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Nazism in Ukraine
chronicle
Any dilettante in History and politics is aware of Nazi kernels in eastern Europe. Like any predatory ideology, such inspiration may become a global threat if not addressed on time, has shown once more the actuality. The issue is long-term and this article will be updated when necessary and possible. The focus will be on the current front line of Western civilization against the Asiatic hordes : Ukraine.
As a dummy, I assume that such State is somehow neurotic, after what the common local opinion is regarding as a bullied independence through History. Nationalism is heightened. Nationalists are seeking in history a static common identity, need strong symbols and what makes them Nazis in that instance are their historical references. Their heroes were Nazis during WW2, have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The issue has not been seriously addressed, because the West is complacent, needs this heightened nationalism for its own strategic purpose against Russia. That Nazism is the product of Nazi roots, neurotic nationalism and Western agenda. How funny are the Western media for a dozen years. The issue was often a subject when tribute was paid to some Nazi heros, but a gag order is enforced since February 24, 2022, beginning of the Russian special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine, where according to the new common assumption, there is no Nazi problem or even no Nazi.
Our post-truth era and fickle media make the investigation more difficult. But I have found a serious source. US journalist Lev Golinkin is documenting the recent erections of monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators, notably in Ukraine.
There are hundreds of statues and monuments in the United States and around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust. As part of an ongoing investigation, the Forward has, for the first time, documented them in this collection of articles. For an initial guide to each country’s memorials click here. For a 2022 update to the investigation, click here
Exciting
Historical benchmarks
- February 15, 1919
Benito Mussolini will start governing Italy in October 1922, Adolf Hitler will become Kanzler in January 1933, Francisco Franco will win the Spanish civil war in April 1939, but in the Russian empire, sporadic anti-Semitic pogroms are already a tradition. At night, more than 2,000 Jewish civilians are slaughtered in Proskurov and vicinity. In order to save ammunition, lances and bayonets are used
The assassins are irregular Cossacks, fighters for the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR), have seized the city from the Bolsheviks. The UNR has been declared in June 1917, amid Russian revolution, will be defeated. The Bolsheviks will create the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922. During that war in Ukraine, the nationalists will have slaughtered between 50,000 and 250,000 Jewish civilians.
In Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, literacy will be a major ambition. Dozens new universities will be founded, in order to train new teachers. But the program will not cover western Ukraine, Polish territory until 1939. The next generation of Ukrainian nationalists will be a nebula of Nazi collaborator organizations (cf. infra)
- May 25, 1926
Samuel Schwarzbard (left) is a French-Russian citizen, an injured and decorated fighter within French ranks during WW1, a communist militant, a revolutionary in Petrograd in 1917, a Bolshevik fighter in Ukraine against nationalist and White forces, a watchmaker and a poet
Back in Paris, he manages to shoot dead Symon Petliura (right), the former head of the former Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR). Twelve members of Schwarzbard’s family were among 50,000, at the very least, Jewish civilians whom the Ukrainian nationalists have slaughtered between 1917 and 1922. The French court will acquit him, because he will have avenged the victims of the massacres.
- July 19, 1941
Then named Lemberg, Lwow was a city of the Austro-Hungarian empire until the end of WW1, returned after to the new republic of Poland. WW2 began on September 1, 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, that Soviet Union invaded from the east on September 17. The Polish garrison surrendered to the Red Army on September 22 and the region was attached to Soviet Ukraine.
On June 22, 1941, the Nazi armies started their invasion of Soviet Union. Among the invaders, nationalist battalion Nachtigall entered on June 29 the city that the Ukrainians are naming Lviv. The offensive has resumed eastward and Vinnitsa is occupied on July 19. In an internal report from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), written later in 1944, the author will remind how they slaughter the Jewish civilians in the region of Vinnitsa
The first hundred [company] of the Legion will drive in the Tarnopil-Vinnytsia direction. After a week’s daily life in Lviv, the second and third depart in the same direction as the first. The designated daily route is 30 km. We make it easier for ourselves by sitting in groups on empty German cars and there we drive to Glynyk, and from there we drive through Ternopil, and from there through Zbruch to Saganiv village. Our first stop was in Michalpol. From there, through Proskuriv, they stopped for a longer stay in Yuzvin near Vinnytsia. During our permarch, we witnessed the victims of the Jewish-Bolshevik terror, this sight also cemented our hatred for the Jews, that in two villages we shot all the Jews in the ribbon. I remember one fragment. During our permarch, many wandering people were seen in front of one village. The answer to the question is that the Jews are threatening them and they are afraid to spend the night in their houses. As a result of this, we shot all the Jews there. In Yuzvin, we have already connected with a whole group of people. Here we learned that the first hundred had a battle with the Bolsheviks near Vinnytsia. As a result, 3 of our shooters were wounded, and some were sent to the memorial service. Only Lieutenant Kalina received the Cross of Merit. All others submitted for recognition were not recognized, perhaps only for political reasons. In Lviv, we were granted the right to wear blue and yellow [Ukrainian national colors] ties on epaulettes as a legion banner
In occupied Poland, the Abwehr [German military intelligence] has formed the Bataillon Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall in February 1941, in order to conduct special operations against Soviet Union. The recruits were volunteers from the OUN.
- September 29, 1941
A placard has appeared in Kiev, that the German Nazi forces have seized on September 19, after 45 days of Soviet resistance
All Yids of the city of Kiev and its vicinity must appear on Monday, September 29, by 8 o’clock in the morning at the corner of Mel’nikova and Dokterivskaya streets. Bring documents, money, valuables and also warm clothing, linen etc. Any Yids who do not follow this order and are found elsewhere will be shot. Any civilians who enter the dwellings left by Yids and appropriate the things in them will be shot
These families are led to Babi Yar ravine, Kiev northwestern suburb, where more than 30,000 victims are shot. The executioners are Ukrainian auxiliaries and mainly, the German Einsatzgruppe C, in charge of the genocide of Jews in northern and central Ukraine.
- October 22, 1941
Stanisławów was Austro-Hungarian until 1919, Polish until 1939, when the Red Army occupied it in September, on the territory of Soviet Ukraine until July 2, 1941, when the Nazi armies seized it. Stanislaviv is its Ukrainian name
Hans Frank is Generalgouverneur für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete [general governor for the occupied Polish territories], makes a tour. The Ukrainian nationalists parade in his honour. In 1962, the city will be renamed Ivano-Frankivsk.
- August 2, 1942
Краківські вісті [Krakivs’ki Visti, Krakow news] is since January 7, 1940, a Ukrainian daily newspaper in Krakow, Nazi capital of the Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete [general government for the occupied Polish territories]. Its printing press has been confiscated from a Jewish owner. Its editorial team is gathering Ukrainian nationalists who have fled in September 1939 the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland and have got under protection of Nazi Germany
Krakivs’ki Visti is publishing translations of articles from German newspapers and also original ones. The editorial line is strongly pro German, anti Soviet and antisemitic. In brief, the newspaper is a Nazi propaganda organ.
Its editor-in-chief is Mykhailo Khomiak, who will flee the victory of Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, will emigrate to Canada, where his name will become Michael Chomiak. On August 2, 1968, Chomiak will become the maternal grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister of Canada on November 20, 2019. Despite the evidences, Freeland will deny the collaboration of her grandfather with Nazi Germany, will regard these facts as a Russian disinformation campaign
- March 22, 1943
A massacre among thousands ones that the Nazis will have committed in Belarus during WW2 : as retaliation for an ambush that Soviet partisans have carried out the same day, 6 km away, the Nazi forces storm Khatyn, a peaceful village about 60 km northeast of Minsk. All inhabitants are driven in a shed which is then set ablaze. Machine gun fire kills those who attempt to escape. About 150 people, including 75 children, are slaughtered
The assassins are members of the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118, a Ukrainian auxiliary police formation, recruited within the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN). Some were previously involved in the massacre of Jewish families in Babi Yar on September 29, 1941 (cf. supra).
The last alive member of the battalion, Vladimir Katriuk, a machine gunner, will have managed to emigrate to Canada, where he will die on May 22, 2015.
- March 26, 1943
Ivan Tremjanjuk is a 22-year-old Hilfswilliger Wachmann [volunteer auxiliary guard]. Since November 1942, he has already worked in Majdanek Vernichtungslager [extermination camp], is transferred that day to Sobibor, also in Poland. He appears in this photo among his comrades, at the center of the front row
Tremjanjuk was born in a village near Vinnitsa, Soviet Ukraine, worked in a collective farm, was drafted into the Red Army in 1940. After the German invasion in June 1941, the Nazis took him prisoner of war (POW). He has later volunteered for the formation to become guard of concentration camp.
In October 1943, he will be transferred to Flossenbürg Zwangsarbeitslager [forced labor camp], in Bavaria. After the Nazi defeat, he will be refugee in West Germany. In 1952, he will immigrate to the US, where he will be naturalized in 1958, will change his first name to John.
In May 2009, he will be extradited to Germany. On 12 May 2011, aged 91, he will be convicted as an accessory to the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor camp and sentenced to five years in prison with two years already served. He will appeal but will die in March 2012.
- April 23, 1943
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) has been formed on October 14, 1942, as the military branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), its faction that Stepan Bandera is leading, in Nazi occupied Poland and Ukraine.
In eastern Poland before WW2, Janowa Dolina is a model settlement for the workers of the Polish State Basalt Quarry
Before dawn, with the reinforcement of Ukrainian peasants, elements of the UPA, under command of Ivan Lytwynchuk, attack the village. 600 Poles, both genders, all ages, are hacked with axes, impaled or burned alive. The nearby German garrison does not interfere.
After WW2, Bazaltove will become the name of the site, in western Ukraine. After the independence in 1991, a nationalist monument will celebrate there the destruction of a base of Polish-German occupiers.
- April 28, 1943
Within the international Schutzstaffel (SS), a Ukrainian division is formed with volunteers from Galicia region, in German occupied eastern Poland, western Ukraine in 2022. German authorities pledge that the new formation will not confront Western allies, will fight the Bolshevi. In February 1944, the division will operate against Soviet and Polish anti-Nazi partisans. In July, the Red Army will sweep up the Ukrainian SS. After last fighting in Slovakia and Austria, war crimes everywhere, the survivors will surrender to the British and US forces in May 1945
After WW2, 8,500 Ukrainian SS will find refuge in UK and Canada.
- July 11, 1943
With the reinforcement of Ukrainian peasants, elements of the UPA attack in Kisielin, Poland before 1939, the Roman Catholic church where Polish worshipers has gathered on Sunday. At least 60 men, women and children are gunned down. The wounded are killed with axes and knives
Janowa Dolina and Kisielin are emblematic sites in eastern Poland of an ethnic cleansing which is killing at least 50,000, maybe 100,000 Poles, between 1943 and 1945
In 2022, the Ukrainian nationalists will still dare portray OUN and UPA as respectable resistance organizations against Nazi Germany and Soviet Union (cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022).
- February 28, 1944
In German occupied southeastern Poland, Huta Pieniacka is a village where Polish inhabitants are sometimes sheltering anti-Nazi Soviet partisans. Under German command, Ukrainian SS (cf. supra, April 28, 1943) encircle and shell it in the morning. The storming begins at noon, with the reinforcement of UPA militiamen (cf. supra, April 23, 1943) and Ukrainian peasants. 900 civilians, men, women and children are slaughtered. The village is burnt, will never be rebuilt
- November 20, 1983
A plaque is unveiled at Bradford cathedral, Yorkshire, UK
Freedom for individuals. This plaque was unveiled by Yaroslav Stetsko, president of the Anti Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and dedicated by the very Rev. Brandon Jackson, Provost of Bradford, and the east European clergy on 20th Nov. 1983, to mark the 40th anniversary of the A.B.N. and the 20th anniversary of the Captive Nations Committee in Bradford, whose countries [Belarus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine] are denied their freedom
The Committee of Subjugated Nations (CSN) has been formed in Zhytomyr, occupied Soviet Ukraine, on November 22, 1943, after the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad, with representatives of Nazi organizations from eastern Europe -Hungarian Arrow Cross, Romanian Iron Guard, Ukrainian OUN (cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022)- under the aegis of Alfred Rosenberg’s (1893-1946) Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete [Reich ministry for the occupied eastern territories]. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Rosenberg was sentenced to death at Nuremberg, hanged on November 16, 1946
After the victory of Soviet Union, the CSN relocated to Munich, West Germany, where the British intelligence sponsored it, became in 1946 the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN), mainly Ukrainian, conducted guerilla in Soviet Ukraine and other missions for Western intelligence agencies. Its leader was Yaroslav Stetsko, until his death in 1986.
