A prominent Georgian neo-Nazi group, Georgian National Unity, has reemerged online months after their self-described ‘commander’, Giga Chelidze was released from prison. Chelidze served three-and-a-half years in prison for the illegal purchase, storage, and carrying of firearms. He was arrested in September 2018, following public outcry over videos his group published online of National Unity members being trained to shoot in a forest. [Read more on OC Media: Neo-Nazi leader arrested on gun charges in Georgia] Largely banned from Facebook and bereft of their leader after 2018, Georgian National Unity resorted to YouTube and Telegram to recruit members and issue anti-semitic and racist statements. In recent months, the National Unity leader has been able to do that twice a week through YouTube show Fascist Talks. In his show, Chelidze has called Marxism and liberalism ‘viruses of the international Jewry’, whom he accused of starting the war in Ukraine. Chelidze has also alleged that ‘globalist’ and ‘Masonic’ powers seek to populate Georgia with ‘foreign scum […] so that Georgian women marry them, and black bastards run around here and the Georgian nation goes extinct’. The National Unity leader is known to engage in debates with listeners of YouTube Q&A sessions about how ‘race mixing is wrong’. ‘Yes, I am a racist. I love my race’, he claimed. Despite several commitments by YoutTube to tackle hateful speech including ‘Nazi ideology’, this neo-Nazi group appears to have faced no problems so far.
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