by Francis Lee for The Saker Blog
The open support given by the entire western media and political establishments to the regime now ensconced in Kiev should give cause for concern, but of course it doesn’t. After all it would not do to profess open backing for a staged coup by neo-nazi militants orchestrated and paid for by EU and US through non-government channels. Of course the CIA was involved but only in one of its various front organizations, to wit, the National Endowment for Democracy. This was the prototype ‘colour revolution.’ This process has been exhaustively delineated as follows:
In Ukraine, the demonically violent riots of 2014 were orchestrated by the US; that American agents in both private and public sectors were involved in organizing the “grassroots” campaign designed to destroy what was left of the country are now well known. The same exact script has been played out in Serbia, Georgia, Syria, Iran, Libya, the Gulf states, Turkey (briefly), China, parts of Central Asia and even Armenia. Not all were successful.
In Ukraine, State Department hack Geoffrey Pyatt brought US cash to begin the campaign against the democratically elected President, Yanukovic. Radio Free Europe and the western-controlled Ukrainian media (especially the Kiev Post) began promoting rumours of a “Russian invasion” based upon the obscure issue of Kiev’s desire to join the European Union. George Soros created the “Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre” as both government and private cash went to building a protest movement. The veto of a European Union Association deal was important to the elites in New York, though probably almost totally unknown to Ukrainians, hence, the “spontaneous rebellion” began with that.
The method of public-private manipulation of media, imagery and even language in these cases is well known and several important monographs have been published about it. Yet, over and over again, the organizers of this claim that the “revolutions” are “spontaneous.” over and over again, academics and talking heads – the “instant experts” created by the System – repeat the official line.
In general, the western elite mobilizes urban, privileged elements of the population, uses their own organizers and media personnel, and create riots through the building of local organizations. They are granted cash, equipment, technology, ideology and even leaders with a script to follow. Violence is encouraged and all manner of suitable provocations are provided. A handful in the west point to the fact that a) the trajectory is identical in each case; b) way too many of the protest signs are in English and c) there is no clear ideological mission.
Corporate media then report that this obscure part of the world was run by a “terrorist” that also was a “tyrant.” For the left, the System will say that the government under siege was “conservative” and occasionally “a right-wing military regime.” For the right, they will say that the government in question was “opposed to American interests” or “harbouring terrorists.”
In many cases, hundreds or more are killed. Ostensible and official enemies of the US are financed and armed. A new government takes over that immediately “privatizes” all assets that made that country a target in the first place. Constitutions are rewritten and the penal code revised to ensure no US agent is prosecuted. Afterwards, the government in question is impoverished and without legitimacy. The assets of the state have been liquidated and bought up by western conglomerates based on the “principles of the free market and the rule of law.”
Strange people are seen in cabinet posts having names without much connection with the ethnicity in question. The IMF and World Bank give dire warnings about government policy and yet, give billions that they know will never be paid back or utilized properly. Within a few months, major media begin slowly leaking documents that in fact, the protest were organized by the CIA and that the “revolution” was a failure.
As more time goes by, stories related to this “revolution” nonchalantly speak of the “popular and spontaneous revolution against the tyrant” as if it is obviously true. After several years, almost everyone spouts the original line without criticism, almost with media reports that it was all staged. The American talking head and pseudo-intellectual then carries a conceptual conflict within him that makes any real rebellion against the system psychologically impossible.
This is precisely the nature of the “Colour Revolution” from Tienanmen Square to Kiev.’’ (1)
Thus the situation in Kiev by 2014 was ripe for a colour revolution. But politics in the Ukraine can only be understood by reference to its history and ethnic and cultural make-up – a make-up criss-crossed by lasting and entrenched differences. The country has long been split into the northern and western Ukraine, where Ukrainian is the official and everyday lingua franca, and the more industrialised regions of the east and south where a mixture of Russian speaking Ukrainians and ethnic Russians reside. Additionally, there has long been Hungarian and Romanian settlement in the west of the country, Transcarpathia and Bessarabia, and a particularly important Polish presence in Galicia, whose unofficial capital, Lviv, was once the Polish city of Lwow. The Russian Orthodox Church is the predominant form of Christianity in the East, – but this has recently broken up as a result of the Ukrainian branch which has seen fit to rebrand itself as the Ukrainian wing of the Orthodox church – generally speaking, however, in the west the Christian tradition tends towards Roman Catholicism.
Politically the Eastern and Southern Oblasts (Regions) which includes the cities and centres of heavy industry, Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhe, Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol (Crimea) and Odessa, have tended to tilt towards Russia whilst the western regions have had a more western orientation. This has traditionally been reflected in the electoral division of the country. There is no party which can be considered ‘national’ in this respect, except ironically, the old Communist party, which of course is now banned. The major regional parties have been the Fatherland party of Yulia Tymoshenko (since renamed) and the former head of government, Arseniy Yatsenyuk – now departed – as well as the ultra-nationalists predominantly in the west of the country, and the deposed Victor Yanukovic’s Party of the Regions in the East (now defunct) along with its junior partner in the coalition, the Ukrainian Communist Party.
However, what is new since the coup in February 2014 there has been the emergence, or rather the re-emergence, from the shadows of ultra-nationalist (fascist) parties and movements, with both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary (i.e., military) wings. In the main ‘Svoboda’ or Freedom Party, and the paramilitaries of ‘Right Sector’ (Fuhrer: Dimitry Yarosh) who spearheaded the coup in Kiev; these have been joined or changed their names to inter alia the Radical Party, and Patriots of the Ukraine; this in addition to the punitive right-wing militias, such as the Azov Battalion responsible for numerous atrocities in the Don Bass. It should be added that many of these militias have been integrated into the military and armed police, including the Azov Battalion.
Suffice it to say, however, that these political movements and parties did not emerge from nowhere.
This far-right tradition has been historically very strong in the western Ukraine, an area which was one-time part of the Polish empire but incorporated into the Ukraine by Stalin in 1945. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was first established in 1929 and brought together, war veterans, student fraternities, far-right groups and various other disoriented socially and political flotsam and jetsam under its banner. The OUN took its ideological position from the writings of one, Dymtro Dontsov, who, like Mussolini had been a socialist, and who was instrumental in creating an indigenous Ukrainian fascism based upon the usual mish-mash of writings and theories including Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Sorel, and Charles Maurras. Dontsov also translated the works of Hitler and Mussolini into Ukrainian.