Born in Tarnopol, Austro-Hungarian empire, nowadays Ternopil, Ukraine, Yaroslav Stetsko (1912-1986) was a Ukrainian nationalist, an antisemitic and anticommunist militant, the deputy of Stepan Bandera (cf. infra, The local debates, June 30, 2022). He participated in the meetings with the Abwehr [German military intelligence], when special Bataillon Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall was formed in February 1941. He met Obersturmbannführer [SS lieutenant colonel] Otto Skorzeny in April 1944, in order to organize guerilla behind the lines of the victorious Red Army. Later leader of the ABN, he meets Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1983. Stetsko has built a lot of great relationships and networks. Soviet Union will be dissolved in 1991.
The infection of the State
- June 28, 1996
Four years, 10 months and 23 days after the dissolution of Soviet Union, Ukraine adopts a Constitution as its fundamental law. The article 16 states that
to ensure ecological safety and to maintain the ecological balance on the territory of Ukraine, to overcome the consequences of the Chornobyl catastrophe — a catastrophe of global scale, and to preserve the gene pool of the Ukrainian people is the duty of the State
- January 1, 2009
He would be 100 years old this day. With a new stamp, the Ukrainian State pays tribute to Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian Nazi leader during WW2 (cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022). Note the red and black colors of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a genocidal paramilitary formation between 1942 and 1945
The Ukrainian government is then the result of the orange revolution, right-wing, pro-West, pro-Europe. Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko are president and prime minister.
- January 22, 2010
Pro-West Viktor Yushchenko is claiming his will to continue to defend democracy in Ukraine but democratically, the people has decided to rout him in the first round of presidential election on January 17. The outgoing president will not participate in the second round and by decree, awards Nazi war criminal Stepan Bandera the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine.
On February 7, opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych will win the presidential election, against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko
In January 2011, the tribute to Bandera will be officially annulled. On February 21, 2014, a right-wing coup in Kiev (cf. infra, Local debates) will overthrow Yanukovych. In eastern Ukraine, Russian-speaking residents of Donbass will rise up against the Russophobia of the new authorities, who will disown them as terrorists, will send against them the loyal members of the army and Nazi paramilitaries.
- March 15, 2018
A civil war is tearing eastern Ukraine. Uzhhorod is a border town with Slovakia, at the southwestern end of the country. In black clothes, two hundred militants demonstrate with international white supremacist symbols, sun and Celtic crosses. Some other emblems are specifically Ukrainian, the red and black colors of the UPA (cf. supra, July 11, 1943), the Nazi Wolfsangel (cf. infra, June 15, 2019) and the flag of the Misanthropic division, an international Nazi organization which is based in Ukraine since 2013
These young people are members of Sich battalion, the military branch of Nazi Svoboda [liberty] party (cf. infra, Local debates, February 14, 2004). But that group is not an ordinary bunch of far-right agitators. Since August 2014, Sich is an official formation of special police, within the Ukrainian internal affairs ministry.
- March 23, 2018
In the US, the Congress approves the government spending bill, where a provision stipulates that
none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion [cf. infra, June 15, 2019]
To the press, Representative Ro Khanna states
[…] I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine […] The State Department should pressure Kiev to dissociate itself with this group and investigate whether any of our weapons or training have already been provided to them […]
- April 28, 2018
Today is the 75th anniversary of the 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (cf. supra, April 28, 1943). The Ukrainian State has released a set of stamps in tribute to prominent members of the Ukrainian Nazi formation
- August 24, 2018
Wish you health, comrade, was so far the slogan within the Ukrainian army,
Glory to Ukraine ! Glory to the heroes !
is the new one. Glory to Ukraine dates back to the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR, 1917-1922, cf. supra, February 15, 1919). The reply, Glory to the Heroes, appeared in April 1941, among OUN fascist militants (cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022), who were then settled in the Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete [general government for the occupied Polish territories].
- June 15, 2019
In Mariupol, Donbass, Azov regiment displays its emblem for the 5th anniversary of the liberation, its victorious crackdown on the pro-Russia uprising there
The Wolsfangel [wolf hook] was a 15th-century heraldic charge in Germany, not Poland nor Ukraine, that everybody would have forgotten, except specialists. But the Nazis have included it in their runic symbols system between the 1930s and 1945. Among the Ukrainian nationalists who started raising their racism as an ideology, after the dissolution of Soviet Union, the Social National Party (SNPU, cf. infra, Local debates, October 13, 1991) was created in western Ukraine and chose again the Wolfsangel as its emblem. Some Nazi rioters bore it on Maidan square (cf. infra, Local debates, February 21, 2014). The fascist militants became militias, have been later legalized as national battalions of volunteers, against the uprising in Donbass
- December 16, 2021
At the United Nations general assembly, Russia puts forward a resolution against
glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
Its relevance is great but its target is clear. 130 countries support the motion, two vote no, Ukraine and its main sponsor, the US. All members of the European Union, the historical birthplace of Nazism, abstain
The Ukrainian government has not implemented Minsk peace agreements. On Feburary 24, 2022, Russia will start a special military operation, for liberation of Donbass, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
- June 30, 2022
His anniversary is close and the Ukrainian State pays tribute to him with a new stamp
Roman Shukhevych (1907-1950) was a member of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), the faction that Stepan Bandera was heading, a Nazi agent and collaborator, commander of the Bataillon Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall, a Ukrainian combat formation within the German military intelligence, a captain within the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, an auxiliary police formation subordinated to the German Sicherheitspolizei. In August 1943, he became commander of the Ukrainian Insurgents Army (UPA). He was co-responsible of the slaughter of tens thousand Jewish and Polish civilians. The Soviet State security cornered and denazified him in Lviv, on March 5, 1950
- July 21, 2022
In Kiev, some Ukrainians pay tribute to fighters who have been killed in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic, Donbass, between March 11 and May 20, from the encirclement of the city to the surrender of the last defenders in Azovstal steel mill. Their corpses have been later exchanged
Have you noticed the symbol on the coffin ? The Wolsfangel (cf. supra, June 15, 2019). These funeral are for fallen service members of Azov regiment, a formation of the Ukrainian national guard, subordinate to the defense ministry.
The Wolfsangel is a symbol, but how Azov has performed since 2014 ? The national battalion of special police, a punitive formation, has cracked down on civilian unrest, deliberately shelled residential areas where no troops were stationed, no military value facility were set. During the siege of Mariupol, Azov has used civilians as human shields, detained civilian hostages in Azovstal steel mill. These war crimes have been the political expression of supremacists who are regarding the Russian-speaking separatists in Donbass as Untermenschen.
- August 5, 2022
In the decree 559/2022, the president establishes an award for the defense of Ukraine, which will be granted to service members, civil servants, members of voluntary formations of territorial communities and every person who has
carried out volunteer activities or otherwise actively contributed to the performance of tasks related to ensuring the implementation of measures to ensure the defense of Ukraine, the protection of the safety of the population and the interests of the State in connection with the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
Look at the shape that the four swords hilts are drawing. With no doubt whatsoever, that is a swastika.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not necessarily a Nazi, rather a former professional actor and an opportunist, maybe a crook. He has been elected on May 20, 2019, on the promise of peace in Donbass, but quickly, the leaders of the Nazi organizations have taught him what should be his policy if he loved life, according to former and famous US intelligence officer Scott Ritter. De facto, he did not disarm the Nazi militias like Azov regiment, did not implement Minsk agreements and the Ukrainian forces are carrying on with the deliberate terrorist shelling of civilians in separatist Russian-speaking Donbass. He is indeed enjoying life and according to the rumor, has earned several hundred million dollars in three years. The symbolism of the medal for the defense of Ukraine is a new clue that a strong fascist deep State is ruling the country, in accordance with its Western curators. In post Maidan Ukraine, Russian-speaking people have replaced Jews or Poles as Untermenschen.
- September 7, 2022
In the context of the Russian special military operation, the Ukrainian forces start an offensive between Kharkov and Izyum. The military vehicles and in consonance, propaganda channels on social networks, are displaying the same thick white cross
The Balkenkreuz [bar cross] was the common sign on German Panzer on September 1, 1939, when began the invasion of Poland and WW2. The symbol later evolved and remained until 1945
The Ukrainian soldiery has well understood the message and the version of the West backed fascist army will evolve much quicker
- October 14, 2022
Every year since 2015, the Ukrainian State is officially celebrating the Ukraine Defenders Day, an euphemism for the anniversary of a Nazi and genocidal organization, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022), which has been formed in 1942. No ambiguity that day on the site of the State Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
The same day, Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards the title of Hero of Ukraine to 99-year-old Myroslav Simchych, a documented war criminal. While he was captain within the UPA, on October 23, 1944, his men attacked a Polish village, where they slaughtered 81 civilians, men, women and children, 66 Poles, 14 Ukrainians and one Russian. After massacre and looting, the assailants burned 49 houses
(Ukrainian press)
- October 26, 2022
Kiev city council renames a street. The previous name was Malinovsky, the new one is Heroes of the Azov Regiment
Rodion Malinovsky (1898-1967) was born in Odessa, then Russian empire, now Ukraine, a Soviet marshal, commander in 1942 of the second Guards army, one architect of the victory against the Nazis at Stalingrad. Nazi militia in Kharkov in March 2014, national battalion of special police in May, attached to the Ukrainian national guard in November, Azov regiment (cf. supra, July 21) has been defeated in May 2022 in Mariupol.
Founder of the formation in 2014, Andriy Biletsky (1979-, center) speaks at the unveiling ceremony. Former member of the SNPU (social national party, cf. infra, Local debates, October 13, 1991) and Pravyi Sektor (right sector, cf. infra, Local debates, April 13, 2018), leader of the National Corps party, Biletsky is lieutenant colonel of police.
Representatives of the city council are present and also Maksym Zhorin, third commander of the regiment (2016-2017), officer within the SSO [special operations forces], who published on social networks on October 9, 2022, a video which is showing the assassination of collaborators, suspected pro-Russia civilians.
- November 4, 2022
At the United Nations, the Third Committee (social, humanitarian and cultural) approves eight draft resolutions. One is against
the glorification of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting monuments and holding public demonstrations in glorification of the Nazi past
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cambodia, the CAR, Cuba, the DPRK, Equatorial Guinea, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Vietnam have co-authored that draft resolution.
At the general assembly, another one has been approved on December 16, 2021 (cf. supra), against glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, racism, racial discrimination or xenophobia. Ukraine and the US have voted no, the whole European Union, birthplace of fascism and Nazism, has abstained.
Today, Ukraine and the Baltic States vote no. Moreover, in the context of the Russian special military operation for liberation of Donbass, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, a total of 52 countries vote no. Except the abstention of Turkey, the whole NATO votes no. Serbia abstains, Israel votes yes. Brazil, China, India, most South America, Africa and Arab world vote yes
Quod erat demonstrandum. In the context of its strategic support to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, through its votes, the Western block acknowledges that the denazification of Ukraine is a necessity
- November 13, 2022
Torches and Wolfsangel (cf. supra, June 15, 2019), Azov regiment (cf. supra, July 21, 2022) pays tribute at Sofia square, Kiev, to its fallen members during the siege of Mariupol
- November 18, 2022
While ambassador to Germany, his loudmouth became famous when on May 3, 2022, he called Kanzler Olaf Scholz a beleidigte Leberwurst [offended sausage]. More interesting was his interview on June 30. German journalist Tilo Jung pushed him hard and Andriy Melnyk openly articulated his political sensivity, appeared as an apologist and ardent fan of Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian Nazi leader during WW2 (cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022). He claimed that Bandera would not have been a mass murderer of Jews and Poles, nor a Nazi collaborator, that such accusations would be propaganda from Russia and Israel. But historical facts are cruel and Melnyk is a revisionist.
