Svoboda (translated Freedom) trains its members for guerrilla actions. Each year, Freedom Party takes its people to the mountains, and, besides ultra-nationalist ideology courses, it teaches them how to fight or how to get beaten, how to occupy a building, and how to keep it occupied. ”We train here too, but mostly in the summer, in the Carpathian mountains. Everything I learned in the training camps helped me very much during police attacks,” says a 30-something year old lad, with small eyes and narrow forehead. His name is Artem Bondar, and he guards the town hall entrance.

The town hall doors are barricaded with pieces of massive furniture. The place vibrates like an anthill. Girls and boys run around the marble-adorned corridors, among sleeping bags, where people doze off. There is a strong scent of ammonia.

To get to the largest room in the building, that serves for holding speeches, as a sleeping quarter, food area, and for looking after the sick, you must pass about three check points. The guards have yoga mats wrapped around their forearms and calves held together with tape. They have combat helmets and wooden clubs.

The great hall smoulders with tension. All the hydrants are broken, and the hoses spread out towards all the building exit routes. They’ll be used against the militia, if they barge in.