, during the war against the Serbs, he was wounded three times. Although Besson himself does not like this definition, he is still a recruiter for European volunteers who wish to fight against supporters of federalization.
“Many come from the Nordic countries, such as Sweden, Finland, Norway. There are plenty of people willing from Italy too, admits the Frenchman. “And also Croats who want to follow in the footsteps of their fathers who fought in the 90.”

On the basis of the Azov battalion in Berdyansk, everyone knows the Incredible Mike - a man with a beard and blond hair, like a Viking. Former shooter of the Swedish army, he decided to come to Ukraine as a sniper after seeing the bloody bouts of Maidan in the photos. Russophiles assigned him a reward of 5 thousand euros, and this is a very impressive amount in these parts. But he himself only apathetically shrugs his shoulders: “I am not afraid of them. If they need my head so much, let them come and take it. ”
Muran, a young Russian who would like to overthrow the Moscow regime, is also fighting in the International Legion. “They won't take me alive, I'd rather blow myself up,” the masked young man swears from the Urals.

French veteran Besson says: “Every day I get dozens of emails from those who want to join the fighting, but I refuse 75% of them. Anyone who wants to join our ranks will have to pay for a plane ticket himself. And then go through a short training course in Kiev before they are sent to the line of fire. We do not need fanatics, people eager to kill, drug addicts or alcoholics. We need idealists who fight for the idea, not mercenaries, for whom it all comes down to money. ”

In Croatia in the era of the war of independence 1991, he led five hundred soldiers who came from France, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy. During the bloody battles in the vicinity of Vukovar, Croatian Stalingrad, he received an order to evacuate the civilians of a small village that was threatened by an attack of the Serbs. When his people were leaving, Besson suddenly heard the cry of a little girl. “I was desperate to find her, while my soldiers were shouting that it was time to leave,” recalls the Frenchman. - In the end, I still managed to find her, she was hiding, because she was very scared. I took her to a safe place. ” That girl was just 6 years old. In 2007, Besson returned to Croatia, to the places where he had once fought. In one bar, he met a girl named Ivan, who was much younger than him. She subsequently became his wife. Her parents told her that a foreigner had saved her during the war. “Only after a while we understood,” says Besson, “that Ivana is the same girl who wept among the ruins near Vukovar.”

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  1. +32
    10 July 2014 05: 47
    Well, nothing, nothing. Not for the first time all European evil spirited against us. We will add these. Enough Earth ...
    1. +9
      10 July 2014 05: 59
      "Whoever comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword!"
      Alexander Nevsky, General, Prince of Russia, who defeated the German and with them other "knight-dogs" who encroached on the Russian Land with crusades.


      These "black men" do not know the history well, they lie for this in the Russian Land forever, fed to earthly worms, and will never see their home again.
      1. nvv
        nvv
        +9
        10 July 2014 06: 23
        I hope Ivana will cry over the corpse of her husband, a black subhuman.
        1. +7
          10 July 2014 08: 46
          I hope Ivana will cry over the corpse of her husband, a black subhuman.

          I don’t understand one thing, if he saved people there, including Ivanna, then why did he come to kill people of my country? Just because they don’t want to ride?
          To kill people, to destroy cities, is this heroism?
        2. +1
          10 July 2014 08: 46
          I hope Ivana will cry over the corpse of her husband, a black subhuman.

          I don’t understand one thing, if he saved people there, including Ivanna, then why did he come to kill people of my country? Just because they don’t want to ride?
          To kill people, to destroy cities, is this heroism?
      2. +2
        10 July 2014 11: 43
        Here is a summary from Strelkov: At Saur-Mogila, the Azov battalion found its own grave ... the Azov battalion, which consisted of 320 people, lost 238 personnel in killed and wounded ... http://topwar.ru/53719 -svodki-ot-strelkova-igorya-ivanovicha-7-8-iyulya-2014-god
        a.html
    2. +2
      10 July 2014 06: 26
      I agree with the "pensioner", we will add it, and very quickly.
      250 people laughing - one MLRS launch (they just need the coordinates of their stay)
    3. The comment was deleted.
    4. +2
      10 July 2014 06: 29
      Quote: retired
      Well, nothing, nothing. Not for the first time all European evil spirited against us. We will add these. Enough Earth ...


      Yuri, this is not so much what is needed: a meter by two and two in depth. And we will find shovels
      1. +6
        10 July 2014 06: 43
        Quote: Very old
        we have shovels
        no shovels stop Put them in funnels like rotten pears
      2. 0
        10 July 2014 07: 39
        Quote: Old very
        Quote: retired
        Well, nothing, nothing. Not for the first time all European evil spirited against us. We will add these. Enough Earth ...