On June 9, Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed him (cf. infra, Local debates), like four other ambassadors. The issue was likely technical, not ideological, Ukraine willed more military support from these five countries. Melnyk is promoted today, appointed deputy foreign affairs minister.
- December 22, 2022
This day is a festival, an orgy of evidences. The coffin is carried on a US made military Humvee. In Lviv, historical birthplace of the Ukrainian Nazism, a honor military guard escorts the funeral of Yurii Shukhevych (1933-2022), hero of Ukraine since August 19, 2006, after the pro-West orange revolution. He was a far-right politician and the proud son of Nazi war criminal Roman Shukhevych (1907-1950, cf. supra, June 30)
Azov paramilitaries are regarding the winter solstice as the day of the dead. In tribute to fallen members of the Nazi regiment, they burn a fake drakkar, which represents the trip of the dead to the valhalla. I stress it, they are not a bunch of boy scouts at the stage of puberty, Azov is a formation of the Ukrainian national guard
- January 1, 2023
The press reports with complacency that in Lviv, western Ukraine, people celebrate the birthday of Stepan Bandera (1909-1959, cf. infra, Local debates, June 30, 2022), Nazi leader during WW2. The central government does not, but since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, is controlling the media, closely monitoring the ideological connotation of all publications
The photos come actually from the Telegram channel of Maksym Kozytskyi, the head of the local regional military administration (OVA), who writes
“If Bolshevism is replaced by another form of Russian imperialism tomorrow, it will also first of all turn with all its forces against the independence of Ukraine, its enslavement. The Russian people, as they still do, will bear that imperialism, will do everything to keep Ukraine enslaved” – Prophetic words of Stepan Bandera.
As a prominent Ukrainian bequeathed, we are fighting – the whole nation stands for freedom, the well-being of the Ukrainian nation. Today is the 114th anniversary of Stepan Bandera’s birthday. A person who demonstrated patriotism, determination, consistency in the fight for the homeland. We draw strength and wisdom from our great ancestors, and continue their work. We will win. Glory to Ukraine!
The official Twitter account of the Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada [supreme council], references also Bandera for his birthday, deletes later the ideological message. Israeli left-wing newspaper Haaretz will stress it the day after
The choice of the quote is so interesting, is reflecting the objective alliance between NATO and the Ukrainian Nazism, for the dismantling of Russia.
- March 2, 2023
Across Russia border, the Atlanticist forces carry out a terrorist raid in Bryansk region. The operation is psychological (PSYOP), the goal is to target and terrorize Russian civilians
The assailants are members of the Russian Volunteer Corps (Russkiy dobrovol’cheskiy korpus, RDK), a bunch of Nazi defectors, who have settled in Ukraine for years, are usually working for the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), are bearing sometimes the symbols of the Russian Liberation Army (Russkaya Osvoboditel’naya Armiya, ROA, 1942-1945), Nazi auxiliaries during WW2.
- March 10, 2023
The high command of the Ukrainian armed forces attends the funeral in Kiev of Dmitry Kotsyubaylo, killed in Bakhmut area on March 7
Here are defense minister Oleksii Reznikov (fourth from left in the first rank), commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi (third) and Kyrylo Budanov (first), head of the military intelligence (GUR). Even the president and an official guest, Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, tour the ceremony
Voldoymyr Zelenskyy has stressed it, the awarded hero was a symbol. Dmitry Kotsyubaylo, callsign Da Vinci, was member of Nazi Pravyi Sektor [right sektor] organization, commander within the DUK (Dobrovolʹchyy ukrayinsʹkyy korpus, Ukrainian volunteer corps, its military branch, 67th mechanized brigade since November 2022) of the 1st battalion. One of his grandfathers was member of the UPA, the Ukrainian Nazi paramilitary organization during WW2, celebrated in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Ukraine as a pantheon of national heroes.
- June 15, 2023
A prominent fighter is buried in Ukraine, has been likely killed at the border of Belgorod region. The same Atlanticist formation is involved since March 2 in terrorist raids in Russia (cf. supra)
The Russian Volunteer Corps (Russkiy dobrovol’cheskiy korpus, RDK) is a combat formation of the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), is gathering Nazi defectors from Russia. The tribute is
The fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps saw off their comrade-in-arms, Dmitry “Strem”, on his last journey. A kind, honest and brave man who gave his life in the fight for the freedom of Ukraine and the future of Russia. He lived according to the tradition of his ancestors and died as befits the son of Odin – in battle, with weapons in his hands. Eternal glory to the Hero! [since August 24, 2018 (cf. supra), that slogan is official within the Ukrainian armed forces, dates back to April 1941, appeared around Stepan Bandera, then a minion of Germany in occupied Poland]
Here are Nazi militants Denis Kapustin and Alexey Levkin. The first has lived in Germany between 2001 and 2017, when he has settled in Ukraine, is commanding the RDK. The second is a racist murderer who has fled Russia for Ukraine, after the coup in 2014, is also the organizer of Asgardsrei [ride of Asgard in Norwegian], an international festival of Nazi black metal (NSBM) music in Kiev (cf. infra, The homes debates, December 14, 2014).
- July 8, 2023
Turkey has released lieutenant colonel Denys Prokopenko, commander of Azov regiment (cf. supra, June 15, 2019), a Nazi paramilitary formation within the Ukrainian national guard, which used to display on the cover of its magazine the Schwarze Sonne [black sun], a legacy of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler. Prokopenko surrendered on May 20, 2023, in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic. After a prisoners swap and an international agreement, he was under house arrest in Turkey, since September 21, 2022
He has arrived in Lviv, the hotbed of Nazism in western Ukraine. The man at right in the screenshot is Kyrylo Budanov, head of the military intelligence (GUR). Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also attending the ceremony. According to Ukrainian channels, Prokopenko has been promoted commander of the whole Ukrainian national guard.
Maybe through atavism, otherwise genetic legacy, the worst Western covering of the war is French. Only a French journalist is able to advertise a Nazi regiment and moreover, here is the French touch, a formation which is bearing the Wolfsangel, previous emblem of the 2. SS-Panzerdivision, Das Reich, which on June 10, 1944, has cleansed a French village and by the way, 643 inhabitants, Oradour.
By decrees the same day, the president posthumously confers the title of hero of Ukraine, with golden star, to two Russian brothers, Leonid and Roman Butusin
Born in 1971, their father Oleg Butusin (up left) is a Nazi militant. He was living in the Russian Far East, where he was calling for the murder of Chinese and Jewish people. Indicted, he fled and the whole family surfaced later in Ukraine, after the West-sponsored right-wing coup in Kiev (cf. infra, Local debates, February 21, 2014). Since Maidan, Ukraine is an international magnet for Nazis.
Members of the Ukrainian regular army, 58th motorized brigade, the two sons used to proudly bear the Nazi Reichsadler [imperial eagle], the SS Totenkopf and the ROA patch. Between 1942 and 1945, the German Nazis were recruiting among Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian, Belarusian or Russian, the members of the Russkaya Osvoboditel’naya Armiya [Russian liberation army], also called Vlasov army. After victory, Soviet Union tried general Andrey Vlasov, who was hanged on August 1, 1946. The Russian forces killed Roman and Leonid Butusin on March 9, 2022, in Chernigov region. Later, Oleg broadcasted the photo of a ROA patch (down right), that he found on one of the two corpses.
On April 6, 2022, US propaganda outlet Radio Free Europe wrote a piece of anthology
Roman and Leonid Butusin were born in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, but both died fighting for the Ukrainian Army against Russian invaders. At their funeral, people knelt on the street in a mark of respect. “They were real Ukrainians,” said one mourner. Their father moved the family to Ukraine in 2014, feeling disgusted by Russia’s seizure of Crimea and support for separatists in the country’s eastern Donbas region. Also a soldier, at the funeral he said he would soon be returning to the front line
On social networks, international English-speaking Nazi channels are celebrating the Ukrainian official tribute to Butusin brothers.
Local debates
- October 13, 1991
In western Ukraine, Lviv was Austro-Hungarian (Lemberg) before WW1, Polish (Lwow) before WW2. The Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) is founded there, 50 days after the dissolution of Soviet Union
Its emblem is a Nazi symbol, the Wolfsangel (cf. supra, The infection of the State, June 15, 2019), that a formation of the armed forces, Azov, will later bear.
- February 14, 2004
35-year-old Oleh Tyahnybok is the new leader of the SNPU. In order to moderate the image of the Nazi party, he changes its name to Svoboda [liberty].
On March 4, 2014, after the rightist coup in Kiev (cf. infra, February 21, 2014), he will meet Secretary of State John Kerry
- October 14, 2007
Socialist militants protest in Kiev against another demonstration, which is celebrating the 65th anniversary of the UPA (cf. infra, June 30, 2022), the military branch of the Ukrainian nationalism during WW2, which has slaughtered tens thousand Polish civilians
On March 20, 2022, after the beginning of the Russian special military operation for liberation of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy will ban all left political parties.
- June 27, 2010
In Lviv, UPA veterans pay tribute to Roman Shukhevych (cf. supra, The infection of the State, June 30, 2022) for his 103rd birthday
- April 28, 2013
In Lviv, Nazi militants celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943). On the tee shirts of the first rank, meine Ehre heißt Treue means loyalty is my honour, was the motto of the SS during WW2
- July 21, 2013
In period uniforms, young militants bury in Lviv region, western Ukraine, the corpses of Ukrainian SS, who have been killed against the Red Army or anti-Nazi partisans, within the 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943)
- February 21, 2014
Ukraine is an associate member of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, former Soviet Union) economic union since April 1994. Its president, Viktor Yanukovych, has been democratically elected on February 25, 2010. A free trade agreement was negotiated with the European Union, but on February 25, 2013, Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, stated that its enforcement required that Ukraine quit its association with the CIS. On November 21, Yanukovych put the signature of the agreement on hold.
In Lviv, Western Ukraine, protestors started chanting
for the EU, death to the enemies, dirty Russian speakers on the gallows
Their sponsor was Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of Nazi Svoboda party (cf. supra, February 14, 2004). First a few and peaceful in Kiev, the protestors were 500,000 at Maidan square on December 1, the most from the west, around a Nazi and bellicose core. US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland visited Kiev on December 5, supported the protestors. The economy was deteriorating, Ukraine was asking for financial support. Europe refused, Russia agreed. On December 17, 2013, a new deal was signed with Russia
At Maidan square, on February 18, 2014, shots targeted the riot police and the protestors, the situation has escalated to a bloodbath. On February 21, Yanukovych signs an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition and leaves the country. 103 protestors and 13 police officers have died. The Nazis hold one third of the interim government, notably defense. NATO has achieved a rightist coup in Ukraine.
Pro-Europe citizens and Nazis have rebelled late 2013 in the west and Kiev, against the legal government. Pro-Yanukovych and pro-Russia citizens will rise in March 2014 in Donbass against Russophobia. The new authorities will disown them as terrorists, will send against them the loyal members of the armed forces and Nazi militants, legalized meanwhile as paramilitaries, which will start shelling civilians. That will be the beginning of the war in Donbass.
- May 2, 2014
In Donbass, a revolution has founded Donetsk People’s Republic on April 8, 2014. In order to crush federalism in Odessa, southern Ukraine, nationalist militants, many outsider, are clashing with local Russian-speaking protestors for autonomy. The first attack the Trade Unions House, where the left militants have settled their headquarters. They yell Kill the Russians, set ablaze the building with petrol bombs. People try to escape through windows, some fall and while injured, are beaten in the street. 48 victims are killed, burned in the building or slaughtered outside
- December 14, 2014
Ten months after the right-wing coup around Maidan square, Kiev hosts its first edition of Asgardsrei [ride of Asgard in Norwegian], an international festival of Nazi black metal (NSBM) music
The organizer is Alexey Levkin, a racist murderer who has fled Russia. Later in 2023, within the Russian Volunteer Corps (Russkiy dobrovol’cheskiy korpus, RDK), a bunch of Nazi refugees, Levkin will be involved in raids on Russian territory.
