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?

Lev Golinkin — Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

Longish and detailed, with lots of documentation. It's an excellent reference tool.

Concerning in itself but also because of US support that turns a blind eye to it. "Never again" is happening again.

The Nation
Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
Lev Golinkin

RT — Ukraine’s neo-Nazis ‘believed’ to have trained US white supremacists – FBI

Link to agent's affidavit.

RT
Ukraine’s neo-Nazis ‘believed’ to have trained US white supremacists – FBI

Stephen F. Cohen — America’s Collusion With Neo-Nazis

Neo-fascists play an important official or tolerated role in US-backed Ukraine.

John McCain and Joe Biden were at the center of it. While John McCain was out front on it, it happened on President Obama's watch and Joe Biden was tasked with Ukraine.

It gets murkier. While Joe Biden was US VP and John Kerry Secretary of State, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, became a board member of Burisma, Ukraine’s largest gas company, along with Devon Archer. Devon Archer, Hunter Biden John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz are the principals of an international a private equity firm back by Rosemart Seneca Partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz. John Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz. See here and here.

The Nation
America’s Collusion With Neo-Nazis
Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton University

Josh Cohen — Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem

As Ukraine’s struggle against Russia and its proxies continues, Kiev must also contend with a growing problem behind the front lines: far-right vigilantes who are willing to use intimidation and even violence to advance their agendas, and who often do so with the tacit approval of law enforcement agencies....

Western diplomats and human rights organizations must urge Ukraine’s government to uphold the rule of law and to stop allowing the far right to act with impunity....

Far from the whole story, but a good start for the lamestream media anyway where the story has been largely submerged so far.

Reuters
Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem

Josh Cohen, former USAID project officer involved in managing economic reform projects in the former Soviet Union

Bill Mitchell — Europhile reform dreamers wake up – there will be no ‘far-reaching’ reforms

I have now escaped the near-Arctic chill and back to warmer climes for a little while. While I was in Finland though, the Finnish news media was agape over the – Joint Statement – released by 8 Finance Ministers from the smaller Northern EU Member States (March 6, 2018). The statement released by the finance ministers of Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Sweden aired their views on how the Eurozone (EMU) might develop. Nobody should be under any delusion that significant reforms are going to come soon. These characters are locked into the austerity mindset and any claims that a new Macron-Merkel partnership will take the EMU into more progressive territory should be viewed as blind hope rather than bedded down in any realistic understanding of what is likely or possible....

As an aside, when I was in Barcelona (March 1-3), it was repeatedly claimed by the audiences of the events I spoke at that a unified European culture would eventually emerge, which justifies the progressive Europhile position to stick with the ‘reform’ process and reject breaking up either the Eurozone, the overall EU or both.
Time horizons of around 100 to 150 years were mentioned....

Oh, good,  the Deutsche Reich has only 100-150 years to run.

Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Europhile reform dreamers wake up – there will be no ‘far-reaching’ reforms
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Novorosinform — Poles send Ukraine a message: Prison term for calling Bandera, Shukevich, OUN-UPA heroes, or for denying the Volyn Massacre

Poland drops the hammer on Ukrainian neo-Nazism.

For Russ
Poles send Ukraine a message: Prison term for calling Bandera, Shukevich, OUN-UPA heroes, or for denying the Volyn Massacre

Novorosinform, translated by Tom Winter

Warsaw to Kiev — ‘You Won’t Get Into Europe Glorifying War Criminal Bandera’

Former Polish President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the influential leader of the country’s ruling Law and Justice Party, has some frank advice for Kiev, telling Ukrainian officials that the country would never join Europe if it continued to try to build its national identity on the glorification of notorious Nazi-allied war criminals like Stepan Bandera.

In an interview for the news weekly magazine Do Rzeczy, excerpts from which were published by other Polish outlets on Monday, Kaczynski indicated that he had warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that Kiev would have no place in Europe if it continued to indulge in the glorification of war criminals like Stepan Bandera, the leader of the WWII-era Ukrainian nationalist organization that collaborated with the Nazis.
Kaczynski said “for years now, we have disagreed with the construction in Ukraine of a cult to people who engaged in genocide against the Poles. They even surpassed the cruelty of the Germans, which was not easy to do.”

“In short, this is a matter of choice for Ukraine,” the politician emphasized. “I told President Poroshenko clearly that Ukraine wouldn’t be entering Europe with Bandera. For me this is an issue that is absolutely clear,” he added, “because we have demonstrated great patience. But this patience has its limits.”

A defining moment.

Defend Democracy
Warsaw to Kiev: ‘You Won’t Get Into Europe Glorifying War Criminal Bandera’

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TASS
Russia’s Investigative Committee opens cases over rehabilitation of Nazism in Ukraine

Der Spiegel — REVEALED: 2,500 German neo-nazi mercernaries fought in Ukraine conflict

German news. Will the US and UK new report it?