The OUN was committed to ethnic purity, and relied on violence, assassination and terrorism, not least against other Ukrainians, to achieve its goal of a totalitarian and homogeneous nation-state. Assorted enemies and impediments to this goal were Communists, Russians, Poles, and of course – Jews. Strongly oriented toward the Axis powers OUN founder Evhen Konovalets (1891-1938) stated that his movement was ‘’waging war against mixed marriages’’, with Poles, Russians and Jews, the latter which he described as ‘’foes of our national rebirth’’. Indeed, rabid anti-Semitism has been a leitmotif in the history of Ukrainian fascism, which we will return to below.
Konovelts himself was assassinated by a KGB hit-man in 1938 after which the movement split into two wings: (OUN-M) under Andrii Melnyk and, more importantly for our purposes (OUN-B) under Stepan Bandera. Both wings committed to a new fascist Europe. Upon the German invasion in June 1941, the OUN-B attempted to establish a Ukrainian satellite state loyal to Nazi Germany. Stepan Lenkavs’kyi the then chief propagandist of the OUN-B ‘government’ advocated the physical destruction of Ukrainian Jewry. OUN-B’s ‘Prime Minister’ Yaroslav Stets’ko, and deputy to Bandera supported, ‘’the destruction of the Jews and the expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine, barring their assimilation and the like.’’
During the early days of the rapid German advance into the Soviet Union there were some 140 pogroms in the western Ukraine claiming the lives of between 13000-35000 people (Untermensch, in fascist terminology).
Below is what real anti-semitism looks like. The picture was taken in Lviv (Capital of Banderistan) In June 1941 shortly after the German invasion and during the pogrom which killed in excess of 2000 Jews in the city. The terrified half-dressed Jewish woman is running for her life being pursued by a cudgel-wielding mob of Banderist thugs.
In 1943-1944 OUN-B and its armed wing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska povstanska armia – UPA) carried out large scale ethnic cleansing resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands; this was a particularly gruesome affair in Volhynia where some 90000 Poles and thousands of Jews were murdered.
The UPA were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out in Nazi German–occupied Poland by the North Command in the regions of Volhynia (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) and their South Command in Eastern Galicia (General Government) beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of 1944. The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children. UPA’s methods were particularly savage and resulted in 35,000–60,000 Polish deaths in Volhynia and 25,000–40,000 in Eastern Galicia, for the total of between 76,000 and 106,000 casualties.
The killings were directly linked with the policies of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose goal as specified at the Second Conference of the OUN-B on 17–23 February 1943 (or March 1943 according to other sources) was to purge all non-Ukrainians from the future Ukrainian state. Not limiting their activities to the purging of Polish civilians, UPA also wanted to erase all traces of the Polish presence in the area. The violence was endorsed by a significant number of the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy who supported UPA’s nationalist cause. The massacres led to a civil conflict between Polish and Ukrainian forces in the German-occupied territories, with the Polish Home Army in Volhynia responding to the Ukrainian attacks.
The campaign of the UPA continued well into the 1950s until it was virtually wiped out by Soviet forces. It should be remembered in this context that also in play was the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) which was a World War II German military formation made up predominantly of military volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia later also with some Slovaks and Czechs. Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army and surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945. The remnants of this force were given entry into both the US and more particularly Canada where they are a significant political force today.
It should be said that during this early period Bandera himself had been incarcerated by the German authorities up until his release in 1944, since unlike Bandera they were not enamoured of an independent Ukrainian state but wanted total control. Bandera was only released at this late date since the German high command was endeavouring to build up a pro-German Ukrainian quisling military force to hold up the remorseless advance of the Red Army. Also pursuant to this it is also worth noting that during this period the 14th Galizian Waffen SS Division, the military Ukrainian collaborationist formation established by none other than, Heinrich Himmler, which was formed to fight the Soviet forces, and yet another being the Nachtingal (Nightingale) brigade; this unit was integrated into the 14th Galizian in due course. It is also interesting to note, that every year, and up to 2014 a commemoration ceremony including veterans of this unit takes place with a march through Lviv. The flag of this unit is not dissimilar to the auto-car Peugeot logo, the standing lion, and can be seen at ultra-nationalist rallies as well as football matches involving Lviv Karparti FC, particularly fixtures in involving Shaktar Donetsk. There is also the annual torchlight demonstration through Kiev every 2 January in commemoration of Bandera’s birthday by some 20000 of his followers. This parade had all the makings of Nazi triumphalism, all very reminiscent of Leni Riefensthal German filmmaker and Nazi sympathiser. There are also numerous statues of Bandera across Ukraine, and since the 2014 coup even street names bearing the same name. Significantly the UPA was to receive political rehabilitation from the Kiev Junta, with Bandera declared a hero of the Ukraine and the UPA rebranded as ‘freedom fighters.’ One particularly splendid statue of Bandera stands proudly in Lviv, lovingly adorned with flowers.
Other novel attractions the capital of Banderestan – Lviv – include ‘Jewish themed restaurants’ one such is Kryivka (Hideout or Lurking Hole) where guests have a choice of dishes and whose dining walls are decorated with larger than life portraits of Bandera, the toilet with Russian and Jewish anecdotes. At another Jewish themed restaurant guests are offered black hats of the sort worn by Hasidim. The menu lists no prices for the dishes; instead, one is required to haggle over highly inflated prices ‘’in the Jewish fashion’’. Yes, it’s all good clean fun in Lviv. Anti-Semitism also sells. Out of 19 book vendors on the streets of central Lviv, 16 were openly selling anti-Semitic literature. About 70% of the anti-Semitic publications in Ukraine are being published by and educational institution called MUAP (The Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management). MAUP is a large, well-connected and increasingly powerful organization funded from outside anti-Semite sources, and also connected to White Supremacist groups in the USA and to David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
(It is perhaps one of the ironies of history that if the Zionists in AIPAC and the Washington neo-con think tanks, and the Labour Party Friends of Israel, were so concerned about anti-Semitism, they might try looking for it in Lviv. They wouldn’t have to search very far.)