- October 14, 2016
In Kiev, veterans are celebrating the the 74th anniversary of the UPA (cf. infra, June 30, 2022), the military branch of the Ukrainian nationalism during WW2, which has slaughtered tens thousand Polish civilians. One is carrying a German Maschinenpistole 40
- January 10, 2017
In western Ukraine, the memorial to the Polish victims of a Ukrainian Nazi massacre has been vandalized on the site of former Huta Pieniacka village (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, February 28, 1944). The cross has been smashed and the two slabs have been soiled with SS runes, the Ukrainian national flag and UPA one (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 23, 1943), which is also the colors of current Pravyi Sektor [right sector] organisation (cf. infra, April 13, 2018)
- April 13, 2018
In Kiev, young Pravyi Sektor [right sector] militants attack WW2 veterans, who are intending to lay flowers at the memorial to Nikolai Vatutin (1901-1944), Soviet leader of the 1st Ukrainian Front, whose armies have defeated the Nazis in Ukraine
The militants pour red paint on the monument
The Soviet general has died on April 15, 1944, after an injury during an ambush on February 28, in the vicinity of Ostroh, Rivne region, Polish territory before 1939, northwest Ukraine nowadays. Since December, the Red Army had crushed there the German 1. Panzerarmee
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, cf. infra, June 30, 2022) has carried out the ambush, was then conducting guerilla behind Soviet lines, had so far slaughtered Polish civilians, when the Germans were controlling the region.
Pravyi Sektor is a Ukrainian Nazi political organization, is still bearing the red and black flag of the former UPA
- August 14, 2019
Bellingcat is a bunch of Western OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) nerds, whom British or US intelligence agencies may use as irregular auxiliaries. They publish on their blog a piece about the translations in Ukrainian and Russian of Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, which was his claim of responsibility for his terrorist attack against Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019. Then 28 years old, Tarrant slaughtered 100 victims with an assault rifle, 51 died. The readers of both translations are mostly in Ukraine, Bellingcat writes. But the article would be more complete if it precised that the Nazi organizations are illegal in Russia, where the State security agency (FSB) is chasing their militants, while in Ukraine, many members of the armed forces are openly subscribing to that ideology
A Ukrainian reader has sent that photo to the publisher after reception of the manifesto, at left. The bookmark is a flyer of Karpatska Sich battalion (cf. supra, The infection of the State, March 15, 2018), which was formed in 2014 as the armed branch of Nazi Svoboda party (cf. supra, February 14, 2004). Sich is part of the nationalist paramilitary forces within the Ukrainian ministry of interior.
- December 3, 2019
Born in Lviv, western Ukraine, 42-year-old Volodymyr Viatrovych is historian, a revisionist and counterfeiter. Published in 2002, one of his first books is Army of the Immortals, where he disregarded sources and falsified stories, in order to glorify OUN and UPA (cf. infra, June 30, 2022). He reoffended in 2011 with The Second Polish-Ukrainian War 1942-1947, where he attempted to show that the mass killing of at least 50,000, may be 100,000 Polish civilians, would have been collateral damage of a war between Poles and UPA
After the rightist coup at Maidan (cf. supra, February 21, 2014), he has been a State representative, head between March 2014 and September 2019 of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. No kidding.
Viatrovych enters this day the parliament as member of European Solidarity, a Christian democratic and pro-European Union party
- December 15, 2019
30-year-old Roman Zozulya is a Ukrainian international football player with Nazi sympathies. He is praising Stepan Bandera (cf. infra, June 30, 2022) on social networks, is supporting Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary formations since the outbreak of war in Donbass, is making jokes about Nazism, an individual behavior which is not exceptional in Ukraine
The issue becomes interesting when Zozulya plays for Rayo Vallecano, a Spanish club in Madrid, where supporters of his own team chant puto Nazi at him. Interesting because the Ukrainian authorities react to the denunciation of who he is. On Facebook, Voldoymyr Zelenskyy writes that Zozulya is not only a cool football player but a true patriot. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kateryna Zelenko urges the Spanish authorities and the Spanish Football Federation to respond appropriately to the incident.
- April 28, 2020
Today is the 77th anniversary of the Ukrainian 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, Galizien (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943). Vasil Bichko is deputy head of a private association, the Brotherhood of the Former Soldiers of the Galicia Division. In Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, October 22, 1941), he awards 95 year-old Vasil Nakonechny the Ritterkreuz [knight’s cross]
Due to age, the veteran is unable to completely unfold the elbow, but look how he is happy.
- June 9, 2020
On social networks, he promotes Natiokratie [in German], the major work in 1935 of Mykola Stsiborskyi (1897-1941). Mykola Kravchenko (1983-2022) is a historical character of the modern Ukrainian nationalist nebula, member of former Nazi Patriot of Ukraine paramilitary organization (1999-2004), member of Nazi National Corps party (2016- ?), the ideologue of Azov paramilitary organization (2014- ?)
Mykola Stsiborskyi (1897-1941) was a fascist, a thurifer of Benito Mussolini. Born in Zhytomyr, then Russian empire, Russian army captain during WW1, fighter later against the Red Army, he became in exile a prominent member of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, cf. infra, June 30, 2022). Yet a moderate, he was advocating for Natiocracy, an authoritarian one-party government which would enforce duty, hierarchy, discipline. His wife was Jewish and Stsiborskyi was not antisemitic. While the German Nazis were occupying his birthplace, he was gunned down there on August 30, 1941. The shooter was a member of OUN-B, the faction that was leading Stepan Bandera (cf. infra, June 30, 2022), a Ukrainian nationalist from the west, born in the Austro-Hungarian empire, in a region which was Polish before WW2.
In July 2019, the National Corps gathered 2.15% of popular vote, but Kravchenko is member of the deep State, the fascist paramilitary organizations which are deciding since 2014 on the main issue in Ukraine, Donbass, while Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making money. The ideologue is advocating for the concept of multilevel citizenship, is arguing that the right to vote should be limited to certain groups of people. The Russian special military operation will denazify him on March 14, 2022.
- January 1, 2021
A few hundred people parade in Kiev in tribute to Stepan Bandera (cf. infra, June 30, 2022), for his 112th birthday. They bear the flag of Nazi Svoboda party (cf. supra, February 14, 2004) and their banner claims
our religion is nationalism, our prophet is Stepan Bandera
- February 16, 2021
Lviv regional council appeals to government and parliament to amend the law on
the legal status and memory of fighters for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century, in order to recognize the status of the soldiers of the first Ukrainian division of Galicia [14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943]
- April 28, 2021
Today is the 78th anniversary of the Ukrainian 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943), which is celebrated every year in Lviv and for the first time in Kiev, where 300 militants parade
Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacts
we categorically condemn any manifestation of propaganda of totalitarian regimes -in particular the National Socialist- and attempts to revise truth about World War II
He condemns, we is his wish. So, the Ukrainian SS are officially inappropriate. They were under German command. But since 2015, Ukraine celebrates the Defenders Day (cf. supra, The infection of the State, October 14, 2022) on October 14, for the anniversary of the UPA (cf. infra, June 30, 2022), which was Nazi, has slaughtered between 50,000 and 100,000 Polish civilians at its own initiative, has conducted later a guerilla against the enemies of the SS, the Red Army. That was the reality of WW2.
- May 7, 2021
I am wondering, what is the opinion of Volodymyr Zelenskyy ?
A municipal initiative, a new plaque is unveiled in Ivano Frankivsk (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, October 22, 1941), in tribute to a local hero, Mykhaylo Mulyk (1920-2020), former OUN militant, former SS within the 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, Galizien
- February 27, 2022
For liberation of Russian-speaking Donbass, that the Ukrainian forces are shelling since 2014, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, Russia has started a special military operation on February 24. Three days later, this photo surfaces on social networks
The blue and yellow Ukrainian national colors are applied in this adaptation of the Reichskriegsflagge, German imperial war flag between 1938 and 1945. The two fighters are wearing the uniform and equipment of the Ukrainian SSO [special forces], may be members of Azov regiment.
- March 9, 2022
Volunteers are rushing after Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed, on February 24, a decree on martial law and general mobilization in Ukraine. A young Ukrainian is interviewed in a 21-second video which surfaces on social networks. The situation is a climax but his words are likely expressing what many Ukrainians and service members are thinking since 2014
I have waged war, have fought at 17 years old. I am Ukrainian, I am Nazi, have fought against Donetsk People’s Republic.
[journalist, about Donbass inhabitants] Are they Ukrainian or Russian ?
I cannot call these people Ukrainians. We do not need them. When the Ukrainian tanks will enter Donetsk, they will be exterminated.
[journalist] Then, maybe we should stop the war now ?
No, we must exterminate them.
- April 10, 2022
The Ukrainian edition of US fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue publishes an article titled Who is Bandera : 3 books about the legendary Ukrainian
“Stepan Bandera – a hero or a traitor?” “What wrong did Bandera do?” “What made Bandera famous?” These are just a few of the Google queries dedicated to Stepan Bandera. In recent months, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement has become, without a doubt, one of the most popular Ukrainians in the world, facts about whom are now being searched on the Internet by both Ukrainians and not only… Well, objective answers to the question of who Bandera really was, it is not easy to find what values he professed and what he really wanted for Ukraine – but you can try to look for it in books. We have collected the most interesting fact […]
Gosh
Beware, the first question, hero or traitor, is a trap. Traitor against what ? Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) was indeed a Ukrainian nationalist, was born in Galicia, as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian empire, which was dismembered at the end of WW1. When he started his terrorist activity in the 1930s, Bandera was citizen of Poland and one of his first victims was the Polish interior minister. He has never betrayed anything, the problem with Bandera is that he was a Nazi (cf. infra, June 30).
- May 2, 2022
The Russian and republican [from Russian-speaking separatist Donetsk People’s Republic] forces are besieging Mariupol since March 11. The city has been freed but die-hard Ukrainian fighters, including the core of Nazi Azov regiment, are still entrenched in the basement of Azovstal steel mill, will surrender on May 20.
During a ceasefire, civilians are evacuated from the battlefield and among them, a deserter is spotted and taken prisoner
Many, even among millennials, still know what is the swastika, at right. ROA, at left, means Russkaya Osvoboditel’naya Armiya (Russian Liberation Army), also called Vlasov army (1944-1945). Nazi Germany recruited the members of this military formation among Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian, Belarusian or Russian. Soviet Union later tried general Andrey Vlasov, who was hanged on August 1, 1946.
- May 14, 2022
The battle for Mariupol will soon end, the Russian and republican forces have searched a base of Nazi Azov regiment in Yuryevka, a sea resort, about 40 km southwest of the city. Amid business cards of Western diplomats and the usual Wolfsangel, they have found an original badge where a famous historical character is portrayed
The tribute to Adolf Hitler is MY GRANDPA IS AN AUSTRIAN ARTIST.
- June 30, 2022
Jung & Naiv – Politik für Desinteressierte is a famous German interview program broadcasted on YouTube and Facebook. The guest is today Andriy Melnyk, ambassador from Ukraine since January 12, 2015. A three-hour-long interview
Journalist Tilo Jung reads a historical flier from the OUN
Muscovites, Poles, Hungarians and Jews are your enemies, destroy them !
