Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature

It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. People live in a world with their own making.

Frankly, that seems to be the problem.

Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and welcome to angry planet. I'm Matthew Gault and I'm Jason Field.

According to Vladimir Putin, he's on a quest to denazify Ukraine, but what about the Nazis in his own backyard? Hell, what about the Nazis

all over Central and Eastern Europe? Right now, the Azov Regiment in Ukraine is dominating

the conversation. Pictures of the Ultra Nationalist Group are circulating online and being used to justify Russia's invasion.

They aren't the only fascists in the area, far from it.

But it's complicated, and Aizov is part of a broad tapestry of fascist movements in the region, including Russia.

Here to get into all of this is Michael Colburn.

Colburn is a journalist working at Bellingat where he writes about extremist movements in Europe.

He's written a lot about Azov, but his latest is about fascists in Russia.

Male state, the Russian online hate group backing Putin's war is at Belling

Cat now.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, thank you gentlemen for the invoice.

And so let's get some basic stuff out of the way because this has been in the news

and we've actually had some

listeners reach out to us asking about it what is Azov exactly are they more than

just a military unit it's when people ask me about as of those four letters, that one word as of and when they see it online, I think a lot of the times people are not always talking about the same thing or they're talking about.

You know, it's, they're never quite clear exactly what they're even talking about.

So for a bit of background, I'm speaking of what is now loosely called the Azov movement, and that's,

...