The "Nazification" of Ukraine

by

       Phillip Todd


"The US approach to Ukraine could be a fatal mistake." -  Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

     
      What we are witnessing in the Ukraine today is Russia's reaction to what is now know to be a CIA led coup.  The new government in Kiev was pro-Western and anti-Russian to the core, and it contained four high-ranking members who could legitimately be labeled neofascists. History tells us that during the military occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany, a large number of Ukrainians chose to cooperate with the Nazis and during this Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union the collaborators of Ukraine became a vital part of Hitler's genocide against the Jews.There are a number of contemporary far-right Ukrainian political organizations who claim to be inheritors of these political traditions, including Svoboda, the Ukrainian National Assembly and the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists. They have been put into all parts of the new government.

      The Obama administration has vehemently denied charges that Ukraine's new regime is stock full of neo-fascists despite clear evidence suggesting otherwise. Yet after simply Googling the terms "Ukraine" and "Neo-Nazi," the official position of the United States government along with the stance taken by many in the American media both now seem quite dubious, if not downright ridiculous, especially considering that one would be hard-pressed to contrive the lineup that now dominates Ukraine's ministry posts.

     For starters, Andriy Parubiy, the new secretary of Ukraine's security council, was a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), otherwise known as Svoboda. And his deputy, Dmytro Yarosh, is the leader of a party called the Right Sector which, according to historian Timothy Stanley, "flies the old flag of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators at its rallies." The highest-ranking right-wing extremist is Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych, also a member of Svoboda.

      The Svoboda party has tapped into Nazi symbolism including the "wolf's angel" rune, which resembles a swastika and was worn by members of the Waffen-SS, a panzer division that was declared a criminal

organization at Nuremberg. A report from Tel-Aviv University describes the Svoboda party as "an extremist, right-wing, nationalist organization which emphasizes its identification with the ideology of German National Socialism."

      These 21st century Nazi's, now in key positions, are set to take complete control of Ukraine as soon as the puppet regime shows any weakness. They may not have long to wait. President Viktor Yanukovych has revoked the hero status of Bandera and Shukhevych, the fathers of these political party's and largely put an end to the state cult of the ultra-nationalists, in Western Ukraine, however, apologetics for the Waffen-SS Galizien is entering the mainstream.

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       On April 28, 2011, the 68th anniversary of the establishment of Waffen-SS Galizien, neo-fascist ‘autonomous nationalists,’ together with the far-right Svoboda Party, which dominates the L’viv city government organized a march through the city. Led by Svoboda ideologue Iurii Mykhal’chyshyn of the L’viv city council, the nearly 700 participants (2,000 according to the organizers), carrying banners with neo-Nazi symbols marched down the streets of L’viv, shouting slogans like ‘Halychyna—division of heroes!,’ and ’One race, one nation, one Fatherland!’7 Svoboda, which dominates the L’viv city council, decorated the city with billboards with the symbol of the unit, accompanied by the texts ‘the treasure of the nation’ and ‘they defended Ukraine."

     The Ukrainian military is as separated as the politics, with the President controlling some and "others"

controlling the rest. Who are these "others"?  They want to be described as “patriotic businessmen,” they say, and one of them, whom we’ll call Alexander, is a very, very rich patriotic businessman. They have been funding Ukrainian self-defense militias formed in response to what they see as the ineffectiveness of the Ukraine Armed Forces in the face of pro-Moscow separatists and Russian troops in the country’s southeast. Allegations of widespread abuses – including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible mass executions at the hands of pro-Kiev Nazi militias – have been reported by several rights groups, including Amnesty International. Meanwhile they wait for their opportunity at power.