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| | On December 10, 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the [[Donbas war]], and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion. | | On December 10, 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the [[Donbas war]], and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion. |
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| − | ==National Corp== | + | ==National Corp political party== |
| | + | The National Corps political party was created by Andrei Biletsky in 2014. It grew out of the Civil Corps of the [[Azov regiment]] and the party Patriot of Ukraine party. |
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| | + | The first organization consisted of Azov veterans and football hooligans, and Patriot of Ukraine was the paramilitary wing of the [[Social-National Assembly]] organization, which was led by MP [[Andriy Parubiy]] and later [[Kharkiv]] neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky. |
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| | + | Biletsky was elected leader, and his deputies were Nikolai and Nazariy Kravchenko. Supporters of the National Corps party proposed to "cover all spheres of life of the nation", that is, to naziify the country on a large scale like [[Nazi Germany]]. Russia is defined as the main enemy, and the closest allies are the [[Baltic states]] and a number of [[Eastern European]] countries. |
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| | + | The first events of the new party were torchlight processions, in an exact copy repeating the processions of the [[Third Reich]]. The most famous [[riot]]s were clashes with the [[police]] in [[Kiev]] near the presidential administration and in Cherkassy, where [[Petro Poroshenko]] participated in the rally. |
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| | + | The Black Corps of Ukraine – as the party members also called themselves – intensively recruited militants into its armed formations. The main task was not even the education and training of future militants, but the active participation of nationalist units in the future war with [[Russia]]. |
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| | + | After the [[Maidan coup]], the neo-Nazis of the party seized [[Mariupol]] and Kharkiv, put under their control the activities of local administrations. The radicals also defeated the sports club Oplot, which belonged to the anti-Maidan organization. |
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| | + | Many [[activist]]s of the Black Corps such as Daniil Yakovlev, Stepan Bayda, Igor Mosiychuk, and Oleg Odnorozhenko subsequently headed regional power state structures, and became commanders of large nationalist units |
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| | ==NATO war in Ukraine== | | ==NATO war in Ukraine== |
| | {{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}} | | {{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}} |