        Yuri, this is not so much what is needed: a meter by two and two in depth. And we will find shovels

        There is enough cocktail for them, to scrub Russian soil because of them, even the earth will not accept this scum. am
    5. +7
      10 July 2014 06: 45
      agree dear fellow countryman! wink This is not the first time we meet the European Union team! laughing They teach history badly, since they don’t know how such matches end! We do not start a war, we end them! soldier
    6. 0
      10 July 2014 09: 47
      On the part of Russia and the CIS countries, too many guys went to fight on the side of the DPR and LPR, so everything will be fine! stand, and then chase!
    7. 0
      1 August 2014 09: 36
      2 meters down
  2. +15
    10 July 2014 05: 48
    All the scum of the world begins to pull together in the Donbass. I sincerely wish these gentlemen to disappear in the steppes of New Russia so as not to even find the remains.
    1. +4
      10 July 2014 06: 52
      This is not the first time that armies with Celtic signs and all sorts of runic symbols have found repose on Russian land!
  3. +11
    10 July 2014 05: 48
    Is free?! For Hitler ?! From around the world?! I do not believe!
    This is either a lie or "blue schizophrenia" ...
  4. +9
    10 July 2014 05: 51
    It is clear who gathered there. Professional thugs.
    PS By the way, some can really go there for free. Just because they like to kill.
    1. 0
      10 July 2014 06: 57
      At this rate, the "Eurohumanists" will soon amnesty for Breivik and go forward to Ukraine --- establish democracy.
  5. Backfire
    +3
    10 July 2014 05: 51
    These idealists will ideally look hanging on the frills of some sort of frigate in the Sevastopol bay
    1. +3
      10 July 2014 06: 35
      Quote: Backrfire
      These idealists will ideally look hanging on the frills of some sort of frigate in the Sevastopol bay

      Will not work. On current frigates such raids do not. But the aspen stakes on the shore of that bay into the earth to drive and plant on them those idealists is quite realistic.
  6. +3
    10 July 2014 05: 52
    This is how much any fascists will have to bury in New Russia? History repeats itself. what
  7. +5
    10 July 2014 05: 53
    The people's revolution fascinated me, ”says a volunteer in a black beret. - How hundreds of young activists of the Right Sector fascinated
  8. +2
    10 July 2014 05: 53
    And all of them are waiting at the zoo.
  9. +5
    10 July 2014 06: 00
    instead of they pressed them at the saur grave?
  10. +1
    10 July 2014 06: 00
    We beat all of the above, and beat these offspring beaten ....
  11. +3
    10 July 2014 06: 03
    The core of the civil war in Ukraine, which is becoming more and more bloody every day, is considered to be a unit devoted to Kiev, which includes volunteers from Italy, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic countries and France


    http://topwar.ru/uploads/images/2014/401/brwd536.jpg
    1. +2
      10 July 2014 10: 17
      The dill army is, in fact, an entirely hired gang. The vanguard of the NATO army. Russia should not "bring in troops", but simply strike with all the force it can. And that's enough about "pulling in". You can't live like that. The one who is afraid to die will die too, but shamefully, slowly and painfully. An adult husband, capable of holding a weapon, should not tolerate even a couple of tears from the children of Novorossiya. I AM FOR WAR! But without partisanship. I am in favor of a full-scale invasion of Russian troops and the defeat of the junta gangs, swift and merciless, and preferably cutting them off from Kiev and cutting off the air bridges. So that not a single bastard leaves.
  12. +2
    10 July 2014 06: 05
    And where is the publicized Jewish battalion "Alia"? And these "volunteers" are simply murderers, they killed for the partition of Yugoslavia, now for the unity of Ukraine ... Just to kill?
    1. +1
      10 July 2014 06: 49
      I doubt that the Jew will go to fight for the Nazis!
      1. nvv
        nvv
        -1
        10 July 2014 14: 45
        And the IDF? ........
        1. 0
          31 July 2014 16: 10
          Quote: nvv
          And the IDF? ........

          Do you have information that Tzahal is fighting on the side of the Nazis?
          Docks to the studio!