Present day neo-Nazi groupings in Ukraine – Svoboda (Freedom) party and Right Sector – have been the direct descendants from the prior ideological cesspool. Heading Svoboda is Oleh Tyahnybok. Although these are separate organizations Tyahnybok’s deputy Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn is the main link between Svoboda’s official wing and neo-Nazi militias like Right Sector. The Social-Nationalist party as it was formerly known chose as its logo an amended version of the Wolfsangel, a symbol used by many German Waffen SS divisions on the Eastern front during the war who in 2004 a celebration of the OUN-UPA, stated in 2004, that ‘’they fought against the Muscovite, Germans, Jews and other scum who wanted to take away our Ukrainian state.’’ And further that ‘’Ukraine was ruled by a Muscovite-Jewish mafia.’’ Tyahnybok came under pressure from the then President, Yuschenko, to retract his inflammatory statements, which he did, but he then retracted the retraction!
Given the fact that Svoboda was, apart from its stamping grounds in the west, making little national electoral headway, it was essential to clean up its image and deny its Nazi past. But this was always going to be difficult since the members of such groups cannot help the unscripted outbursts and faux pas which they tend to make and which reveals their true colours. For example, following the conviction and sentencing of John Demjanjuk in 2011 to five years in jail for his role as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp, Tyahnybok travelled to Germany and met up with Demjanjuk’s lawyer, presenting the death camp guard as a hero, a victim of persecution ‘’who is fighting for truth’’.
And so it goes on. We can therefore infer that this organization is inveterate fascist. More disturbing Svoboda has links with the so-called Alliance of National European Movements, which includes: Nationaldemokraterna of Sweden, Front Nationale of France, Fiamma Tricolore in Italy, the Hungarian Jobbik and the Belgian National Front. More importantly Svoboda held several ministerial portfolios in the Kiev administration, and Right Sector swaggers around Kiev streets with impunity, and/or are being drafted into a National Guard to deal with the separatist movements in the east, or to beat down anyone who doesn’t conform to their Ayran racial and political ideals.
One would have thought that this mutating revolution in the Ukraine would have drawn attention of the centre-left to the fact that fascism had gained a vital beachhead in Europe, and that the danger signals should be flashing. But not a bit of it; a perusal of the Guardian newspaper quickly reveals that their chief concern has been with a non-existent ‘Russian threat’. One of their reporters – our old friend, Luke Harding -described Right Sector as an ‘’eccentric group of people with unpleasant right-wing views.’’ Priceless! This must rank as the political understatement of the century. In fact, the Guardian was simply reiterating the US-imposed neo-conservative foreign policy. But naturally, this is par for the course. The bald fact of the matter is that there is a de facto alliance between the genuine anti-semites, not only in Ukraine but in the Baltics also, who are now allied with Zionists in the war against the emerging Eurasian bloc.
The Nachtingal (Nightingale) brigade, took part in a three-day massacre of the Jewish population of Lviv from 30 June 1941. Roman Shukhevych was the commander of the Nachtingal and later, in 1943, became commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (the “Banderivtsy”) or UPA armed henchmen of the fascist Stepan Bandera, who after the war pretended that they had fought both Nazis and Communists. Members of the division are also accused of having murdered some 800 residents of the Polish village of Huta Pieniacka and 44 civilians in the village of Chłaniów.
Stepan Bandera statue in Lviv
Ukraine today is in a sorry state; the poorest country in Europe only kept alive by an IMF drip-feed. The economic and social ramifications of the 2014 coup will be observed insofar as the full weight of the neo-liberal economic policies has been foisted on the Ukraine, courtesy of the IMF. This was already apparent in the early 80s but the trend accelerated after the coup. The standard IMF/WTO Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) a package of ‘reforms’ and ‘fiscal consolidation’ (I just love these IMF euphemisms) consisted of cuts in government expenditure, accompanied by extensive liberalisation of product and labour markets, together with abandonment of exchange rate control and capital flows. These policies along with political instability have had, among other things, a disastrous effect on population growth. Ukraine’s population was 52 million in 1992 and the decline started in that year. By 2016, this figure had fallen to 42.5 million, its 1960 figure, and was accelerated since the coup of 2014. The current Fertility rate stands at 1.3. Any figure less than 2 will mean a shrinking population. The death rate has also increased, along with mass migration with some 2 million Ukrainian guest workers decamping to Russia and Poland in search of work. This is a slow-motion demographic calamity.
Moreover, none of the economic indicators carry any hope of a long-term revival. The fact of economic disaster as measured in various statistics is, however, unmistakable: 2018 figures indicate per capita income languishing at US$3113.00 (compared to Angola US$3437.00). Debt as a % of GDP minus-2.15 Angola 2.19. Trade Balance for Angola stands at 25.3% Ukraine’s trade balance stands at -7.41% as a percentage of GDP. Unemployment stands at (officially at least) 10%, and in terms of external trade the current account has not been positive since 2003, those glorious days which gave rise to the ‘Orange revolution’. Finally, there are the rating agencies who provide the following ratings for Ukraine’s sovereign bonds– Moody’s B3, S&P B, Fitch B. B means below investment grade if we are being polite, junk bonds if we are not. (3) The currency – the hryvnia, exchange rate against the British pound is £1 = 34, hyrvinia. When I was last in Ukraine (2012) you would get only between 8 and 12 hyrvnia for a £. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe being pushed down to bottom by the next basket case above, Moldova. Welcome to the Sunflower Republic.