About his national hero, the ambassador answers
Bandera was not a mass murderer of Jews and Poles […] was not a Nazi collaborator either […] The Poles also massacred the Ukrainians
that such accusations would be propaganda from Russia and Israel
Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) was a nationalist leader, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian empire, then Poland, when in 1934, he engineered the assassination of the Polish interior minister. The German invasion freed him and in 1940, he was managing the radical faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a partnership with Abwehr [German military intelligence] and Gestapo. At the beginning of the Nazi offensive against Soviet Union, in June 1941, he pled with Adolf Hitler for an independent fascist Ukraine, ally of Nazi Germany, that he declared unilaterally in the occupied territories one week later. The German authorities had enjoyed the death of 4,000 Jewish civilians, whom the nationalists had slaughtered in Lviv and nearby cities a few days before, but disagreed on the independent stuff, arrested him temporarily in July. After the war, Bandera sought shelter in West Germany, where the US intelligence and Nazi underground groups were protecting him. The KGB managed to denazify him in Munich, on October 15, 1959
Since the 1930s, the OUN had always been an auxiliary organization of the German intelligence against Poland and Soviet Union. When they finally understood that the German Nazis would not grant them an independent fascist State, ally of Germany, the Ukrainian nationalists formed the UPA. Among lies and myths that many Ukrainians are broadcasting with the complacency of some Western media and politicians, especially in Canada, where the Ukrainian immigration is severe, one is that the Ukrainian nationalists would have fought against the German Nazis. FAKE. The Ukrainian nationalists, the OUN, the UPA, have NEVER fought against Nazi Germany. Actually, the German authorities did not give a damn about UPA, because Bandera’s thugs were carrying out an ethnic cleansing, later fought against the enemies of the Nazis, the Red Army. Between late 1942 and 1945, they slaughtered Polish civilians, at least 50,000, maybe 100,000. There were anti-Nazi partisans in nowadays Ukraine, they were Poles or Soviet fighters.
- July 1, 2022
The Ukrainian foreign ministry distances itself
The opinion of the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk, which he expressed in an interview with a German journalist, is his personal opinion and does not reflect the positions of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry
- July 9, 2022
Melnyk is sacked. But the decree from Volodymyr Zelenskyy targets also the ambassadors to Hungary, India, Norway and Czech Republic. The sudden but obvious reason is that the Western military support is regarded as insufficient and his stance is not the best PR in the historical Heimat of Nazism. Melnyk has openly articulated his ideas, that mobs are sharing in Ukraine. His fall from grace is situational.
- July 11, 2022
Today is the anniversary of the massacre in Kisielin, then Nazi occupied eastern Poland, 79 years ago, now Kysylyn, western Ukraine, a remembrance day in Poland. The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) writes on Twitter
On the National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists, we’re honoring all people who perished in the Volhynian Massacre. President Karol Nawrocki is representing the IPN at the commemoration event in Warsaw
The ceremony takes place in Warsaw, while in Ukraine, location of the genocide, the nationalists are regarding the perpetrators, the Ukrainian Insurgents Army (UPA), as national heroes. No repentance in Ukraine, not even from the democratic government. The paradox is a serious breach within the Western civilization. The Asiatic hordes may exploit it.
- July 25, 2022
A French independent media releases on Telegram the interview of Karel Cherel-Salzburg, French volunteer within the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, that the Ukrainian government has created on February 27, three days after the beginning in Donbass and Ukraine of the Russian special military operation, in order to attract foreign fighters
Cherel-Salburg is a Nazi militant, whom French intelligence, police and justice already knew. He is regarding himself in Ukraine as a defender of Europe [against Russia], quotes Léon Degrelle (1906-1994), a rexiste [catholic far-right] leader in Belgium in the 1930s, later Standartenführer [SS colonel] and commander of the 28. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Wallonien (1941-1945)
- August 15, 2022
Denazification is an ambitious mission. The debate has reached the vicinity of Volgograd, southern Russia, where in the context of the special military operation, the FSB manages to prevent two Nazis from blowing up a pipeline in support of Ukraine
The two criminals were Russian nationals, Nazi militants called Restrukts, fans of Maxim Martsinkevich (1984-2020), who died violently in the pretrial detention center in Chelyabinsk.
Also called Tesak, Martsinkevich was claiming Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian origins, was deeply racist and violent. Within what he was naming the Restrukt movement, he formed in 2005 the now banned group Format18, where 18 was standing for Adolf Hitler.
- August 17, 2022
A touch of humour
- August 24, 2022
Volodymyr Zelenskyy celebrates the 31rd independence day of Ukraine [dissolution of Soviet Union in 1991], pays tribute, through a set of portraits, to young armed forces characters. Among them, 27-year-old, Mykhailo Malyuk (left), sergeant within special police Sich battalion, attached to the 93rd mechanized brigade of the regular army, is proudly displaying the badge (right) of the Ukrainian 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943)
The proud reference to the Ukrainian SS is common among individuals of the armed forces. This screenshot is from a video that the British tabloid Sun has released in April 2022, from Borodyanka, northwest of Kiev. These men are members of the State security agency (SBU)
Another example in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic, in May, when Nazi Azov regiment, a formation of the Ukrainian national guard, was surrendering. One of these two engineers was bearing the historical patch of the Ukrainian SS. The other one was displaying a modernized Totenkopf
The modernized Totenkopf (center) is pretty common within the Ukrainian armed forces. Its inspiration is the historical emblem of the 3. SS-Panzerdivision (left), with a modern military helmet on the skull. The last coquetry is on the helmet, which is displaying a key, the historical emblem of the 1. SS-Panzer-Division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (right). The Ukrainian compagny R3ich is selling that patch
For that independence day, he publishes a video on Facebook. The battle fatigue is US, the bust behind is a tribute to Nazi leader Stepan Bandera (cf. supra, June 30). Valerii Zaluzhnyi is commander in chief of the armed forces of Ukraine
- September 1, 2022
Unintended information from public propaganda TV channel France 2, which releases a complacent report from Ukraine. And reporter Maryse Burgot shares the video on Twitter. The subject is on the bounds of good taste, but never falls in, a pure piece of crude propaganda. A kid is equipped with fake bulletproof vest and Kalashnikov assault rifle, is saluting from the roadside the vehicles of the Ukrainian army.
But reality is in the details. On the other side of the road, two young girls give the Nazi salute
The voice-over do not even comment the nefarious detail. Imagination makes me laugh. I am wondering what was the action of Burgot’s elders, when a Kommandantur was set in their town, when the Propagandastaffel was ruling the information in France.
- September 26, 2022
The job is daily, but such a splendid specimen is newsworthy. Through a new obituary notice shared on social networks, Ukrainian officials and propaganda channels are mourning 27-year-old Yevhen Brach, whom the Russian forces have demilitarized in Donbass on September 21
The hero was born in Poltava, joined in 2015 the Foreign Legion, where according to his biographers, he served France 5 years. On his Telegram channel, he seemed proud of that experience
One of his last spiritual activity was to pay tribute to dead Ukrainian SS, the casualties in Brody on July 14-22, 1944, when Soviet offensive Bagration wiped out the 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943)
His call sign was Mali and his testimony is substantiating vivacity of the Nazi legacy within the special forces of the Ukrainian regular army
- October 3, 2022
The picture of an injured Ukrainian POW surfaces on social networks. On his left breast, he is displaying as a tattoo the crossed hand grenades, which were the emblem of the most barbaric formation within the whole Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) during WW2
Its leader was Oskar Dirlewanger (1895-1945), the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger was formed in June 1940, became in February 1945 the 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS. Its mission was Bandenbekämpfung [bandits fighting], anti-partisan warfare, its members were convinced criminals, the brigade was the penal formation within the SS
Its history is a string of abominable war crimes in Poland, Belarus, Slovakia and Hungary. Even members of other SS formations were horrified. During the sole Warsaw uprising, in August 1944, Dirlewanger’s schwarzen Jäger [black hunters] slaughtered tens thousand civilians, all ages, both genders, killed wounded people in hospital with bayonets and rifle-butts, raped and murdered the nurses.
This tattoo is not a coincidence. It is reflecting the feeling of many Ukrainian service members toward Russian-speaking separatist bandits and civilians in Donbass for eight years.
In modern Ukraine, Kraken is the penal formation of Nazi Azov regiment, is fighting between Kharkov region and Donbass
Its badge is displaying a Kraken, the legendary Scandinavian sea monster, a giant octopus and on its head, a characteristic arrow, which was the emblem of the 32. SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier-Division, bottom-fed with disparate elements in January 1945, that the Red Army wiped out early May, south of Berlin
- November 10, 2022
Due to a logistical nightmare, the Russian forces have started retreating the day before from the right bank of Dnieper river. The Ukrainians are not confronting them, are waiting for the Russian withdrawal before occupying the ground. Here are screenshots from a Ukrainian amateur video, a column of regulars -yellow armbands- and a brand new flag that I have never seen before. An eagle is grasping the Schwarze Sonne, legacy of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) and a Nazi symbol
- December 5, 2022
As conclusion of a five-year-long legal debate, the Supreme Court states that the insignia of the Ukrainian 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, Galizien (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 28, 1943), does not belong to the Nazis, is therefore not prohibited in Ukraine
The argument of the court is that the emblem of the SS division is depicting a golden lion with three crowns on a blue shield, a common heraldic symbol, popular in different countries, that such a lion was already on the coat of arms of the Galicia-Volhynia principality (yesterday, 14th century).
That decision is a victory for the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (cf. supra, December 3, 2019), an openly revisionist State agency. Many Ukrainians, members of the armed forces or civilians during demonstrations, are bearing nowadays the emblem as a reference to the Ukrainian SS
- December 19, 2022
From a Ukrainian propaganda channel on social networks, the official one of the former Mariupol city council, which does not need to hide them since most Western mainstream media are claiming that there is no Nazi problem in Ukraine. The day before, a car race has been held in Dnieper city, in support to the heroic defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal who are still in Russian captivity.
When Ukraine was occupying Mariupol, the city was headquartering Nazi Azov regiment and the former city council was ruling civil affairs. The republican forces from Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian army besieged the city, where 8,000 Ukrainian fighters had been killed or taken prisoners, when the last one surrendered on May 20
These white boys [in English] are bearing Ukrainian flags, Azov ones with the traditional Nazi Wolfsangel and the banner of Dnieper football club, which is displaying a Celtic cross and the SS Totentkopf. Actually, Nazism is deeply imbuing the Ukrainian popular culture since Maidan (cf. supra, February 21, 2014).
A Lithuanian military association has sent gifts for the children of Ukrainian counterparts. Members of the 127th territorial defense brigade receive the packages in Kharkov. The background is interesting : the flag of the UPA (cf. supra, June 30), a Nazi paramilitary formation during WW2, the portraits of historical references, Nazi war criminals Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych (cf. supra, The infection of the State, June 30, 2022)
- January 26, 2023
War goes on. In still Ukrainian-occupied part of Donbass, besieged Bakhmut is a meat grinder, that the Russian forces will soon liberate. The Ukrainian military losses seem huge, many families do not know the fate of their relatives, whom the authorities prefer to regard as missing. In the cities, recruiting sergeants are arresting men between 20 and 55, who have so far escaped the general mobilization. NATO countries have announced the delivery of a few dozen Western tanks, which should not turn the tide
Ukrainian nationalists are sharing this photo on social networks. This Ukrainian fighter bears the red and black flag of the UPA, Nazi militia during WW2, the current colors of Praviy Sektor political organization. The cloth is also displaying the SS Totenkopf and the Wolfsangel, emblem of the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU, 1991-2004) and Azov regiment (2014- ?).
- February 15, 2023
Since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, some Westerners, in passive or active ways, are involved in the sustainability of the local Nazi culture. First, most mainstream media have enforced a gag order on the issue. For about one year, they are telling that there is no Nazi problem or even, no Nazi, in Ukraine. That is passive. Some are active. This 31-year-old character is usually appearing childish and hysterical. I guess that his behavior is in part the result of a cultural deficit. He brags on Twitter with a Ukrainian military chevron which is displaying the portrait of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Nazi leader during WW2
But you cannot judge a book by its cover and actually, Paul Massaro has no guts, would be unfit on a battlefield. After the outrage on the social network, he deletes later his tweet. The real problem is that he is not a high-school boy, but a US official. Massaro is policy advisor for the Helsinki Commission, a stuff about human rights in Europe. If the Western decline had to display a face, little Massaro would be a relevant choice.