          IDF - Israel Defense Army (Hebrew צבא הגנה לישראל - Tzwa hagana le-Yisrael, abbreviated צה"ל - Tsahal) - the armed forces of the State of Israel and its main security organ.
  13. raf
    +5
    10 July 2014 06: 06
    “I'm not afraid of them. If they really need my head, let them come and take it. ”
    Don’t worry, the offal is coming, they will come and take it!
  14. +7
    10 July 2014 06: 09
    Flies from around the world on shit.m.o flew together
  15. +1
    10 July 2014 06: 12
    Look how brewed. This "Azov" also needs to be destroyed cleanly. What would such fighters with Russia become thoughtful.
    1. 0
      10 July 2014 06: 51
      But how to destroy them all? up to a third of the fighters are constantly in Kiev, participate in various disassemblies there!
    2. +1
      10 July 2014 07: 46
      Her! Not to be thoughtful, but to be transferred ...
      To be honest, I’ve been sick of setting for many centuries
      all freaks of foreign in place! Fertilize them
      mother’s land, but they’re not being translated ...
      Can the anti-Russian idea itself be corroded? Yes so
      so that the followers could not appear ...
  16. malahit4444
    +2
    10 July 2014 06: 15
    All of them have already snatched them out once more in a "neat beard." From all over the world, trash rushes. Such "enchanted" will scrutinize holes in their bodies with disappointment.
  17. PN
    +1
    10 July 2014 06: 18
    So I start reading the article and I get the impression of déjà vu. Oh yes, "In a distant, distant galaxy ..." in general from the series The Empire Strikes Back or New Hope.
  18. +1
    10 July 2014 06: 21
    They are looking for adventure on their ass, they will receive them if they don’t have time am
  19. +3
    10 July 2014 06: 22
    Pisanets, if not to say even worse why are you fighting for Ukraine "... free from the influence of both Russia and NATO or the false values ​​of the European Union." So how do the goals of the struggle coincide with the results?
    Mercenaries are mercenaries, what you nah.en volunteers. Those have at least ideas, but you have no ideas or goals. Rather, your goals are peaceful people and those who defend them not wanting to slide into the abyss of neo-fascism ...
    Nothing Savchenko is sitting near Voronezh and the line will reach you. So better ski home skiing !!! soldier
  20. +1
    10 July 2014 06: 25
    Don’t worry Mike (the name is like a dog’s nickname), we’ll come along behind your head, if you survive, and along the way we will remove the scalps of your elderly but not comrade-in-arms comrades.
  21. 0
    10 July 2014 06: 29
    Quote: Backrfire
    These idealists will ideally look hanging on the frills of some sort of frigate in the Sevastopol bay

    It’s not long to wait, the frigate will arrive from St. Petersburg soon laughing
  22. +1
    10 July 2014 06: 36
    Well, zemstvos will be enough for everyone, more than once, the Italians, the French, and the Swedes have already laid down in it.
    Well, their history does not teach, or they do not teach it.
    Whatever the other "Europeans" may be accustomed to, it is necessary to act against such units with their own sabotage and sniper, and shoot these in the first place, so that it is discouraging.
    A good "euromaidanist" is dead ...
  23. +1
    10 July 2014 06: 38
    Quote: Old very
    Quote: retired
    Well, nothing, nothing. Not for the first time all European evil spirited against us. We will add these. Enough Earth ...


    Yuri, this is not so much what is needed: a meter by two and two in depth. And we will find shovels