All of this in spite of the IMF’s loans and its unilateral debt forgiveness of the Ukraine’s outstanding sovereign debt to Russia which had become due. In doing this the IMF infringed its own constitution. As Michael Hudson explains:
‘’The IMF broke four of its rules by lending to Ukraine: (i) Not to lend to a country that has no visible means to pay back the loan (the “No More Argentinas” rule, adopted after the IMF’s disastrous 2001 loan to that country). (ii) Not to lend to a country that repudiates its debt to official creditors (the rule originally intended to enforce payment to U.S.-based institutions). (iii) Not to lend to a country at war – and indeed, destroying its export capacity and hence its balance-of-payments ability to pay back the loan. Finally (iv), not to lend to a country unlikely to impose the IMF’s austerity “conditionalities.” Ukraine did agree to override democratic opposition and cut back pensions, but its junta proved too unstable to impose the austerity terms on which the IMF insisted.’’
This was obviously a political decision made by an organization which is supposed to be politically neutral.
NOTES
(1) Matthew Raphael Johnson – Euro-Maidan – Liberal Capitalism – and the Ukrainian Fiasco – 08.06.2016
“One would have thought that this mutating revolution in the Ukraine would have drawn attention of the centre-left to the fact that fascism had gained a vital beachhead in Europe, and that the danger signals should be flashing. But not a bit of it; a perusal of the Guardian newspaper quickly reveals that their chief concern has been with a non-existent ‘Russian threat’. One of their reporters – our old friend, Luke Harding -described Right Sector as an ‘’eccentric group of people with unpleasant right-wing views.’’ Priceless!”
As a Ukrainian myself I am ashamed and do not like what is going on. It is truly sad when I look at what has befallen my country. However with all due respect to Mr. Francis Lee the answer to the quote above is the article from Mr. Ajamu Baraka, running mate of Jill Stein for the Green Party in 2016 US Elections (the best choice for American People):
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/04/03/ukraine-21st-century-neo-fascism-left-wing-support-imperialism-white-supremacy/
The article above is well written and describes very well why West supports Neo-Nazis. None of this is surprising, given the fact how the West treated the rest of humanity over the 500 years. As Thucydides, Athenian historian once remarked, concerning Athenian Empire over 2500 years ago “The tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself”. The death and destruction that West has perpetrated on others have migrated home in the form of WWI and WWII, Fascism, Nazism. It was the West, led by the United States that aided and armed Nazi Germany in order to destroy the Soviet Union. Nazism was the monster created and nurtured by the West. One of the industrialists, Henry Ford wanted to meet Adolf Hitler. Also, let us not forget that US supports Israel, no matter what. Regime which kills innocent civilians, including children. And Saudi Arabia, the country that is leading exporter of Wahabism (most of 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia), has one of the worst human rights abuses in the world. Women in Saudi Arabia have not been given the right to vote until 2015. In my opinion, there is not much of a difference between Neo Nazis and Israeli along with Saudi Arabian regimes.
As concerning Economy statistics, and GDP, I will say what is the point of having a strong economy and a big GDP, if people are unhappy and miserable, in spite of being surrounded by wealth and affluence. When I visited Ukraine, I saw some of my friends. They were poor by Western, especially North American standards, however I sensed they were happy and enjoyed life. Making material things center of your life will cause you misery.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90435788/a-nobel-winning-economist-says-its-time-to-kill-the-gdp
https://truthout.org/articles/america-what-happened/
In the end I just want to say that not all Ukrainians support what is happening. And it is difficult for Ukrainian people. When war happens, both sides suffer. Most of us want to live in peace and do not want this war. Sometimes you do get the impression that there is no war (if you visit other parts of Ukraine), however people are trying to survive through difficult times. Take care.
The criminals of Ukraine, mass murderers, assassins, torturers, human slavers, organ harvesters are the “stepchildren” of the EU, the adopted children of the US and Canada.
They are a protected class of proxies to foment Russophobia and terrorism against Russians.
Financing them through World Bank and IMF loans, corporate purchasing (pennies on the dollar) of assets are just means to the end which is to create hellish circumstances on the border with Russia.
Next will be naval troubles as the US ups the quality of vessels to foment chaos in the Azov and Black Sea.
It will end when Ukraine is destroyed.
“It will end when Ukraine is destroyed.”
It will not end when Ukraine is destroyed. The US is trying to stir the pot so to speak among republics of Russian Federation. Even without Ukraine, there will be other ways found to stir trouble for Russia, along with China. There are a lot of Ukrainians who have no love for the government. The Nazis are unlikely to go to major war. In my opinion Nazis at some level know that there is no support among the people for war. If there was, WWIII would already have happened. Believe me, it is difficult, and there is suffering on both sides. Children especially losing their parents is sad.
““It will end when Ukraine is destroyed.”
“It will not end when Ukraine is destroyed.”
“Yes, Ukraine will be destroyed by the combined actions of the EU, NATO and domestic oligarchs.”
Not defining either “Ukraine” or “destroyed” facilitates the dance/trance of here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bushness.
Or as Mr. Shakespeare noted “an exhalation of wind signifying nothing”.
Larchmonter445
Yes, Ukraine will be destroyed by the combined actions of the EU, NATO and domestic oligarchs. The 2014 coup d’etat against Yanukovich was an incredibly stupid move, and one which started a chain reaction which cannot be stopped, namely the inevitable collapse of Ukraine and it’s breakup into three parts, as analysts have been stating for years. The country is being plundered by Western corporations and domestic oligarchs, while the population has been reduced to feudal serfs. This is a recipe for disaster.
The article gives an inaccurate picture for the decline of Ukraine’s population by an incredible ten million, stating that two million Ukrainians went to Poland and Russia for employment. The figure is incorrect. By December of 2017, four million Ukrainians fled to the West, while another four million fled to Russia, with hundreds of thousands submitting petitions for Russian citizenship. The inevitable, of course, is happening. Western centers of power apparently forgot that Ukrainians are all of Russian origin, the exception being western Ukraine, the former Galicia, where you have mixed blood. This means that eastern and central Ukraine will rejoin Russia, while western Ukraine will be a center of contention between Poland, Hungary and Romania. Finally, when the EU, NATO and others instigated that coup d’etat against Yanukovich in 2014, I just laughed, as I knew what would happen. NATO and the EU grabbed Kiev, while Putin grabbed back Crimea. He is now sitting back in the Kremlin, waiting for the eastern and central parts of Ukraine to ask for reunification with Russia. This will be inevitable.