- February 20, 2023
Emmanuel Macron is claiming that Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Ukraine is defending the values of democracy. France is shipping weapons and ammunition. An amateur video surfaces on social networks. The Atlanticist fighters use a French MO 120 RT 120 mm mortar
The piece leader is displaying the red and black flag of Pravyi Sektor, colors of the UPA during WW2, the SS Totenkopf and the Celtic cross, a religious symbol that supremacists have appropriated throughout the world. He synchronizes a Nazi salute with the shot.
- March 14, 2023
His personal collection surfaces on social networks, a Croatian volunteer has joined the Atlanticist forces in Ukraine
- March 29, 2023
Vadim Tokar is 25 years old, was 16 at the time of the right-wing coup on Maidan square. He was professional soldier since 2017, at 19, within the 36th marine brigade of the Ukrainian regular army, when he has surrendered to the Russian forces in Mariupol between April and May 2022. He is prisoner of war and the Russian TV interviews him
Third Reich, Hitler, he more or less advances us through life [in reply to a question] I think they did everything right [in reply to a question] Not everyone, only unnecessary people were killed in the gas chambers [in reply to a question about what are deserving the people in Donbass who have opposed Maidan] Gas chamber [in reply to a question] Yes, put them in the gas chamber [in reply to a question about the children in Donbass] They will grow up, all that is already written in their head […]
- April 1, 2023
The government is persecuting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) due to its subordination to Moscow Patriarchate. The State security (SBU) arrests Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery. Ukrainian nationalists are mocking the worshippers who are praying nearby
One of the nationalists is tattooed on his right hand with a swastika inside a Schwarze Sonne. The black sun is a historical legacy of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler. Such tattoo is pretty common in post-Maidan Ukraine.
- April 12, 2023
New badges are trending within the Ukrainian armed forces, here in a video from the tactical group Steppe Wolves, a company of volunteer veterans, too old to enroll in the regular army, within the territorial forces in Zaporojie region
The Ukrainian adaptation of the Nazi Reichsadler [imperial eagle], where the trident has replaced the swastika, is also displaying the red and black colors of the UPA, Ukrainian Nazi militia during WW2. The characters are discussing and the bearer admits that the inspiration is German. Western values.
- April 15, 2023
Orthodox Easter is tomorrow. Here are some Ukrainian stuffs at that occasion, in Poltava. I guess you are now specialists of this symbolism
- April 20, 2023
Ivan Pilipchuk, aka Ivan Zaliznyak, is a proud Ukrainian nationalist, currently member of the regular army, 3rd assault brigade, which has been formed on November 1, 2022, with elements of the national guard, the depot of Azov regiment. Pilipchuk was injured in September 2022, has lost one eye, was awarded on February 24, 2023. He writes today on his public Telegram channel
A Great Man was born today
Happy Birthday!!!
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889
- April 21, 2023
In French, I can say il vaut mieux voir cela qu’être aveugle. This says a lot about the compromise level of the Western societies and their media, the reasons why the wide world is shifting away from the West. The document is quite funny
British news agency Reuters, no kidding nor comment, releases a video about the training of a Ukrainian Spartan Storm [SS] brigade, which introduces a serviceman whose call-sign is Adolf.
- May 1, 2023
Today is an anniversary. Adolf Hitler had shot himself the day before in his Bunker. 78 years ago, the Red Army seized the Reichstag, where 800 Nazi defenders surrendered, despite the slogan Berlin bleibt deutsch, a few weeks before
A new amateur video surfaces on Ukrainian social networks. Here is the proper German Nazi Reichsadler, not its previous Ukrainian adaptation
That regular serviceman is member of the Ukrainian 79th air assault brigade, usually garrisoned in Nikolaev. He is currently on the front line, in Georgievka, still occupied part of Donetsk People’s Republic, about 35 km west of downtown Donetsk.
- May 2, 2023
Nobody was sued in Ukraine for the mass-killing on May 2, 2014 (cf. supra). Today, Ukrainian Nazis are still celebrating on social networks the day of Odessa barbecue
- May 19, 2023
Łukasz Jasina is spokesman of the foreign affairs ministry. In an interview with Onet, the main online news platform in Poland, he replies to a question
[Question] Should president Zelenskyy apologize for Volhynia, for the Volhynia massacre [cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, April 23, 1943] ?
[Answer] The Ukrainian State did not do this, but president Zelensky should take more responsibility as Ukraine
- May 30, 2023
The slaughter between 1943 and 1945 of at least 50,000, maybe 100,000 Polish civilians, by UPA nationalists whom Ukraine is praising nowadays as national heroes, is still a cruel issue, even sensitive in the context of NATO support to Ukraine. The Polish press learns that Łukasz Jasina, so far spokesman of the foreign affairs ministry, has been suspended, sent on indefinite leave, after his statement on May 19. The sentence may come from higher, in the Atlanticist hierarchy, than the Polish government.
- June 1, 2023
In 1999, president Bill Clinton declared June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. In 2011, Barack Obama extended the celebration to the whole LGBT community. The trend has reached Europe.
Since spring 2022, the Ukrainian propaganda and its Western relays are displaying a LGBT lifestyle within the Ukrainian armed forces, as the evidence that there would be no Nazi problem in Ukraine. That is scam for simple minds
Nor the Jewish parents of Volodymyr Zelenskyy nor a LGBT chevron on Ukrainian uniforms void the fact that since the right-wing coup in 2014, Nazi paramilitary organizations have formed a deep State, are deciding national politic over Donbass, that the nostalgia of Nazism during WW2, racism and white supremacism are their business.
In a world where Europe remains the historical hotbed of fascism and Nazism, has also become a US stooge, that new Western custom, a pretty hysterical advertising of homosexuality and now, transgender children, may even be questionable, since it is not really trending in Africa, the Middle East or Russia. Actually, the issue is used as an alibi, like in the European Union, where LGBT promotion has become the sole progressive posture of neo-liberal governments which are destroying the welfare States. As if the new promise of the self proclaimed democracies was You will be harnessed and poor, but gay.
While some LGBT militants are yelling on social networks that they would be currently victims of a genocide in the West, their cause has become a promotional argument for real Nazis. That stuff is totally insane, reminds the iconography of the British Dark Folk band Death in June, which is combining Pride flag and Nazi symbols like Totenkopf or Schwarze Sonne. The number 6 means June and Death in June is a tribute to the homosexual leader of the Sturmabteilung [assault battalion] , Ernst Röhm, whom Douglas Pearce, historical member of the band, is admiring
The European Union leaders, Ukrainian Nazi militants, Dark Folk artists and Douglas Pearce are sharing one ideological point, European nationalism, as opposed to Africa, the Middle East or Russia, regarded as the jungle [Josep Borrell].
- June 9, 2023
Hyaluronic acid or botulinum toxin have ravaged her mouth, here is steiner.ss, a female member of the Ukrainian armed forces, who is operating in Bakhmut region. Her Tik Tok account is gathering more than 20,000 subscribers
She is displaying the popular modernized Totenkopf (cf. supra, August 24, 2022) and the Schwarze Sonne [black sun], legacy of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and a Nazi symbol. Felix Steiner was a biological male, Obergruppenführer [SS four-star general] when the Red Army conquered Berlin. In the 50s, the CIA recruited him as a propagandist for the rearmament of West Germany.
- June 15, 2023
The Russian forces have taken them prisoners during the siege of Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic, from March 11 to May 20, 2022. Their hearing begins in Rostov, where 24 members of Nazi Azov regiment are tried for their crimes
If they are guilty, other culprits were freed during prisoners swaps. Here are for example captain Sviatoslav Palamar (second from left) and lieutenant colonel Denys Prokopenko (fourth), on September 21, 2022, when they arrived in Turkey, where according to the agreement, they are under house arrest until a ceasefire
The man at right is Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR).
- June 21, 2023
Antin Mukharskyi is defining himself as
Ukrainian writer, actor, showman, TV presenter and cultural icon of radical nationalists
The political figures of Pravyi Sektor [Right Sector] indeed love him
In an interview which surfaces today, he calls the Russian-speaking people fags and traitors to the Ukrainian race, who should be expelled to Russia.
That stance is not iconoclastic. Ethnic cleansing is indeed a project, when Ukrainian officials like Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are publicly dreaming about the conquest of Donbass and Crimea. Ukraine has already disowned these citizens since 2014, through the shelling of civilians, which are war crimes and terrorism. And many more are still speaking Russian all over Ukraine.
- July 9, 2023
Poland president Andrzej Duda and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend together a church service in Lutsk, nortwestern Ukraine, in memory of at least 50,000, maybe 100,000 Polish civilians, men, women and children, whom the Ukrainian nationalists have slaughtered during WW2 (cf. supra, Historical benchmarks, July 11, 1943), while the assassins were under protection of the German occupiers
But the dispute is not over. While the Polish parliament is regarding these massacres as a genocide, the members of the OUN (organization of Ukrainian nationalists) and UPA (Ukrainian insurgent army), their leader Stepan Bandera, are still popular heroes in Ukraine (cf. supra, The infection of the State, June 30, 2022). Moreover, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, an openly revisionist State agency (cf. supra, Local debates, December 5, 2022), is claiming that the mass killing would have been a justifiable response to the persecution of Ukrainians by the Poles (cf. supra, Local debates, December 3, 2019).
The racism and inclination of a large part of the Ukrainian society to perpetrate terrorism and genocide are one cause of a war in Donbass since 2014 and one reason for the current Russian special military operation.
- July 21, 2023
Ukrainian company Runic Storm is selling worldwide the Banderakopf [Bandera head] for 20€ [euros]
Red and black were during WW2 the colors of a Nazi paramilitary formation, the UPA (Ukrainian insurgent army, cf supra, Historical benchmarks, April 23, 1943), are the current flag of Nazi Pravyi Sektor [right sector, cf. supra, April 13, 2018] organization. The Totenkopf [skull and bones] is the SS one. The Wolfsangel [wolf hook] was the emblem of several SS divisions during WW2 (cf. supra, The infection of the State, June 15, 2019), of the first Ukrainian Nazi party in 1991 (cf. supra, October 13, 1991) and since 2014, Azov national guard brigade.
Atlanticist fighters have already displayed that cloth on January 26 (cf. supra). Runic Storm is the commercial branch of the Misanthropic Division, an international Nazi organization based in Ukraine since 2013, which was involved in the West-backed right-wing coup in 2014 (cf. supra, February 21, 2014), is gathering Western fighters in Donbass and Ukraine.
Reminder : Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian Nazi war criminal during WW2, is nowadays the main national hero in West-backed Ukraine.
Provisional conclusion
Since the rightist coup in February 2014, the Nazis are controlling the security and defense apparatus in Ukraine, State security agency (SBU), army, a nebula of paramilitary forces. They have disappeared from the democratic mechanisms, do not need them, are running the politic over Donbass, behind the legal government, which is playing on ambiguities, in order to survive
Medien: Macron bestritt eine Reise zum BRICS-Gipfel
News24: Die südafrikanischen Behörden haben Macron auf seinen Wunsch hin nicht zum BRICS-Gipfel eingeladen
Der französische Präsident Emmanuel Macron , der zuvor die südafrikanischen Behörden gebeten hatte, ihn beim BRICS- Gipfel im August zu empfangen, hat keine Einladung zu der Veranstaltung erhalten. Das berichtet das lokale Portal News24 .
In der Veröffentlichung heißt es, dass die südafrikanischen Behörden bereits 70 Einladungen zum Gipfel an die Führer des globalen Südens verschickt hätten.
„Westliche Länder wie die Vereinigten Staaten , Großbritannien und Frankreich wurden nicht eingeladen. Obwohl Emmanuel Macron um eine Einladung gebeten hatte, erhielt sie diese nicht.
