The Freikorps Military-Patriotic Organisation (Військово-патріотична організація «Фрайкор») is the political wing of the Freikorps Volunteer Unit, formed in 2018, the group has participated in political demonstrations and has collaborated with various other organisations from the Ukrainian far-right, including Tradition and Order, Right Sector and the National Corps party:
According to FreedomHouse, on May 17, 2019, about 10 members of the organization stormed a private event, declared the event over, and gave an anti-LGBT speech. Freikorps broadcast its action on Facebook. Some of those who broke in had Wolfsangel symbols used by the German Nazi organization ” SS ” 6 .
In June 2019, representatives of the organization together with the members of the associations “Tradition and order”, “Right sector”, “Nazkorpus” during the congress of the party “Trust in Affairs” arranged a demonstration, after which they went to the bust Marshal Zhukov, dropped it from the pedestal and hung it flag of Ukraine.
In September 2019, representatives of the organization were detained in Kharkiv during the KharkivPride equality march due to clashes that occurred after the event. Two participants in the equality march were injured. 15 Freikorps members were detained 8 . Three members of the unit were charged with violence and threats against law enforcement officers 2 .
At Kharkiv Gymnasium № 43, the school principal was fired because the Freikor Association taught students a lesson in patriotic education. This was announced on his page in Telegram by the Secretary of the Kharkiv City Council Igor Terekhov. “Today, the 43rd gymnasium hosted an “unexpected” and unplanned lesson in patriotism, which ended with a lesson in fascism in the performance of the right-wing radical organization “Frykor”, “Terekhov wrote. “For those who don’t know: these guys take their name from the German Freikorps. There was such a radical-patriotic organization in Germany that after its collapse provided staff for the NSDAP. Simple - Nazis, - added the secretary of the city council. In his message, he said that “not against the lessons of patriotism, but against the lessons of fascism.”.
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