It's been a while but I do have vague recollections of the Absalon murder since I was vocally against it, however I don't recall him "defending" the NPA. He was only stating that it wasn't in violation of the land mine treaty being that it was a radio detonated IED.

Then again, I'm not privy to all of gradenko's posts and he might have sworn support to the NPA or outright defended them that I wasn't aware of. But from what I've read (both in Reddit and the SomethingAwful Forums), my take is that he's mostly your typical left-leaning individual that wouldn't categorically shun extremists because underneath all the violence and mafioso tactics of the NPA, they have similar ideologies.

I've been here long enough to understand that politics is complicated and a spectrum. I've even come to begrudgingly "respect" and comprehend the minds of DDS and Marcos loyalists even though I detest them.