“Strange people are seen in cabinet posts having names without much connection with the ethnicity in question.”
Pardon, I do not understand. Which cabinet posts? What names? Which ethnicity? And what was in question?
Don’t play coy and naïve. You know what is being talked about. Think of all the strange sounding names of the ” Russian ” revolution.
I’ve lived in Alberta Canada my whole life – very, very few people here know the large Ukrainian population in the Edmonton area are descended from the Ukrainians that supported Hitler in WWII against Russia and had to flee when Russia defeated Hitler. This ‘interesting’ fact absolutely never comes up – even when Christia Freeland (Albertan) whose grandfather was a notorious high ranking Banderist becomes the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
And she’s in line to become the next liberal PM if everything goes their way.
This a case of chickens coming home to roost. The sad reality is Canada itself is guilty of terrible crimes against First Nations peoples. Broken treaties and promises, residential schools, stealing of land. Hitler got inspiration of concentration camps for Indian reservations. What do you expect then? Canada mostly follows US. Non eof this should be surprising.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/03/09/why-canada-defends-ukrainian-fascism/
Here it came up:
http://johnhelmer.net/?s=christia+freeland
Yasha Levine is currently writing on his blog a series about how former Nazi collaborators, fascist immigrants et al have been recruited and entrusted to Western nations after WWII and deliberately weaponized for anti-Soviet/Russian propaganda purposes.
RickOShea
The reason why Banderist Nazis were admitted to Canada was the same as why Croatian Ustasha Nazis were admitted to South America, Australia, and to a lesser extent to the US and Canada. They were intended as a future Trojan horse, to be sent back to Europe, the Banderists to Ukraine while the Ustasha back to Yugoslavia and Croatia. And indeed they were. The Banderists came back to Ukraine in 2014 while the Ustasha came back to Croatia in 1991 and 1992. And we all know what happened. Don’t forget that Canada is part of NATO, and that NATO is encircling both Russia and China.
“…alliance between the genuine anti-semites, not only in Ukraine but in the Baltics also, who are now allied with Zionists in the war against the emerging Eurasian bloc.”
Still trying to decipher the author’s elliptic language. The most “genuine anti-semites” I know of today are in the Zionazi state of Israel with their anti-Arab racism and their ruthless drang nach Lebensraum. But the author seems to be referring (as in his photo from Lwow) to genuine old-style anti-Jewish anti-semites: genocidal Polish Ukrainians who collaborated with Nazi Einsatzgruppen in Galicia — and to similar Nazi collaborators in Latvia and Lithuania. If so, the present artificial state of Ukraine is no mystery, with its Jewish cabinet in Parliament allied to former anti-Jewish Galitzian stormtroopers on the streets. It is an alliance of modern Zionazis with historic Slavonazis. All owned by the Zionazi Capitalists who own the UN, the U$A, Western Europe, Canada and Australia: and who hate unconquered Russia, China, Iran and Syria “for their Freedoms”.
“It is an alliance of modern Zionazis with historic Slavonazis.”
Excellent point and we have seen this in the Balkans as well. I would make a slight modification from “Slavonazis” to “Ortho-Slavo” Nazis.
The 3 groups the Original Nazis despised (not exclusive) were: 1. Jews 2. Homosexuals/ Transsexuals 3. Slavs.
Todays Neo-nazis have embraced the first two groups but have focused the hatred of the third group specifally to Orthodox Slavs.
There has been a Ukrainian community in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK since WW2. While the large Polish community there is linked to the Free Polish Army under General Sikorsky (and that used to be the second largest in the UK, after Leicester, where Sikorsky had lived) the origins of the Ukrainian community (the largest in the UK) is not clear. When ||I lived in Bradford, I always suspected that they cem from the ranks of those who had supported the Nazis. In the 1970s when one saw me reading a copy of Pravda in the Central Library, he asked me if I was Russian, and lost interest in talking to me when I said no.
I still suspect that these people arrived in the Uk at the same time and by the same means as those who went to the USA and Canada.
I think it boils down to this:
All liberals — especially the minuscule fraction in Russia proper — hate Russia, the state and the citizenry, with a passion. Although they pretend otherwise, they couldn’t possibly care less about WW2, especially the hogwash about Ukro ”patriots” waging war against foreign ”totalitarianism”. Russia, as personified by Vladimir Putin, destroyed their overwhelming joy and absolute self-confidence just when liberal total victory against Russia seemed imminent (they had already lost in China a decade earlier).
The ordinary Euro-trash and Ukro garbage will feel happy as long as they are fed their WW2 victimology fairy-tales, courtesy of the West’s ”intelligentsia”. But, alas, they will also feel miserable as long as Stalin — rightfully — remains popular in Russia.
“The open support given by the entire western media and political establishments to the regime now ensconced in Kiev should give cause for concern,”
More likely cause of opportunities rather than “cause for concern” as has been the case throughout.
However the products of your and others’ spectatorship do have utility including but not limited to minimising blowback to spectators.
In February 2014 a small procession left the US embassy carrying a small number of plastic carrier bags, went down the hill and entered Maidan (Independence Square) from the back {not the front on Kreshatik where the Post Office is}, possibly to avoid the line of fire of snipers atop the hotel Ukraina on the other side of Kreshatik.
On arriving in “Independence Square” the “social workers” started to dispense plain bulka to the congregation giving rise to wry remarks which I paraphrase including but not limited to:
“These cheapskate **** don’t even give out bulka with soft cheese and raisins”. spoken in a Ternopil/Lviv accent.”
“Where the **** are the fish ?” by a probable believer spoken in some kind of Galician accent, precise location not pinpointed.
“Where the *** is the salt” which received the response “Its our country, we are meant to offer the salt and bread to visitors”.
“Where is the sernik {cheescake}, these **** invented it, so why didn’t they bring it?”
The “sample” above was restricted to those with “Western Ukrainian” accents carrying guns, with some also wearing types of uniforms.
This was probably the source of graffiti on a side wall of a block of flats on the right hand side just past Victory Square on the road to Nivki which read “I want sernik” in both Russian and Ukrainian.