Fort Russ
REVEALED: 2,500 German neo-nazi mercernaries fought in Ukraine conflict
Der Spiegel

Translated by J Flores

Lev Golinkin — The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda

As the Trump administration mulls sending weapons to Ukraine, the question of far-right forces employed by the Kiev government has returned to the forefront. Some Western observers claim that there are no neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine, chalking the assertion up to propaganda from Moscow. Unfortunately, they are sadly mistaken.
There are indeed neo-Nazi formations in Ukraine. This has been overwhelmingly confirmed by nearly every major Western outlet. The fact that analysts are able to dismiss it as propaganda disseminated by Moscow is profoundly disturbing. It is especially disturbing given the current surge of neo-Nazis and white supremacists across the globe.
The most infamous neo-Nazi group in Ukraine is the 3,000-strong Azov Battalion, founded in 2014. Prior to creating Azov, its commander, Andriy Biletsky, headed the neo-Nazi group Patriot of Ukraine, members of which went on to form the core of Azov. Biletsky had stated that the mission of Ukraine is to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival … against the Semite-led Untermenschen.”...

The article doesn't mantion that Andrey Biletsky is member of Ukraine's parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), founder of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, and leader of the National Corps Party. See the post below.

The Hill
The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
Lev Golinkin, Opinion Contributor

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Member of Ukraine's parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), founder of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, and leader of the National Corps Party, Andrey Biletsky, has urged Ukrainian authorities to launch an offensive on the republics of Donbass. To seize Donbass, Biletsky says, the Ukrainian army should use combat aircraft and do everything in its power to have Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance forces destabilize Russia.

In his statement, Biletsky advised that Kiev should think about turning the present war into a total “hybrid” one, involving all available forces to break up the Russian Federation....

"Our" guy.

Fort Russ
Top Ukrainian Nazi demands war in Donbass and terrorist attacks in Russia
Eduard Popov - translated by Jafe Arnold

Bryan McDonald —20,000 Nazis March in Kiev. The Western Media Somehow Fails to Notice.

"So, we had a major Nazi gathering in a European capital and the only English language sources that show up in a Google News search are from RT, Sputnik, The Nation and a half-hearted seven-sentence ‘report’ by US state broadcaster RFE/RL, which meekly describes them as mere 'nationalists.'  That means there is nothing from CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times, Washington Post or the BBC, among the usual suspects who make every little protest in Russia headline news....

The silence is deafening.

Russia Insider
20,000 Nazis March in Kiev. The Western Media Somehow Fails to Notice.

Bryan McDonald

Adam Garrie — Julian Assange asks why the US said nothing when Obama supported Ukrainian neo-Nazis

In the above Tweet, Assange has juxtaposed a neo-Nazi torch march in Kiev with the far-right torch march in Charlottesville. Apart from the torches, it is clear that the Ukrainian fascists were far more equipped for violence as they were wearing bullet-proof combat gear and facial coverings.

The Duran
Julian Assange asks why the US said nothing when Obama supported Ukrainian neo-Nazis
Adam Garrie

German Radio— Germany to Send Tanks to Russian Border

The tone deafness on the NATO side is breathtaking. German tanks bearing the iron cross insignia of the Bundeswehr will be stationed on the Russian border for the first time since Hitler launched a panzer blitzkrieg against Russia in 1941 called Operation Barbarossa. Russians, who lost tens of millions in the ensuing battles, have not forgotten and probably not forgiven either, especially when they see tanks again gathering on their border.

The iron cross is just a step away from the swastika, which is now banned in Germany. The iron cross dates to Prussian times and is still in use as can be seen in the center of the above picture.

In addition, "patriots" in the countries bordering Russia are publicly honoring Nazi collaborators and conducting marches honoring SS veterans, torchlight parades and all.

The Russian public is taking this as a signal. The number one concern of the Russian people is now NATO making war on them. Rather then being fearful, however, they are resolute. Putin has declared that this time the battles will not be fought on Russian soil.

The West is blissfully ignoring this as it pokes sticks into the bear's lair.

Defense Talk
Germany to Send Tanks to Russian Border
German Radio

See also

Fort Russ
Shoigu: NATO leaves Russia and Belarus no choice but to respond
RIA Novosti - translated by J. Arnoldski

Sputnik
Rise of Neo-Nazism in Baltics, Ukraine ‘Extremely Dangerous’

Rusvesna — Glazyev: Ukraine under US Occupation, Gov't not legit

Sergey Glazyev is an advisor to President Putin, co-founder of the Rodina Party, and a former member of the State Duma. Glazyev is also on the Supervisory Board of Katehon Think Tank, alongside Alexander Dugin. Katehon exclusively employs the Fort Russ team for line and copy-editing for their English language portal, and consulting on matters of US internal political culture

Advisor to President Vladimir Putin, the academic Sergey Glazyev gives an exclusive interview to the website "Rusvesna" Dear Sergey, what economic measures can be used by Russia to force Ukraine and the world to reject military adventures against Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea?