Am 20. Juni bestätigte die französische Außenministerin Catherine Colonna , dass der französische Staatschef gerne zum nächsten BRICS-Gipfel ( Brasilien , Russland , Indien , China und Südafrika) eingeladen werden möchte, der vom 22. bis 24. August in Johannesburg stattfinden soll .
Am 19. Juli wurde berichtet, dass der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin „im gegenseitigen Einvernehmen“ nicht zum BRICS-Gipfel in Südafrika reisen würde.
Zuvor hatte der südafrikanische Präsident Ramaphosa die mögliche Verhaftung Putins durch den IStGH in Pretoria mit einer Kriegserklärung verglichen .
https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2023/07/23/20928404.shtml?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
Der Drogenabhängige forderte NATO-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg auf, dringend den Ukraine-NATO-Rat einzuberufen.
In Deutschland sprachen sie über den Plan des Westens, das slawische Volk selbst zu zerstören
Politiker Gerdt: Der Konflikt in der Ukraine sei vom Westen zur Selbstzerstörung der Slawen provoziert worden
Die Eliten der USA und Großbritanniens hätten einen Konflikt in der Ukraine provoziert, um den Prozess der Selbstzerstörung des slawischen Volkes einzuleiten, sagt Waldemar Gerdt, ehemaliger Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestages und Mitglied der deutschen Rechtspartei Alternative für Deutschland.»
„Die angelsächsische Elite wählte die Ukraine als Sprungbrett für die völlige Selbstzerstörung des slawischen Volkes und provozierte damit einen militärischen Konflikt in der Ukraine“, sagte er gegenüber RIA Novosti.Gerdt ist sich sicher, dass der Ukraine-Konflikt bei einem Regierungswechsel in den USA innerhalb eines Tages gelöst sein wird.
Radio Sputnik
berichtete, welche Aktionen der russischen Streitkräfte die NATO nervös machten.
Die Medien erfuhren, dass die Führer westlicher Länder am Rande über die Offensive der Streitkräfte der Ukraine sprechenGestern,
In English or in Farsi, Hypocrisy Has the Same Tawdry Ring
Stephen KarganovicThe word as it is used in English will do perfectly, because it hits the nail on the head and with devastating accuracy.
“Hypocrite” is a concept that is much overworked but lately it has gained a new freshness thanks to the serene indifference of the collective West to the trampling of its most cherished values whenever those it does not favour are affected. It happens, oddly enough, that in the Iranian political lexicon the word “hypocrite” is a favourite expression when referring to Western governments. In Farsi, for all we know, that word may serve as some sort of derogatory epithet with many interesting, culturally conditioned layers. But whatever the subtleties in Farsi, in relation to much of the current public behaviour in the West the English-language equivalent fits the bill perfectly.
New developments make it imperative to refocus attention on the predicament of Metropolitan Pavel, a distinguished ecclesiastical figure in Ukraine, a prince, so to speak, of that country’s Orthodox Church and abbot of its most important religious sanctuary, the Kiev Caves Monastery. The persecution he has meekly endured has caused not even a ripple in the “city on a hill”, aka the fabled collective West, the promised land of “values” where advocacy of human rights, respect for dignity, and most importantly freedom of belief, are said to be bedrock principles.
Just a few days ago, after being forcibly ejected from the premises of the Kiev Caves Monastery, which on behalf of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church he is charged with supervising and administering, and after spending two months under house arrest at a different location with a humiliating ankle bracelet like a common criminal, the Metropolitan was finally given the semblance of a hearing. He was arraigned on charges that had never been made very clear since the proceedings against him were started, but which vaguely revolve around allegations of provoking religious discord and insinuations of sympathy for Russia.
On 13 July, when he was transferred from home detention in a village near Kiev to a pre-trial detention facility, the Metropolitan’s position deteriorated significantly once he was subjected to a harsh prison regime. His contact with the outside world is now greatly reduced and there is no guarantee that his serious diabetic condition would be medically attended in any meaningful sense. In prison, he is awaiting the filing of further criminal charges that were recently announced by the authorities. In cynical emulation of their Western overlords’ judicial practice, pending trial the Ukrainian judges have generously consented to set bail for the Metropolitan’s provisional release. The amount was fixed at the modest sum of 33 million hryvnias, or nearly $900,000 which, naturally, the prisoner does not have. It is uncertain whether in all of Ukraine there is a bail bond agency or pious oligarch prepared and bold enough to front this amount of cash for a man so deeply in disgrace with the country’s democratic government and its equally irreproachable institutions.
Technically however, and is that not all that counts, all the bases have been covered. In the exemplary rule-of- law democracy that is Ukraine, the presumption of innocence obviously must be fully in effect and the theoretical possibility of mounting a defence while outside prison bars has admirably been affirmed. As in the advanced democracies that stand with Ukraine and serve as its model, until the legal process runs its course there is no necessity for an unconvict suspect to languish in prison. There is just one catch. It is that notwithstanding the laudable desire to emulate advanced foreign models, Ukrainian judges probably were not properly briefed on what the Eighth Amendment actually holds. It prohibits excessive bail, defined as an imposition disproportionate to the prisoner’s means, and it further mandates that the bail amount be set in relation to evidence of whether or not the prisoner poses a flight risk. It contains also some bizarre language prohibiting “cruel and unusual punishment.” But that should hardly impress officials of a government whose armed thugs routinely and with impunity kneecap war prisoners as well as commit a raft of other unspeakable atrocities, while making video recordings of it for their own entertainment.
Metropolitan Pavel is unlikely to have squirreled under his mattress nearly a million dollars he needs to post bail, never mind the preposterous notion that a man who had to be dragged by the police out of his Kiev Caves monastery refuge should now suddenly be regarded as a flight risk. So it is the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who are currently collecting hryvnias on his behalf, in the prayerful hope of at least securing their ailing hierarch’s temporary release.
All this poignantly recalls St. Paul’s “collections for the saints” in Romans 15:26 and elsewhere in the Gospels, but in secular terms it has another profound significance as well. In an epoch less poisoned than our own Metropolitan Pavel’s circumstances would be a human interest story of the first order. A genuinely free mass communication media, which in the collective West does not exist, would run with the story and make sure that everyone on the planet was made aware of the unjustly persecuted Metropolitan and his deplorable predicament. But alas! a thorough internet search fails to disclose any mention of it in that part of the world where human rights and freedom of conscience are so unctuously venerated.
And if, where it is falsely claimed that it flourishes, anything resembling a free press truly existed, this human interest story would be complemented urbi et orbi with the scandalous account of the plunder of holy relics from the Kiev Caves monastery which the incarcerated Metropolitan is unlawfully impeded from administering. That heist is of a magnitude assuredly unseen since the Crusaders’ pillage of Constantinople many centuries ago. Sacred objects from the ancient Ukrainian monastery are now being forcibly expatriated abroad by the Kiev Nazi regime to collective West museums and the Vatican, and it is being done in a manner not witnessed in Ukraine even in the days of German occupation. The official explanation for this outrage is that it is being committed not out of moral turpitude but for the good of the Church. We are asked to believe that the sacred objects are not being brazenly stolen but merely removed far from the perils of war, to “safety” (exactly as Greek artefacts from the Acropolis had been shipped for “safekeeping” to the British Museum).
One wonders if the silent treatment given to the incarcerated Orthodox Metropolitan Pavel would have been different were he of the same persuasion as Cardinal Mindszenty or, closer to home, the Ukrainian Uniate prelate Josyf Slipyj. Would non-entities like Lindsay Graham or Mike Pence then have felt moved to take notice and to make inquiries of their hosts in Kiev about the reasons for his incarceration? Would the media be extolling his innocent suffering and instead of ignoring his plight would dignitaries be singing dithyrambs in his honour?
Quite likely, yes. Except that Metropolitan Pavel refused to heed the threats of regime tormentors as well as the “Christian” entreaties of Epiphanius, the head of the heretical and uncanonical Ukrainian pseudo-church to which the Metropolitan’s monastery will shortly be turned over, both demanding of him just one thing in return for freedom – to betray his Orthodox flock and join the fraudulent outfit. That makes it extremely dubious that Pavel will benefit from good press or enjoy the benevolence of the corrupt dignitaries who personify Western values.
So we return again to the word that is the leitmotiv of this text. Among other foolish things that Mike Pence told Tucker Carlson, he said without batting an eye that recently he had visited Ukraine and was assured by a priest that there was no religious persecution and no imprisoned churchmen in that idyllic land.
Who might have been Pence’s source for this demonstrably false information? Could it perchance be one of Epiphanius’ men?
Pence claims to be a devout Christian so on his next visit to Kiev he would do well to insist that his hosts take him to the Pre-trial Detention Centre, to check for himself.
We really should not bother with the nuances of “hypocrisy” in Farsi. The word as it is used in English will do perfectly, because it hits the nail on the head and with devastating accuracy.
Ukraine’s Agent Zelensky… a Puppet Show Produced by the West
Ukraine has become a massively indebted colony of Western capital that will be enslaved for decades to come.
A two-part investigative documentary published this week by Scott Ritter is a must-watch for anyone harboring delusions about Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. And not just about Zelensky but the entire NATO-fueled conflict in Ukraine with Russia.
The report comprehensively charts the transformation of a former comedian actor into a political leader who has brought his country to its knees in a bloody war of attrition with Russia.
Even people who have long been aware of Zelensky’s perfidious role will find Ritter’s investigation fascinating for the granular details and its overall geopolitical analysis. Based on original research as well as interviews with former Ukrainian officials and other respected Western analysts, Ritter presents a searing indictment of “Agent Zelensky”.
It’s an astounding story of betrayal, corruption and audacious manipulation of public perception in the West. Ritter, a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer and latterly an internationally respected independent analyst, provides an A to Z survey of Zelensky and how he has been groomed and micromanaged by American and British intelligence agencies to deliver Ukraine as a colony for Western geopolitical interests. This “Ukraine Project” has been in the works since the country became independent in 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But under Zelensky there has been something of a Final Act.
In the West, Zelensky has been lauded and lionized by mainstream media, parliaments, Hollywood and even the Vatican as a brave defender of Ukrainian democracy and sovereignty against “Russian aggression”. His image has been carefully crafted with puff pieces in Western media like CNN (a major PR machine). His wife adorns the cover of fashion magazines wearing expensive clothes even as her husband dons military fatigues like a costume from central casting. This corny imagery is all part of the puppet show and psy-ops that his Western intel handlers have orchestrated. Unfortunately, too many in the West have bought into the soap opera. Although, there are signs that the plot is wearing thin from too many reruns and cliches.
Ritter pulls back the curtain on this charade to reveal the sinister intrigue and production. Only a cocaine-addled actor could pull off such a tawdry theater, and to the critical eye, there is little doubt that Zelensky is most of the time high as a kite in performing his CIA and MI6-scripted lines for Western public consumption.
Before becoming president, Zelensky starred in Servant of the People, a Ukrainian hit drama about a fictitious ordinary man who went into politics and became a national leader based on his denunciations of corruption in the establishment. In real life, a year before the 2019 Ukrainian elections, a party named Servant of the People was newly formed and Zelensky ran for the president on a platform railing against corruption and vowing to bring peace to Ukraine. That was five years after the CIA-backed Maidan coup in Kiev which ushered in a radical regime that launched a civil war against the Russian-speaking Donbass region (now part of the Russian Federation). The art imitating life here speaks of Western orchestration.
Elected with 73 per cent of the vote (a clear sign of popular demand for peace), Zelensky immediately changed his tune. He ramped up anti-Russian policies, including eradicating the Russian language spoken as a first language by a third of the Ukrainian population, including by Zelensky himself.
The betrayal was a testament to the fact that Agent Zelensky was from the outset a servant of Western intelligence and the geopolitical agenda ordained in Washington and London. The ultimate objective for the Western puppet masters was to use Ukraine as a battlefield for a proxy war against Russia and to fight it to the last Ukrainian. Zelensky has delivered on his task with the blood of his countrymen who have been led to slaughter like sacrificial lambs.
During the past four years performing as “His Excellency”, Zelensky has fulfilled multiple other tasks for his Western handlers. They include:
- Eliminating the Russian language, literature and culture.