The languages spoken on “Independence Square” were not restricted to English, Russian and Ukrainian, and some tourists may have been the scions of former residents, who may have been beneficiaries of the “Last Exodus”.
Given context it was not deemed appropriate at that juncture to conduct a fuller opinion poll.
On the opposite side of the road from Victory Square towards Nivki by the Politechnik University lies the childhood home of Mikhail Bulgakov, but Kiev has been the birthplace of many humourist and illusionists as even “Western Ukrainian” tourists are aware, some tourists also likely having experience of the “Soviet Union”.
Some of the above was directed through this portal in 2014 before flying in Iceland.
” “I want sernik”
The grafitti actually read “I want sernik with cinnamon”(candela) – the “artist” probably being one with exalted expectations which were soon disappointed.
Further information on where the side of the building was :
Second apartment block after Victory Square before the turn-off to the Russian Embassy and the old airport, on the road to Nivki and points West.
Despite being colourful and useful to those with greater ambitions than delivering plain bulka whilst supposedly delivering democracy, the grafitti was removed within 24 hours.
“It should be said that during this early period Bandera himself had been incarcerated by the German authorities up until his release in 1944, since unlike Bandera they were not enamoured of an independent Ukrainian state but wanted total control. Bandera was only released at this late date since the German high command was endeavouring to build up a pro-German Ukrainian quisling military force to hold up the remorseless advance of the Red Army.”
Framing including what-is-framed-in/what-is-framed-outness can facilitate misrepresentation.
Perhaps misrepresentation can be at least in part be avoided by further exploring the trajectories of both the Galician division and Mr. Bandera – your assertions on Mr. Konovelts being controversial, some including Mr. Sudoplatov opining that there was a level of Polish agency/co-operation throughout in the matter.
The Galician division was facilitated by a joint effort of the SD and the Governor of Galicia SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiher von Wachter primarly, but not exclusively, for internal “political/security” purposes. This pitch was made to the head of the SS Mr. Himmler and with the aid of his deputy Mr. Karl Wolff pitched to Mr. Hitler.
Mr. Hitler agreed to return to a previous position he had held in regard to Slavs during his association with Aufbau from 1920 to 1923 and subsequent mutations/associates of Aufbau until Spring 1943 when the Galician division was constituted.
Even before 1943 the German High Command was not held in high regard and hence the needs and opinions of the German High Command were of lesser import, but in 1944 and subsequent encouraging the emphasis on the Galician Division was created by the German High Command to ” hold up the remorseless advance of the Red Army.” had increasing utility.
As part of the Bagration implimentation the original Galician division was largely destroyed by Soviet forces at Brody in July 1944, although Mr. Bandera and others were held back for other more political/security purposes which included, but was not limited to, a stay-behind role as part of larger sleeper networks, some of which included former students of Trawniki, left in Ukraine under the control of the SD.
As an added bonus the Battle of Brody added more “plausible beleif to the myth that “the Galician Division was created by the German High Command to ” hold up the remorseless advance of the Red Army.”
There were several final surrenders of the German forces in May 1945, including the final surrender of German and their allied forces (including the reconstituted Galician Division with added extras) in Italy, agreed between Mr. Karl Wolff representing Mr. Himmler and Mr. Allen Dulles purportedly representing himself facilitating “plausible denial”.
Part of the “sweetners” in facilitation of the “final surrender” was the discussion of transfer of sleeper networks in Eastern Europe under the control of the SD, and the creation of possible rebranded organisations to transfer other SD resources, which ultimately was achieved by the creation of the BND in Munich in the “US zone of occupation).
The members of the Galician division were not repatriated to the Soviet Union as per “Allied joint protocols” but many were repatriated to Scotland.
Some were recruited by MI6 for training in Crail in Fife, including by some lecturers from St. Andrew’s University who had been emigres from the end of the Russian Civil War, and who unlike many did not decide to become emigres in Weimar Germany, some to remain in the “United Kingdom”, and some to pursue their trades in “the Dominions” including Australia and Canada.
Some were recruited and trained to return to their native countries to join, act as liasons, and attain status of leaders of sleeper networks created by British, Czech,German,Hungarian,and Polish “intelligence” primarily in the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine – a pooling of assets.
This pool facilitated drowning of assets, and hence through a “red web” co-ordinated largely by Soviet resources in Moscow and Riga, by 1954 the drowning was largely complete, whilst some decided to choose other pools in which to swim.
As a kind of token of reconciliation the Politburo in Moscow transfered Crimea to the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Now to return to Mr. Bandera and pose some questions some of which has been posed before.
Whatever happened to Stepan Bandera ? – the normal response being he was shot in Munich in 1954 by the Russians.
Spectators are often of the view that answers are the most illuminating, where as practitioners would tend to suggest that questions are the most illuminating, since questions/hypotheses when tested facilitate “validated” answers.
So:
Why in Munich?
Why in 1954?
Who were (plural) complicit ? – a technical question derived from how to do a hit?
Where did the practitioner go after the deed ?- a technical question derived from how to do a hit?
Who were (plural) complicit in facilitating the practitioner going after the deed? – a technical question derived from how to do a hit?
In addition these also facilitated the Horst Wesseling of Stepan Bandera.
All of the above gave rise to the paradox of the meeting of the social workers bearing gifts and the congregation on “Independence Square” in February 2014 and the subsequent Pandora’s box of opportunities.
Some historical context is in order. There is no disagreement with Mr Lee’s assertions but having read the piece above, one would conclude that Nazism is part of the genetic disposition of western Ukrainians.
Under Polish rule, Ukrainians in the western areas around Lviv, were allowed one of the following two career choices
1) become a teacher
2) become a priest
That’s it. While I do not condone the mass murder that ensued, one can further understand the inhumanity of oppressed people when let loose on their previous overlords.
Under Soviet rule, the merchants, tavern keepers, owners of salt concessions, etc were the Jewish entrepreneurs. It can be argued that they succeeded to these positions based on their business acumen or by the fact that the Soviets wisely placed the Jews between themselves & their Ukrainian underlings.
If any group felt beaten down, it was the western Ukrainians and this was perfectly exploited by the advancing Germans. They promised the world and independence but delivered lead or prison(My Mother survived Ravensbruck).
