The commander of the “Azov” brigade, Denys Prokopenko (nickname “Redis”) wears a plaque of the Ukhty Republic on his shoulder. Radis explains that he is doing this in memory of his grandfather, a Karelian by nationality. Denys Prokopenko’s great-grandfather was born and raised in Finland and participated in the Winter War against the USSR. Then the whole family died, except for one son, who miraculously survived and moved to Kyiv.
My grandfather had such a terrible hatred for communism, for Bolshevism, for Sovka… and, can you imagine, losing his family? That is, all his brothers died, relatives. I don’t know if they were killed or captured somewhere.
It turned out that I grew up with my grandfather. He raised me, and I grew up there until I was 7 years old, then I moved to my parents, and started going to school. But my grandfather was always an authority for me, and I supported his ideas. I can’t say that he imposed them on me, he just told me a lot, and I consciously shared his views. For me, this is blood revenge. I had a dream to fight against the Russians, and I couldn’t not take advantage of this chance,” Denys Prokopenko said in an interview for the regimental newspaper about his motivation to wear the symbol of the Karelian resistance.
Vladislav Nobel-Oleinik
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