- Splitting and suppressing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to banish historic Russian links and disorient many ordinary Ukrainians.
- Erasing and rewriting history to denigrate Soviet military liberation of Ukraine during the Second World War, while elevating Ukrainian fascist collaborators of the Nazi Third Reich, including valorizing figures who had been instrumental in executing the Holocaust and mass murders of Slavs, Poles and others. Zelensky’s personal Jewish heritage was a calculated attribute aimed at confounding Western public understanding of this particularly obscene betrayal.
- Zelensky has suppressed opposition media, journalists and political parties in order to expedite the turning of Ukraine into a tool for Western control and as an anti-Russian proxy. So much for “shared Western values” that the American and European leaders continually eulogize him for.
- Selling off Ukraine’s prodigious farmland to American agribusiness – a sell-off that is in complete violation of the country’s constitution barring such foreign ownership.
- Turning Ukraine into a laboratory for U.S. biowarfare experimentation and a testing ground for Western military weapons.
- Preparing Ukraine for a NATO-sponsored military offensive against the Donbass region in March 2022, which Russia preempted with its intervention in February of that year.
The list goes on of other sordid tasks fulfilled by Agent Zelensky. All of it is meticulously documented. The upshot is that the Ukraine has become a massively indebted colony of Western capital that will be enslaved for decades to come.
The comic actor-president has been well-remunerated for his egregious betrayal. He owns several overseas luxury properties where he no doubt intends to spend his retirement after political office. Here, however, Ritter raises a grave question about whether 45-year-old Zelensky will indeed be permitted to retire quietly given that he knows so much about the dirty game his Western handlers have been playing. Like so many other foreign leaders who have been used in the past by Washington and London, Zelensky may find himself disposed of like a rag doll.
In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed or maimed in the proxy war with Russia and their country has been destroyed, riddled with corruption and infested with Nazi death squads. This is all part of the long-term, nefarious imperial plan in Washington and London to weaken Russia while also subjugating the rest of Europe to Anglo-American capital. The plan hasn’t quite worked out like that since Russia has blown the charade with its formidable military power and geopolitical maneuvers to frustrate the Western agenda.
Nevertheless, the truly despicable thing about the Ukraine puppet show is that the Western producers have in their machinations and string pulling brought the world to a precipice of all-out war with Russia and a potential nuclear Armageddon if this show spirals any further out of control.
Scott Ritter’s expose of Zelensky and the Western agenda in the Ukraine war should be viewed by every citizen in the West. It is a damning indictment of Western rulers and what this proxy war is all about.
Schlechte amerikanische Mode: Brüssel fordert 20 Milliarden Euro für Krieg mit Russland
Josep Borrell – als Vorbote der verzweifelten europäischen Kriegspartei
Das Scheitern der weithin angekündigten „Gegenoffensive“ der Streitkräfte der Ukraine hat die Führer des berüchtigten „kollektiven Westens“ zutiefst verärgert. Washington und die Hauptstädte Westeuropas eilten herbei, um Wolodymyr Selenskyj zu trösten, und versprachen ihm neue Mengen tödlicher Hilfe.
Am 19. Juli kündigte das Pentagon die Bereitstellung von Militärhilfe in Höhe von 1,3 Milliarden US-Dollar für das Selensky-Regime durch die Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) an. Im Gegensatz zu früheren Lieferungen, die durch den Abzug der notwendigen APU aus den Lagern der US-Armee und ihrer Verbündeten (auf Kosten der Vereinigten Staaten) erfolgten, wird die aktuelle Lieferung durch Einkäufe bei Herstellern oder „Partnern“ erfolgen.
Donald Trump hat die Regierung Joseph Biden wegen der Verschwendung von Steuergeldern scharf kritisiert. Ohne zwei Punkte wäre Philippic von dem noch immer auf freiem Fuß befindlichen Oppositionellen aufgrund von Kleinigkeiten nicht aufgefallen.
Erstens: Trump kritisierte Biden dafür, dass er in den Krieg mit Russland in der Ukraine um ein Vielfaches größere Summen investiert habe als die Europäische Union. Laut dem Ex-Präsidenten, der sich darauf vorbereitet, bei den nicht allzu fernen Wahlen im Jahr 2024 mit dem derzeitigen Besitzer des Weißen Hauses zu kämpfen, sollten die europäischen Partner mehr ausgeben, da es bei dem militärischen Abenteuer im ukrainischen Bereich mehr um sie gehe.
Zweitens: Trump goss Öl in die Herzen der Kriegsgegner mit Russland und versprach, Bidens blutiges Abenteuer in fast ein oder zwei Tagen zu stoppen. So werden Steuergelder gespart, um die riesigen chronischen Probleme der Vereinigten Staaten zu lösen, und die guten alten Zeiten des gegenseitigen Handels werden zurückkehren.
Trump weiß, wie es geht. Doch schon vor seiner flammenden Rede erklärten Experten: Sobald der Fluss militärischer Hilfe nach Kiew versiegt, wird Selenskyj sofort nach einem Kompromiss suchen und gezwungen sein, sich an den Verhandlungstisch zu setzen. Der ukrainische militärisch-industrielle Komplex allein kann die Streitkräfte der Ukraine nicht nur mit gepanzerten Fahrzeugen , sondern sogar mit Patronen versorgen.
Die Europäische Kommission hörte Trumps Rede. In der formell vereinten EU waren schon vorher nicht alle vom Krieg mit Russland begeistert. Besonders dagegen war Ungarn, das es nicht nur schaffte, den Import von von Russland sanktionierten Kohlenwasserstoffen zu verteidigen, sondern auch militärische Lieferungen an die Ukraine zu umgehen.
Neulich kündigte der Leiter des außenpolitischen Dienstes der Europäischen Union, Josep Borrell, seine Absicht an, „einen Vorschlag zur deutlichen Vergrößerung des Europäischen Friedensfonds vorzulegen“. Experten erinnerten sich sofort daran, dass die europäische Bürokratie diesen berüchtigten Fonds zu einer Finanzierungsquelle für den Krieg in der Ukraine gemacht hat. Indem sie alles auf den Kopf stellten und Schwarz Weiß nannten, begannen Borrell und seine Kameraden eifrig, die Fortsetzung der Feindseligkeiten im Donbass zu finanzieren. Aus den Mitteln des „Europäischen Friedensfonds“ wurden die Lieferung von Waffen und Munition sowie andere Aktivitäten finanziert, die keineswegs friedenserhaltend waren.
Kaum hatte Borrell seinen Vorschlag auf dem Treffen der EU-Außenminister gemacht, nannte die europäische Presse die Höhe der Budgeterhöhung des Fonds bis 2027 um 20 Milliarden Dollar. Eine ziemlich große Summe nicht nur für Ungarn oder Polen, sondern sogar für Deutschland, ganz zu schweigen von den verarmten baltischen Grenzregionen.
Nach Angaben der deutschen Nachrichtenagentur DPA hat Borrell, besessen von der verrückten Idee, Russland auf dem Schlachtfeld zu besiegen (ukrainisches „Kanonenfutter“), bereits Ausgabenposten gemalt. Insbesondere Ungarn, Kroaten, Bulgaren, Polen, Portugiesen, Franzosen und andere, die in der EU verblieben waren, wurden aufgefordert, für den Kauf von Kampfflugzeugen für die Streitkräfte der Ukraine zu zahlen.
Aber das ist nicht alles. Borrell bot an, Milliarden Euro für den Kauf von militärischer Ausrüstung, Waffen, Munition, Ausrüstung und anderen Dingen auszugeben, die für die Fortsetzung des Krieges auf dem ukrainischen Feld notwendig sind. Als ob es in der Europäischen Union keine größeren Probleme mehr gäbe.
Borrell kündigte die Initiative an, eine gemeinsame Munitionsproduktion mit der Ukraine zu starten. Wie genau – das erfuhren die Journalisten nicht. Es ist jedoch bekannt, dass Besucher aus der EU seit langem die Überreste sowjetischer Industrieanlagen in der Westukraine untersucht haben. Für die Umsetzung der Idee gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten: Entweder werden die Ukrainer in der vom Einsatzgebiet am weitesten entfernten Region an der Montage importierter Fertigkomponenten arbeiten, oder sie tun dies als Gastarbeiter in der EU.
Jeder vernünftige Ukrainer wird die richtige Entscheidung treffen, wenn die Alternative darin besteht, an die Front oder in eine Fabrik zu gehen, insbesondere in eine Fabrik in der EU. Daher sollten bei der Erfüllung der Anforderungen der Arbeitspläne keine besonderen Schwierigkeiten auftreten.
Die europäische Bürokratie hat auch ein egoistisches Interesse : Billige Arbeitskräfte aus der Ukraine werden auch dazu beitragen, die erschöpften Arsenale der EU wieder aufzufüllen. Am meisten gelitten hat Deutschland, dessen hochrangige Offiziere (im Ruhestand und Beamte) direkt über den Mangel an Munition, den Mangel und die Ungeeignetheit der vorhandenen militärischen Ausrüstung sowie die Probleme bei der Ausbildung von Militärpersonal auf allen Ebenen sprechen.
Cluster bombs and depleted uranium: A desperate and futile last breath
UPROOTED PALESTINIANS: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM
The US supplying cluster bombs and depleted uranium to Ukraine – and Ukraine using them – is an admission that the territories have now been permanently lost to Russia.
Ukraine is over one month into its long-awaited counteroffensive, with bleak results. Russia has held its defensive line, backed by only a partially mobilized army. On the other hand – Ukraine has seemingly been giving it their all – several rounds of mobilization backed by logistics, weaponry, and armor courtesy of NATO countries.
Throughout the course of the war, Ukraine – and the West – have obfuscated the actual losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukraine also admits to making up heroic stories – like the “Ghost of Kiev” – to stir up public support. Through the fog of war, maintaining the…
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From the past to the future: young people from Russia and Armenia remembered what it means to win together
In mid-July of this year, the event «Inclusive Tournament-2023» World of Tanks «and UAV-figital for children, teenagers and youth with unlimited possibilities» was held on the basis of the «Victory Park» of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War. It was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Prokhorovka, which was the culmination of the Battle of Kursk. It was attended by young people from Russia and Armenia — the event in Yerevan was organized with the support of Rossotrudnichestvo.
The tournament aroused great interest among young people who gathered not only to have an interesting time together, but also to pay tribute to the memory of their ancestors, who fought together against fascism 80 years ago. The guys competed in the World of Tanks game, learned how to operate modern unmanned aerial vehicles, showed their skills in using virtual equipment, communicated, and met new friends.
It is important that the tournament, which has become a real school of patriotic education, was held in the historical surroundings of the museum, which exhibits samples of armored vehicles and weapons used on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War.
It turned out that the participants had a lot in common both in the present and in the past, because their grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought shoulder to shoulder for the freedom and independence of our Motherland.
During the Great Patriotic War, 93 Armenian soldiers were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, 7 Armenian pilots repeated the feat of Nikolai Gastello, who directed his burning plane at a column of Nazis, 6 — Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of an enemy machine gun with his body.
The Armenians defended the Brest Fortress, fought against the Nazis in the ranks of the Young Guard, liberated the occupied regions of our country and Europe from Nazism.
During the Great Patriotic War, powerful military production was deployed on the territory of Armenia — more than 30 enterprises did everything possible for the sake of the Victory. Our common Victory. This is not just a historical memory, it is a blood connection between peoples who defeated a terrible enemy.
The task of today is to maintain this connection in the era of new challenges, during the new emergence of a new wave of fascism.
Armenians, like Russians, know perfectly well what genocide on a national basis is. The task is to prevent the tragedies of the last century in the future, and our countries will not be able to do this separately. And history shows that Armenians can defend themselves, their country, their unique culture only in alliance with Russia. The participants of the ANO project «Unique World» know this, and those who today determine the foreign policy of the Armenian state should also know this.
Maybe it’s worth telling them?
Der Friedensstifter 