As a modern nation, there is little or no immigration into Ukraine, as it certainly is not a magnet for economic refugees. I can confirm, that I have never met a more xenophobic group of people than current day Ukrainians. Once again, a weakness that was perfectly exploited by the colour revolution specialists.
Yes Gary – many Ukrainians & many Baltic refugees transitted through Yorkshire. Many worked there as indentured gardeners, landscapers, farm hands, until they were able to board vessels for N America. It was a way out of the DP camps in Germany.
”I can confirm, that I have never met a more xenophobic group of people than current day Ukrainians. Once again, a weakness that was perfectly exploited by the colour revolution specialists.”
The funny thing about Ukro xenophobia is that by now, as compared to 2013/2014, it should have ’matured’ to be all-encompassing. It was easy for George Soros, Victoria Nuland, and Angela Merkel to seduce the Ukros into slobbering over their prospect as great and glorious Europeans forever in spotless shining harmony with peoples that matter.
Seven and a half years later, Ukraine has nothing to show for it (the only exception is https://youtu.be/ApmgFPWzMFc ). It’s a depopulating and deindustrializing poor backwater rife with crime and alcoholism. After such a betrayal from the Pindos and the Euro-trash and given the ongoing colour revolution in the US that trashes White supremacy altogether, the Ukros might be forgiven for becoming all-out xenophobes. Reactionaries without friends and future are quite entertaining to watch.
Please stop this. Not all Ukrainians support and support what has happened. Please read this article by Andre Vltchek. He was in Ukraine and he saw situation on the ground with his own eyes. He spoke with living, breathing people face to face.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/11/ukraine-lies-and-realities/
It is difficult for people and both sides suffer in the war. There are Ukrainians who do not like what is happening. There are occasions where it tears families apart. Just to give you one example. I visited a girl in Ukraine and her family in Vinnytsa. Her mother has relatives in Lugansk and they are fully on the side of Russia. And I have friends who told me that they believe protestors were paid to protest in Maidan square. Situation is complex and cannot be reduced to simple explanations. I have talked to my friends back in 2013, months leading up to Maidan. They complained to me about corruption in the government. This is a genius of the Empire. Control of the narrative. The sad truth is this is not confined to Ukraine. Here is another article by Andre Vltchek. I disagree on some views of Andre, however he traveled the world, and been to many countries. Saw situation with his own eyes and spoke with many people face to face:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/in-countries-destroyed-by-the-west-people-should-stop-admiring-the-u-s-and-europe/5668956
The Empire has perfected the art of propaganda extremely well. Even the ones who were destroyed by the empire, seem to admire it. If we are to have a better world, we must challenge and deconstruct such propaganda. Control of the narrative is the corner stone of the empire’s control of the world.
“Control of the narrative is the corner stone of the empire’s control of the world.”
Some evaluate the sentence above as being simplistic on many levels hence simultaneous precluding and/or limiting opportunities of some of lateral challenge and transcendence, whilst encouraging/facilitating opportunities of others lateral challenge and transcendence with the minimum blowback.
“The Empire has perfected the art of propaganda extremely well.”
In any inter-dynamic system neither omniscience nor perfection can ever be attained.
In any inter-dynamic system neither sole agency nor control can ever be attained.
The hubris of opponents are lands of opportunity.
If you are so minded test these hypotheses whilst remembering that if you are lying on your stomach even a small dog can seem tall and imposing. (An illustration of the interaction of perception and perspective {pre-existing expectations a.k.a. prejudice as prism of perception}).
What is propaganda ?
It is an attempt at communication/coercion dependent on the facility of the propagandists/those attempting to coerce others, and the complicity/hopes/interpretations of others in the “plausible belief”, the appropriateness, potency/significance, and veracity of the outputs of the propagandists/those attempting to coerce others.
“The sad truth is this is not confined to Ukraine.”
This is not confined to Ukraine but on many levels it is not sad, but a portal of opportunity if the purpose is to transcend the opponents with the minimum of blowback.
However the opponents believe/hope that “the complicity/hopes of others in the “plausible belief” in the appropriateness, potency and veracity of the outputs of the propagandists/those attempting to coerce others” is a cornerstone of their control”, whilst attempting to control facilitates blowback thereby precluding control.
“…we must challenge and deconstruct such propaganda.”
Words are catalysts of connotations and to some “we” catalyses the connotation “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident.”
The opponents’ attempts at propaganda are in part informed by Mr. Rove’s observation that “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you should concentrate on.”
Some do assign the significance to others that others seek to assign to themselves.
“”The Empire has perfected the art of propaganda extremely well.”
When outcomes diverge from expectations the opponents often resort to belief to bridge doubt to attain confirmation bias.
Some suggest that this in not an indicator of control and/or extremely wellness, but of lack of control and/or extremely ineptness.
“Situation is complex and cannot be reduced to simple explanations.”
Quite so but apparently you ignore that the ” “Situation is complex and cannot be reduced to simple explanations.” by your assertion that “Control of the narrative is the corner stone of the empire’s control of the world.” as some others have consistently done in respect of the interactions of the Ukraine and other locations on the earth by regular resort to “Russia must …. ness” and “Stop the…….ness”.
Modesty in regard to facility often facilitates continued well-being and well, being, whilst the “American way” seeks to deny this despite burgeoning data-streams and silences not always broadcast to convince “Americans” of the errors of their ways..
I thought it was a very good article.But there is one point I want to bring up.Where the article says ” The violence was endorsed by a significant number of the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy who supported UPA’s nationalist cause”. I think the author has confused the so-called Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Uniate) which though following the Eastern Rite,is part of the Roman Catholic Church. It is very large in West Ukraine,and most of the UPA were members of that church.Today it is still important among Ukrainian neo-nazis.
” but having read the piece above, one would conclude that Nazism is part of the genetic disposition of western Ukrainians.”
Like Mr. Goldhagen’s “hypotheses” on the inherent predeliction of Germans to “anti-semitism” relying on genetic disposition of an entire population is nonsense.
