RT — Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?

Inquiring minds would like to know. The media conjured up Russiagate while ignoring the obvious — the Nazi resurgence and Neo-Nazism.

RT
Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?

Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect on the Cold War — Alan Fong interviews Christopher Simpson

Alan Fong interviews Christopher Simpson, author of Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects On the Cold War. Video and summary transcript.

While many people are aware of some aspects of this, Christopher Simpson elaborates some of the details. US policymakers never gave peace a chance after the defeat of Nazi Germany, nor do they do so after the collapse of the USSR.

This is still relevant to US policy of using collaborators and proxies, including neo-Nazis in Ukraine and jihadists in MENA and Central Asia. 

This is a long-standing policy that dates from WWII.

"Blowback" is CIA jargon for unintended, harmful consequences. If this were an isolated occurrence, it would not have generated a special term to refer to it. It's the result of sleeping with the devil. This article reveals how the CIA has been the devil's bitch since the end of WWII. Truman later admitted, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, that his creating the CIA as an intelligence agency that included operations in addition to espionage was "a mistake." Here is the CIA's own historical report; refer to the end for the citation of mistake. Moreover, it was inevitable that the agency would becomes politicized, Christopher Simpson sets forth.

The takeaway? Present policy is an extension of longstanding policy, using the same modus operandi and with the same objectives.

This is a must-read to understand what is going on today behind the scenes. This is not new information. The interview is from 1988. But it could have been written with respect to what is happening in the world today. It takes the wrappers off operational realities that are hidden from public view.

The interview suggests that Blowback is a gripping book. Here is a teaser that cuts to the point.

The question is, well, we really hated Nazis, didn't we? What we hiring these guys for? Didn't we know who they were? This is how it worked. Nazis didn't kinda come into the room with a swastika on, I'm talking about after the war now, with a swastika on their sleeve; and you have some government officials saying, "Oh gee, let's hire us a bunch of Nazis [00:40:00] and go to war against the Russians." Didn't work like that. Here's how it worked: in mid 1948, there was a decision of the National Security Council, and it's known by the code number and NSC 10/2; it's just a code number. And in it, this was a secret declaration of war against the USSR, and it says, quite explicitly, that the United States will undertake guerrilla war against the Soviet Union, sabotage, covert [00:40:30] operations, economic sabotage of various types.

This was unknown to the public at the time, and in fact, the very existence of this decision would be unknown to this day, except for some of the scandals that came out of Watergate were so profound that the existence of this decision was finally pushed into the public domain. That's point number one. There was this declaration of covert warfare. Point number two is, there was a second [00:41:00] decision that happened shortly thereafter, and the code number of that is NSC 20. What that was, it's known as the Containment Doctrine; it's a description of what was the basic strategy of the Americans for dealing with the Soviets during that period.

It says a couple interesting things. First of all, it says that they wanted to avoid an all out war. They wanted to avoid a military type shooting war. What they wanted to do instead, was to contain [00:41:30] the Soviet Union, to ring it around with hostile states, and to restrict the Soviets to the maximum degree possible, and to contribute to the internal stresses and strains inside the Soviet Union; and most particularly to the ethnic stresses and strains inside the Soviet Union, which at times are quite profound. And to boil them in this pot, so to speak until, the Soviets either agreed to cooperate [00:42:00] with the American agenda for international affairs, or collapsed into an internal civil war inside their own country.

And in that context, there's a very interesting passage. It says there's a number of different émigré groups, émigré political groups who wish to return to power in the Soviet Union, any one of which, we, in other words: the Americans, would prefer to be in power than the present government; "But," they continued, " [00:42:30] We're not going to favor one of these groups over the other. We're going to support all of these groups that seek to overthrow Stalin, and support them, more or less, equally with money, political influence, contacts, guns if necessary, so forth."

