“Hero of the Ukraine” Nadezhda Savchenko addresses the Rada

Ukraine is nothing but the world’s largest psychiatric hospital.

It doesn’t look like a full house.

I would have expected the place to be packed full of deputies to see their hero(sarcasm)
She really is a truly awful person. She just gives me the creeps. Better that she is there with her people. Maybe she doesn’t seem so mad to them.
If she does go on a tour of Europe she will need a makeover – to be blunt she’s far too manly to be a heroine.

Whose strangling the cat?

I am a Ukrainian-speaker who listened to Savchenko’s very short speech as recorded here.
Assuming it was unedited, this is clear that she is no accomplished public speaker, she showed signs of hesitation and stress.—No doubt she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] which under the circumstances would not be unusual.

Her whole speech consisted of several calls of “glory to Ukraine” and “glory to heroes” which are admittedly slogans traditionally used by various Ukrainian patriots and “nationalists” and even the “fascists”,—she was busy unfurling and handling both a huge Ukrainian flag and tiny little, I believe, it was a Crimean Tatar flag, which no doubt somebody instructed her to carry. She sang the Ukrainian anthem, showed herself a rather poor singer and it seems got a few words wrong but only as minor little mistakes, she did apologize to the mother of someone else who she said gave up his life to save her life, and then it seemed the main thrust of her speech was a call for efforts to free some other Ukrainian prisoners held in Russia.—“Freedom for the prisoners of the Kremlin” was the poster that she helped put up even as the poster calling for her freedom was taken down.—That was it.—It was very notable what the speech did NOT contain, like no calls
for “death to Putin” or “dismember Russia” or “march on Moscow burn it to the ground” or “enslave and exterminate the Russian people, those damn ‘moskals'” or “white race is the best, enslave and exterminate all the non-white ‘mud people'” and so on.

So where is that “perfect, concentrated and pure expression of Ukronazi hatred, ugliness and evil”? I do not see it in this instance.—Assuming that her trial and conviction were not just a rigged show trial from the start, and that she is indeed guilty as convicted, she obtained a pardon for other strictly strategic and political purposes, got released,—I would not want her to be some poster-person representing Ukraine, but on the other hand, the reaction against her even within this blog is phenomenal in its intensity. Had this been anyone else in the identical circumstances, be it German, British, French, Serbian, Arabic, Kurdish, Israeli-Jewish, Chinese, Japanese or you name the nationality, I do not think there would be even half the venom which is directed against her because she is Ukrainian.

Maybe the reason that “Ukrainian nationalism” tends to be so very angry, as it is accused of being exceptionally “hate-filled” etc. is because no other nationality,—except for the Jews,— faces the kind of fundamental opposition to its very existence as do the Ukrainians.

Let’s review some prominent points in history. When “Ukrainians” by such name first arose in history, in the 1500’s-1600’s, they had organized themselves into a cossack army where leaders served more or less at the pleasure of the rank and file being free persons, where slavery and serfdom where abhorred and fought against.—At that point, the Russians-Muscovites-Suzdalians thanks to the depradations of the regime of Ivan the Terrible were essentially a slave empire where the tsar owned everybody as his “kholops” his personal chattel-property-slaves. It was like South Korea versus North Korea. Over the years, the larger and stronger slave empire simply dismantled and overwhelmed the what it liked to call “Small Russia” and Ukrainian language and identity were persecuted and repressed because they were anti-tsarist subversive. After all, the eminent leader in Ukrainian literature was Taras Shevchenko, son of a serf, who did not have much good to say about tsars and kings and landowning nobles handling the serfs on the “plantations” so to speak. Of course, the tsarist regime did not want its subjects to start learning and reading the Ukrainian language and coming to appreciate someone like Shevchenko. To be Ukrainian was deemed to be anti-tsarist subversive.—After the communists took over, under Stalin’s regime, there arose in the 1930s a policy of the “confluence of nations” stressing conformity and uniformity, to construct the so-called “Soviet people” who were supposed to be strictly culturally and linguistically “Russian” within the parameters of what the communist party considered appropriate Russian culture, and all non-Russian cultures suffered massacres of the cultural leaders, efforts to wipe out all non-Russian languages and cultures, in the stalinist way.
The Ukrainians bore the brunt of this policy. Previous Ukrainianization policies were reversed, cultural leaders were massacred, Ukrainian-speaking population was subjected to starvation policy, and the concept of a Ukrainian communism was wiped out. Again, to be Ukrainian was deemed to be anti-regime, counterrevolutionary and subversive. It was the same pattern repeating itself. Assorted fascists were the only ones left to advocate for a Ukrainian identity.

It looks like through the preparations for the “Novorussia project” even well before 2014 with trainng for military action existing,—like the counterpart training of the Ukrainian nationalist forces in Poland,—Ukraine was again supposed to filfill its cursed geopolitical destiny to be a ravaged battleground between outside forces, and this is regardless of whether Ukraine is or is not “part of Russia”. The Ukrainian oligarchs were clearly not warmongers and they believed in and relied on the validity of the Budapest Memorandum and on the force of international law in general to guarantee the inviolability of Ukrainian borders, and so they drastically neglected the Ukrainian military and essentially disarmed, got rid of strategic bombers, cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, even preferred to sell modern weapons for cash and let the Ukrainian army work with the old obsolete weapons which would supposedly never need to be used anyway.

The Ukrainian reliance on law did not work, and was betrayed, leaving the Ukrainians like a nest of frantic enraged hornets. Clearly, the humans in general are like gladiators in an arena, setting about to do endless warfare in order to produce the maximal amount of rage energies and fear energies as the true end in itself, in order to enhance and “feed” predatory evil emotional entities whose playground the world is.—But the Ukrainians are not to blame for this situation!

Not enough lipstick in Ukraine for this pig.

“über alles” in german sounds quite similar than “liberales” in some other languages … in symbolism well exploited by western conservative propaganda of the 80’s, through the music of “dead kennedys” … :) ukraine seems to be just a new playground for old ideas.