    Even a meter is not necessary, let the raven pecks
  24. 3vs
    +1
    10 July 2014 06: 45
    As V.V.Shulgin, one of the organizers of the civil war and its participants said, subsequently made the important conclusion that "the Whites started the war almost like angels, but ended almost like devils."
    It's the same with these "heroes".
    Who called you here will be fertilizer on a foreign land.
  25. +3
    10 July 2014 06: 46
    Another confirmation that a "crusade" against Orthodoxy is being carried out in Ukraine.
    Therefore, the head of the SBU Nalyvaychenko said that Orthodox fanatics and extremists are fighting here, which must be destroyed. About the same statement was made by the sworn “friend” of Russia
    Brzezinski.
    And now they are purposefully shelling Orthodox churches. In Slavyansk you can see the ruined chapel near the church of St. prep .. Seraphim of Sarov ...
    The protagonist of the article is a Croat, those who are part of the punitive / police of Austria-Hungary, and during the Second World War as part of the Ustasha, destroyed the Orthodox Serbs.
    And to compare the city where the decision was made about the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian population with Stalingrad is COMMUNITY!
  26. 0
    10 July 2014 06: 50
    Grandmothers making tea in the cold, what the hell is that? How long is he there? Or wrote one who knows only about frost and vodka, but then where are the bears?
  27. +1
    10 July 2014 07: 03
    But does this Italian app not know how Mussolini ended up?
  28. +1
    10 July 2014 07: 17
    when you eat to kill people at least take hornbeam with you-you can return only to them geeks euro
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  30. 0
    10 July 2014 07: 20
    Here in Azov and drown all these "Azov", so that the ground does not stink.
  31. +2
    10 July 2014 07: 22
    Touchingly, to tears, especially about the girl in her arms. Sweethearts, cuties and pussies. And the evil Russians want to destroy such cool guys ....
  32. 0
    10 July 2014 07: 29
    Soon they will receive a piece of Russian land 2x1.
  33. +1
    10 July 2014 07: 30
    Our side needs to devote more time and energy to information warfare. See how romantic these "idealists" look in the eyes of Europeans. The content of their wrapper does not match, but who will understand? And it is necessary to understand, so that Ukrainians get into their ranks not idealists, but drug addicts, drunks and sadists - that is, rabble. They will still ride ... the war raises a lot of dirt from the bottom of human society.
  34. +2
    10 July 2014 07: 32
    The Azov battalion is financed by Lyashko. Is he 3,14 doctors and pedophiles from all over the world collecting? A normal man (sexually) will have any dealings with a pedophile? Although everything is possible in Ukraine now ...
  35. +1
    10 July 2014 07: 33
    In Russia, legislation is also being prepared on the legalization of private military units. Everything is like everyone else. So help will come to the militias in the Donbass.
  36. +1
    10 July 2014 07: 41
    In Spain, Nazis fought Nazis of different nationalities .. And here the same thing ..
  37. 0
    10 July 2014 08: 17
    By and large, all Ukrainian presidents must be buried. For their work on the decomposition of the country and people. Western Shmondevki. am
  38. 0
    10 July 2014 08: 39
    How many of you gathered there, scum and shit!
    1. gdv
      gdv
      0
      3 August 2014 21: 16
      Isengard team!))
  39. 0
    10 July 2014 08: 45
    wow, how strong, brave, disinterested they are ...
    only they are not on the front line - all the work is boring: - dismantling in Kiev, cleaning up "liberated" villages and suburbs! most importantly, it's free ... yeah, they believed it, of course! all outlaw flies to Ukraine, all the garbage ...
    but, for example, let's say: what do the "legitimate authorities" think about this? well, they hope to win ... let's say - dreams, of course ... and then how to get this stinking and infectious garbage out of the country, all this bunch of voluntary killers and pathological patriotic revolutionaries? they cannot get rid of the Maidans!
    here it becomes clear - the "power" does not think about the future, it is not for them, no matter how much the devil will allow them to take a walk, and then - ...
  40. +1
    10 July 2014 08: 52
    It would be interesting to read what this journalist writes about the militiamen. He writes with delight about the "black men".
    Unfortunately, there are ideological ones on the other side. And they are the most dangerous. Fascist ideology dances with hatred towards those who think differently. An ideological fascist is akin to a fanatic, the latest news about the purges of punishers confirms this. So, I doubt the noble impulses of these "soldiers of fortune".
    Many of these came to our land. Where are they? And these will find the same end.
  41. +1
    10 July 2014 09: 05
    "We want to see a united Ukraine, but at the same time independent, free from the influence of both Russia and NATO or the false values ​​of the European Union." Crazy.
  42. Alexander67
    0
    10 July 2014 09: 33
    Black men, well, straight blacks. A place for all of you on the stake, where we all of you, geyropovskoe scumbag, short time and put. And at stake, you will all see free dill and your geyropu. With fiery greetings.
  43. Davydov
    0
    10 July 2014 10: 29
    They don’t pay them (yes, without the dough they’re their jo..you won’t tear them from the devan)!
  44. 0
    10 July 2014 11: 25
    Hopefully, none of these "idealists" will leave alive.
  45. ed65b
    +2
    10 July 2014 12: 02
    Vyzer was especially pleased about the battle for Mariupol just like the battle for Berlin was his mother scribbler. I don’t want to comment, God will give everything; lie somewhere in the field, not buried.
  46. +1
    10 July 2014 13: 53
    Right Robin Hoods, some. The evil spirits climbed into our house, it is necessary to clean up with time.
  47. +1
    10 July 2014 18: 34
    See what equipment they have! Having such funds, in three months the Ukrainians "mastered" only Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Glory to the hero cities! If the militia had such ammunition ... Ukrozhops would have long been ...
  48. 0
    20 November 2022 20: 08
    Well, Gaston Besson found himself an inglorious end in Ukraine. Other friends from his retinue will find the same end. Whatever one may say, our cause is just, we will win ...
  49. 0
    20 November 2022 22: 18
    One of the main recruiters of foreign fighters for Ukraine, Gaston Besson, was killed

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