That decision, in the world of 1948, had a very clear meaning. It meant that these same collaborators that had worked with Berlin during the war, the same people who had been mayors, and police chiefs, and newspaper publishers, as quislings to [00:43:00] the Nazis during the war, who had fled back to Germany with the retreating German Army at the end of the war. That's who these people were who wanted to return to power in the Soviet Union. That's who they were talking about. The names of some of these organizations are the Ukrainian OUN, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Among the people of the Russian ethnic heritage, there's an extremist organization called the NTS, which is roughly translated as the [00:43:30] National Union of Solidarists. This is the way they like to translate it today. During the Nazi period, the translation was much closer to National Socialist Union. Also, among these groups are SS squadrons, particularly from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. These are Baltic countries, to the northern part of the Soviet Union.

[00:44:00] In our decision-making process, we didn't sit down, particularly at the high levels, we didn't sit down and frankly say what was underway. What we did is, developed a series of rationales and a kind of verbal smokescreens, really, that permitted us to sponsor these people without admitting who exactly they were....

Same old, same old today.

KPFK Archives

Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect on the Cold War

Alan Fong interviews Christopher Simpson

See also

Eagle and Swastika: CIA and Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators
Kevin Conely Ruffner
History Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, April 2003

CIA's Support to Nazi War Criminal Investigations

Kevin C. Rufner

CIA.gov

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Spy Mania: MI5 Reportedly Makes Secret List of MPs With 'Links' to Russia, China

Aleksandr Neukropny — Why Russia Has No Right to Surrender to the West

Oh, my. The Fourth Reich? And not Germany this time?

Times are getting rude.

The Vineyard of the Saker
Why Russia Has No Right to Surrender to the West

Aleksandr Neukropny
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard

See also

The Ghion Hournal
Destroying The Laws
Rainer Shea

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The National Interest
Don't Let Ukraine Drag America into War

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest

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FAIR
‘Americans Should Know Their Government Had a Hand in the Return to Fascism’ - CounterSpin interview with Brian Mier on Brazil's election

Brad DeLong — Joseph Goebbels (1932): Those Damned Nazis!: Weekend Reading

Should read. Goebbels present Nazism as a political form that combines nationalism, socialism, populism, and progressivism, and is opposed to internationalism, bourgeois liberalism, and capitalism, which Goebbels equates with "international Jewry."

Grasping Reality
Joseph Goebbels (1932): Those Damned Nazis!: Weekend Reading
Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

Politnavigator — CIA reveals Stepan Bandera was a German spy and a CIA accomplice

The electronic library of the Central Intelligence Agency published a four-page document dated 1951, stating that the icon of Ukrainian nationalism, Stepan Bandera, was a German spy.…

If this document is not enough, you can dig deeper into the CIA archives. You will be met with 293 pages of various documents on the subject of Nazism, and personally Bandera. You will learn that Stepan Bandera cooperated not only with the Third Reich, but also with the CIA itself....

Fort Russ

CIA reveals Bandera was a German spy - and a CIA accomplice

Politnavigator

translated by Inessa Sinchougova | Editor and Journalist at Fort Russ News and research fellow and translator of the Belgrade based Center for Syncretic Studies.

Baltnews — Greek Minister refuses to attend anti-communist conference in Tallinn, and tells why

In a letter sent to the organizers of the event, Kontonis explained that such an initiative revives the climate of the Cold War, contradicts the values of the EU and equates Communism with Nazism, which is unacceptable.

"History can not be faked. Historical data and events declare the Soviet Army as the liberator of Europe and of the Nazi concentration camps, as a savior from the horrors of the Holocaust. In our thoughts and in our minds, the Nazi regime is a political system whose ideology is based on racism, hatred, intolerance and mass murder, and under no circumstances can it be compared with communism, with the political ideology that it represents, or comparable to something else, Or simply because humanity has not experienced anything like Nazism and I hope that in the future it never will again" his letter states.

According to him, communism has spawned dozens of ideological currents, including Eurocommunism, which influenced all of Western Europe.