Other components framed out of the article is the nationalities policy of the Second Polish Republic (1919 – 1939) in contradiction to agreements entered into by them at the Treaty of Versailles by their authorised delegation, and the strategic settlement of former Legionaires policies of the Second Polish Republic “securing” the state particularly on its North-Eastern, Eastern and South Eastern borders.
These components facilitated the creation of OUN-OUP and inter-ethnic discrimination/internment/violence which increased after the creation of the OZON government, further increased after the demise of the Polish Republic in 1939 until 1941, futher increased by the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and even more so after the German retreats of early 1943 which also encouraged increased and co-ordinated partisan activity, leading to the creation of the Galician Division incorporating some members of OUN-OUP, and the framing of the Galician Division’s political/security roles.
Through the framing of “The Second World” “Western historical discourse with the limited exception of some practitioners who investigate to do rather than to review including by conflating analysis/agreement//evangelism, often fails to acknowledge/perceive that the “Eastern front” simultaneously consisted of various civil wars and war between the Soviet Union and Germany, its allies and ideological fellow-travellers, and that de-facto limited or close to no alliance existed between “The United Nations” in that war, but rather ocassions of co-operation at times of advantage to some but not necessarily to all, particularly in respect of Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
Hence the campaigns often contained within the frame “Second World War” are/were perceived by some as at least four or even five wars, one in Europe 1939 to 1941, another in Europe 1941 – 1945 within which “The United Nations” were ununited ocassionally pursuing different purposes, another in North Africa and the Levant,one in South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean late 1941 – 1945, and the Sino-Japanese war 1937 – 1945.
Mr. Putin was diplomatic citing a 7% contribution of materiel by the “allies” to the Soviet War effort by not explaining whether 7% was based on cost, or whether 7% was based on quantity, whether the 7% was to be paid and whether it was paid including any interest after the war and over what period.
“Hence the campaigns often contained within the frame “Second World War” are/were perceived by some as at least four or even five wars,”
The SD and some others perceived a sixth war from 1944 – 1945 in Western Europe to limit the extent of the advance of the Soviet Union into Europe by alliance between “The Western Powers” and Germany.
For various reasons in 1944 this alliance/association was perceived to be premature, but became more acceptable by 1945.
Consequently discussions and agreements were entered into in 1945 including between Mr. Karl Woolf and Mr. Allen Dulles; presently represented as the surrender of Italy to obfuscate an wider-ranging agreement to facilitate the US Empire in Europe with the aid/complicity of a “New Germany” and certain classes/organisations in other areas of Europe, including but not limited to the Roman Catholic Church, which was further obfuscated by the temporary four power occupation of Austria and Germany deemed to be rendered obsolete by the creation of NATO..
Mr. Suslov was also of this view and hence his observation that the “The United States of America” had been at war with the “Soviet Union” from the inception of the Soviet Union in 1922, some seeing the inter-relations to date as continuing that state of affairs.
Many narratives have been constructed about “The Second World War” but few histories have been written.
Although many of an emotional/romantic disposition would not/do not agree, it was largely due to the hubris of their governments in exile in London, “strategies” determined/designed by their governments in exile based in London, and the creation of subsequent myths to obfuscate the unsurprising ensuing strategic disasters, that facilitated Czechoslovakia and Poland becoming the “but not necessarily to all” of the “United Nations” – some Polish forces not even being invited to the “Victory in Europe” parade in London.
In respect of Czechoslovakia the strategy based on hubris was the assassination of Mr. Heydrich and its unsurprising responses which cowed the Bohemian and Moravian population sufficiently to ensure that Bohemia and Moravia remained a major supplier of material to Germany, out of bombing range until the autumn of 1944.
In respect of Poland the strategy based on hubris was the Warsaw Uprising from August 1st 1944 and its unsurprising response of scorched earth policy by their opponents, rendering necessary the creation of the myth by non-strategists with illusions on logistical facilities/requirements of armies, and of the physical geography, including relative elevations of the right and left banks of the Vistula, plus the distances and other characteristics of that river between Praga and the central districts of Warsaw.
The persisting myth created by the Polish government in exile in London was that for political reasons the Red Army stopped on the right bank of the Vistula to ensure the maximum of “Polish patriots” were destroyed to ensure Soviet rule in Poland and the destruction of Polish catholicism..
From 1919 to date some self-styled ”Ukrainian patriots” have also based their “strategies” on hubris
rendering themselves food sources and human shields for others, whilst being recipients of plain bulka delivered by “visitors”.
Before WW2 there were many Armenians in southern Ukraine.
During the war the OUN and UIA massacred most along with Roma, Russians, Poles, and Jews.
Amazing the hypocrisy of Jews that since 2014 give the fascists of Ukraine cover for their crimes.
In Canada the Ukrainian descendants of fascists nearly control the government.
In the US there are small towns of descendants of Ukrainian fascists that have monuments to their fascist war criminals. Allen Dulles made every effort to bring as many as possible into the US after war along with Nazi Germans. Some of the latter trained under the US eye the police that committed terrible massacres and tortures in Central and South America.
“During the war the OUN and UIA massacred … Armenians….Roma,Russians, Poles, and Jews”
The also massacred ethnic Ukrainians with the “wrong” politics, family connections, and “no politics” in futherance of attempts at creating a one ethnic state of Ukrainians – a Ukrainian Volksgemeinschaft.
“In Canada the Ukrainian descendants of fascists nearly control the government.”
If you are referring to Chrystia Freeland, the current Deputy Prime Minister, you are sadly mistaken. She has about as much influence as a melted ice cream cone. Ever since she was removed as Foreign Affairs Minister by the Liberal Party leadership, she has been incommunicado. Politically speaking, she was an embarrassment to the country as none of her counterparts in other countries would take or return her telephone calls. Deputy Prime Minister is essentially a ceremonial post.
Ukrainians in Canada are important only at election time – that’s when you witness the various politicians donning their embroidered vyshyvanka shirts and mingling with the crowds at various festivals in the summer/fall season.
And when Canada needs a little ‘white power’ to scare the public and get the anti-semites to tow the line, there is no shortage of Orc thugs to carry the zio mantle.
Cheers, M