Finnish police have arrested the Russian Yan Petrovsky, a leader of neo-Nazi paramilitary group “Task Force Rusich,” who is wanted in Ukraine on suspicion of committing war crimes in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014–2015. According to media reports, Kyiv has already requested Petrovsky’s extradition.

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      Scandinavian stuff is like a magnet for nazi idiots. Vikings, runes, groups like Burzum (see Varg Vikernes), white majority in the country, nortern nature, isolation and safety to form clubs or even parties for them. It’s like a Disneyland for him.

      And after a while, when he was deported, he probably wanted to get back, as in his country nazism is controlled and only useful, submissive strays are safe to be. Becoming too influential or talking against the party line is a punishable offence. At least a couple of big neonazi\alt-right turds got suicided in recent decade for acting up, and I wasn’t following them closely. If only it wasn’t in history books.

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        Finland isn’t Scandinavian but granted I wouldn’t trust a Nazi to know that.

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    Update. Later on Friday, Rusich announced on its Telegram channel that the task force is halting “any combat missions” until “Slavyan” (Petrovsky) is extradited to Russia.

    Neat.

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    Hmm…I wonder what the backstory is… Like was he living in Finland or came from another Schengen country? 🤔 AFAIK, Russian tourists are banned now from entering the country.

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    What’s an ‘ultranationalist’? Sounds worse than a ‘supernationalist’, but competitive with a ‘meganationalist’