"We believe that the initiative to organize a conference with a specific content and title sends an incorrect and dangerous political signal, reviving the climate of the Cold War, which has caused much suffering to Europe, contradicts the values of the EU and, of course, does not reflect the point of view of the Greek government and the Greek people.

And nazism and communism can not be two sides of the same equation. It is clear that the General Secretariat for Human Rights of the Greek Ministry of Justice will not participate in a conference with such a theme," said Kontonis.... 

Fort Russ

Greek Minister refuses to attend anti-communist conference in Tallinn, and tells why
Baltnews.ee, translated by Tom Winter -

RT — US & Ukraine vote against anti-Nazi glorification resolution

US stands up for freedom of expression.

Ukraine, United States, and the Pacific island of Palau were the only three UN members to reject a Russian-authored resolution against rehabilitating and promoting Nazi beliefs.

Talk about being on the other side of an issue. The US has some selling to do on this one.

RT
US & Ukraine vote against anti-Nazi glorification resolution

CounterCurrent — Donald Trump Says Muslims Should Be Forced To Wear ‘Special ID Badges’

Republican presidential candidate and frontrunner Donald Trump has just crossed the line from his usual rhetoric into full blown Nazism.

Hey, it worked for the Nazis.

CounterCurrent
Donald Trump Says Muslims Should Be Forced To Wear ‘Special ID Badges’

M. David; Reagan Ali and Abu Hussein

Think Progress
Trump’s Idea To Shut Down Mosques Is Really Popular With Republicans

Kay Steiger

Notice that Trump is being specific in his proposals in comparison with the other GOP candidates.

TASS — Canada, US, Ukraine vote against UN resolution condemning glorification of Nazism

UNITED NATIONS, November 20. /TASS/. Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution on measures against the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that facilitate the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance related to them.

A total of 126 member-states of the UN voted for the document and four countries - Canada, Palau, the U.S., and Ukraine - voted against it. Another 53 countries, including member-nations of the European Union abstained from voting.

As many as 115 countries voted for a similar resolution last year but three countries - Canada, Ukraine, and the U.S. - voted against it.

The resolution condemns unconditionally any denial of Holocaust and expresses concern over any forms of glorification of the Nazi movement, former members of the Waffen SS organization, including the installation of memorials to them, and the ‘unending attempts to desecrate or destroy the monuments to those who fought with Nazism during World War II.…

TASS
Canada, US, Ukraine vote against UN resolution condemning glorification of Nazism

Alexrpt — German newspaper Die Welt goes full nazi claiming “Greek are not real Greeks”…Europe needs purification from Greeks, Slavs, Turks and Albanians

Yikes. Here we go again.

Red Pill Times
German newspaper Die Welt goes full nazi claiming “Greek are not real Greeks”…Europe needs purification from Greeks, Slavs, Turks and Albanians
Alexrpt

Magpie — Nazis, Marxists, and Socialists?

Why the Nazis (an abbreviation for National Socialist Party) were not socialists and were never meant to be.

Magpie's Asymmetric Warfare
Nazis, Marxists, and Socialists?
Magpie

Sputnik — Werewolf Brzezinski Against 'Chauvinist' Putin

In the early 2000s, Alexander Zinoviev wrote in his book The Russian Tragedy: "The main result of the change that occurred in the world is the fact that the United States has followed in the footsteps of Nazi Germany. There also developed an ideology of global aggressors, comparable with the racial ideology of fascism and Nazism, which asserts the supremacy of Western nations over the rest. The latter are considered subhuman."

Clash of civilizations?

While not focusing too much on the many examples of Brzezinski's ingenious mythmaking, we should note, however, that this character still has significant influence on the formulation of US foreign policy. Unfortunately, his speech at the Wilson Center in June is not just senile dementia, but a quintessence of views held by certain politicians in the United States, who believe that there should be no place in the world for nations, not to mention civilizations, independent of the United States.

