Leftists inside the Maidan organized their own armed self-defense group separate from far-right ones.

Evidence

Artem and his friends, anti-authoritarian leftists, decided that they wanted to form a “hundred” themselves. They were committed to fighting for the cause, and their own self-defense group would reflect their particular vision for the country. They knew that Andriy Parubiy, one of the founders of the far-right Social-National Party (he left in 2004, as it became Svoboda) was overseeing the “registration” of the groups in Ukrainian House, a large building that rebels controlled on the square. One day in January, Artem and his friends got together around sixty leftists, anarchists, feminists, and social democrats, and presented themselves for duty. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 496

Categorization

• QUESTION: Interesting that anti-authoritarian leftists chose to join a structure whose registration was run by a far-right organizer — what did that contradiction mean for them?
• XREF: connects to: A tiny far-right fringe, not the population, dominated the Maidan’s militant core — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 492; Some leftist Maidan participants stayed despite the far-right’s prominent role — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 511; Far-right nationalists were few but weighty in the Maidan protests — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 492

Broader Connections

• A tiny far-right fringe, not the population, dominated the Maidan’s militant core #qualifies (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 492
• Far-right nationalists were few but weighty in the Maidan protests #corroborates (0.75) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 492
• Some leftist Maidan participants stayed despite the far-right’s prominent role #expands (0.74) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 511