Sputnik | OpEd
Werewolf Brzezinski Against 'Chauvinist' Putin
Vladimir Lepekhin, | director of the EurAsEC Institute, a member of the Zinoviev Club at Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency

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Andriy Biletsky, a Ukrainian parliamentarian who also leads the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, has taken a concept straight from academia and mixed it with his own racist rhetoric, stating that Ukraine's war in Donbass is really a "war of civilizations" between Ukraine, the guardian of Europe, and Russia, which he calls "Eurasia."

Ukrainian Battalion Commander Claims War in East is 'War of Civilizations'
The Pentagon's 'Long War' Pits NATO Against China, Russia and Iran
Pepe Escobar

The former US assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research Toby Gati said that the difference is for West the WWII is history, and for Russia it is a current event.

While WWII is History for Some, Remains Reality for Russia – Ex-US Official

Now for the really scary one — leveling the United States with a doomsday attack. Yes, it is really a strategy.

The Vineyard of the Saker
Nuclear Special Forces — Only BRICS countries will survive
The Saker

Adam LeBor — For Nazi Industrialists And Hitler's Banker "All Was Forgiven"

...excerpt from TOWER OF BASEL: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World by Adam LeBor. Reprinted with permission from PublicAffairs. 

CHAPTER TEN: ALL IS FORGIVEN

Zero Hedge
For Nazi Industrialists And Hitler's Banker "All Was Forgiven"

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Grasping Reality
Weekend Reading: Benito Mussolini (1932): What Is Fascism?

Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

Weekend Reading

Covers a lot of historical ground.

Consortium News
Neocons: the Echo of German Fascism
Todd E. Pierce

What Berdyaev, Solovyev, and Ilyin actually said.

Distorting Putin’s Favorite Philosophers
Paul R. Grenier

Spiegel — Nazi Extortion: Study Sheds New Light on Forced Greek Loans

Is Germany liable to Athens for loans the Nazis forced the Greek central bank to provide during World War II? A new study in Greece could increase the pressure on Berlin to pay up.

Spiegel Online International
Nazi Extortion: Study Sheds New Light on Forced Greek Loans
Manfred Ertel, Katrin Kuntz and Walter Mayr

History repeating?

This is pretty widely syndicated. It appeared in this mornings Cedar Rapids Gazette.

McClatchy
Europe’s Jews ponder: Is it time to flee again?
Matthew Schofield

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Fort Russ
Six Veterans of Stalingrad Write Open Letter to Angela Merkel
Translated from Russian by Tom Winter

Eric Zuesse — U.S. Among Only 3 Countries at U.N. Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-Denial; Israel Parts Company from Them; Germany Abstains

More US soft power erosion.

Ukraine voted no on this resolution because this new Ukrainian Government is the only nazi regime in the world, and they are doing the standard nazi things, and so what they are doing is in violation of numerous international laws, which are not being enforced, but which are re-asserted and re-affirmed in this resolution, though Ukraine and the Ukrainian situation aren’t at all mentioned in the resolution. The United States voted no on it, because the U.S. Government had placed them into power. And Canada voted no on it because their far-right Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has been a virtually unquestioning supporter of all U.S. foreign-policy positions, and wants U.S. President 

Barack Obama to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to assist the Koch brothers and other large oil giants to profitably transport and sell to Europe and around the world, tar-sands oil from Canada’s landlocked Athabasca region. 

Germany abstained from voting on this resolution because their leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, does not want to offend the U.S. President by voting for a resolution that the U.S. Government strongly opposes; and also because, as today’s leader of the land where nazism started — in the first nazi political party, the Nazi Party of Germany — she does not want Germany to vote against a resolution that condemns Nazism. If Germany were to have voted against this anti-nazi resolution, she would have faced a political firestorm at home. So, Germany abstained, in order not to offend Obama on the one side, and her public on the other. 

Key to understanding the vote on this resolution is knowing the relevant historical background, which has largely to do with the world’s only nazi-led Government: today’s Ukraine. Consequently, the remainder of this article will explore that issue in depth, so that this otherwise-incomprehensible U.N. vote will become comprehensible.

Washington's Blog
U.S. Among Only 3 Countries at U.N. Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-Denial; Israel Parts Company from Them; Germany Abstains

Eric Zuesse

Saul Austerlitz — No Banality in This Evil

Stangneth is also intent on situating the Argentina Papers within the unsettling world of postwar Nazi revanchists. Eichmann and his friends firmly believed that, suitably cleansed of its tainted leaders (Himmler in particular was singled out as being beyond redemption), Nazism could be revitalized as a political force. “You can lose the world war, but you can be a winner if you are able to write books,” said Stangneth. “And this was the plan. To make the propaganda for the next hundred years.”…

The Himmler letters and the Argentina Papers are primary sources reminding us, in case we ever forgot, that these propagandists were committed with undying ferocity to their own propaganda. Defeat was not an option, even when the war was nearly lost—even when the war was long over. They are privileged glimpses of true believers, reminding us that Nazis were not only murderers and torturers, but also devoted followers of a totalitarian ideal. Doubt simply did not exist.

One of the true believers, convinced that Nazism was not yet spent, was Gudrun Himmler [Heinrich Himmler’s daughter]. After the war, she became a prominent force in an organization called Stille Hilfe (Silent Aid), which helped Nazis escape Europe and provided financial and moral support to convicted war criminals. Silent Aid fought to free convicted Nazis and to prevent accused Nazis from being extradited for trial. Himmler was neo-Nazi royalty, her lineage granting her elite status within the airless world of unreconstructed fascist ideologues.

Tablet
No Banality in This Evil
Saul Austerlitz

Ria Novosti — Whitewashing Nazis in Eastern Europe Equate Nazism to Communism: Simon Wiesenthal Center director

Eastern Europeans, who attempt to whitewash Nazi war crimes, try to liken Nazism to communism to create an illusion that the Soviet Union is as responsible for what happened during World War II as the Third Reich, Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, warned in a discussion hosted by Radio VR’s moderator Dmitry Babich.…

The expert dwelled upon the situation in Ukraine with respect to the rehabilitation of Nazism. He underlined that the current Ukrainian government is sending the wrong message to its people. “Just a few days ago, the Ukrainian president [Petro Poroshenko] called members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) heroes. One may remember how [Nazi collaborator Roman] Shukhevich was posthumously honored by Yushchenko’s government. The presidential decree was revoked by the Yanukovich administration, but still this is a problem in Ukraine,” Zuroff said. 

If UPA members are considered heroes and statements to this effect are made by the government, then “this is definitely a wrong message,” the expert insisted. Zuroff also said he was concerned about education in Ukraine. “If the children in Ukraine are taught that Shukhevich is a hero and Stepan Bandera is a hero, that is a huge problem!” he said.

Ria Novosti
Whitewashing Nazis in Eastern Europe Equate Nazism to Communism: Expert

David Katz — The Hushed-Up Hitler Factor in Ukraine

Behind the Ukraine crisis is a revision of World War II history that seeks to honor eastern European collaborators with Hitler and the Holocaust by repackaging these rightists as anti-Soviet heroes, a reality shielded from the U.S. public, as Dovid Katz explains.

Consortium News
The Hushed-Up Hitler Factor in Ukraine
David Katz | former professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and editor of DefendingHistory.com, dedicated to investigating Holocaust denial.

Russians, on the other hand, are well aware of this.

The is a colossally huge mistake on the part of the US, the UK and Western Europe.

And especially Germany, in that the worst suspicions that Germany has not reformed are being reinforced.

The US is already well known for using black ops for overthrowing democratically elected governments and forming unsavory alliances when politically convenient, with the UK perceived as the US  toady in this. But this has generally be more peripheral. Now it is taking place in the heart of Europe.

No, WWII is not long over and now forgotten in Europe. This painful memory is being exacerbated by the rise of rightwing parties in Europe, often with either Nazi sympathies or neo-Nazi participation, owing to dire economic conditions resulting from neoliberal austerity policy.