- First you need to call a spade a spade: in Ukraine there is no legitimate authority; its territory is occupied by the United States; neo-Nazis were appointed by them to commit crimes against humanity, genocide against the Russian people. Then they proceed against the people of Ukraine with war crimes and political repression: we must create an international tribunal to investigate the crimes committed by the Nazis, who so far are without punishment.

We have to convince the international community that they are dealing with an attempt to restore a Nazi regime in the Ukraine, whose leaders declared themselves successors of Nazi collaborators.…

Fort Russ
Glazyev: Ukraine under US Occupation, Gov't not legit

Rusvesna 

Translated by: J. Flores 

James Carden — Fear and Loathing in Ukraine

Despite favorable – even fawning – propaganda in Western media, the U.S./E.U.-backed regime in Ukraine tramples on traditional liberal values of tolerance and pluralism, notes James W Carden.…

On a return trip to war-torn eastern Ukraine in March, I took the opportunity the 13-hour journey afforded to re-read Judith Shklar’s seminal essay, The Liberalism of Fear.
Written in 1989, at the time of what in retrospect looks like an era of unhinged, to say nothing of embarrassing, American triumphalism, Shklar, unlike many of her contemporaries in the academy (particularly Francis Fukuyama who published The End of History? in the National Interest that year), took a sober accounting of her time. Shklar warned, quite presciently, as it turns out, that "anyone who thinks that fascism in one guise or another is dead and gone ought to think again.”

The neo-Nazi Wolfsangel symbol on a banner in Ukraine.

The Liberalism of Fear essentially seeks to answer the question: What is the baseline requirement for a good society? What is the absolute precursor it must achieve without which it would be impossible to achieve democratic norms, pluralism, cultural freedom, and a market economy (be it democratic-capitalist or democratic-socialist) to develop?…

How do we apply Shklar’s criteria to the situation in Ukraine as it obtains today? In Shklar’s vision of liberalism, there are absolute minimums which societies need to meet. From what I saw, Kiev is not meeting them.…

The insignia of the Azov battalion, using the neo-Nazi symbol of the Wolfsangel.

Some in the conservative community are waking up and sounding an alarm. 

However, Carden makes no mention of the atrocities and war crimes committed during the coup and afterward, especially in eastern Ukraine, where they are still going on.

But what is to be expected from so-called liberal Western power who are sleeping with the devil in the Middle East especially. Why not elsewhere if it seems to be of benefit geopolitically and geostrategically. After all, the victors get to write history.

US-Russia.org
Fear and Loathing in Ukraine
James Carden, contributing editor to The American Conservative magazine, frequent contributor to The National Interest and Russia Direct, and formerly an Advisor to the US Department of State.

John Hellevig — Meet Andriy Parubiy, the Former Neo-Nazi Leader Turned Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament

An outspoken neo-Nazi takes the reigns of Ukraine's parliament, as the US and its European vassals remain silent

When Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk got the boot and was replaced by the speaker of parliament Volodymyr Groysman, Mr. Andriy Parubiy was appointed in his stead. This extraordinary event speaks volumes about, not only the Ukraine, but also the present state of affairs in the West and its media, which increasingly adapts its reporting to fit the current geopolitical interests of the masters of the Western universe. Mr. Parubiy has a biography littered with overt activity as one of the leading figures at the nexus of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist and outright neo-Nazi movements. Yet there has not been so much as a squeak from any leading Western politician or the media about the appalling fact that this same Parubiy has now ascended to the respectable position of speaker of parliament of a country with which the EU has signed an agreement about economic and political association. The self-proclaimed guardian of our values, as the EU wants us to regard it, has signed a treaty of political association with a country, where the second highest political position is held by a person who has earned his stripes as a neo-Nazi commander. However, the EU has not always in the past been so indifferent to Parubiy’s activities, as we shall see further down.…

Meet another one of "our guys." Read on.

Helevig lays out Parubiy's neo-Nazi credentials and his key role in the violent coup that overthrew the democratically elected government.

With Parubiy and Tyahnybok well established as the leaders of the insurgent fascist movement they abruptly performed in 2004 a rebranding of their various organizations by dropping the most overt allusions to Nazism. A well-informed source, who wishes to remain anonymous, revealed that it is believed that the rebranding was a strategy that their handlers at the CIA had prescribed in order to make the leaders and their organizations more politically acceptable on the Western propaganda front. The Social-National Party changed its name to Svoboda [Freedom] with Tyahnybok at the helm. Simultaneously they abandoned the Wolfsangel [SS] logo, but this was done only in regards to the formally adopted logo, in essence, the party continued wielding the Wolfsangel in its gatherings.

Did the EU not know all this? Or, is this a case of a severe form of institutional amnesia? Let’s see. Turns out that on 13 December 2012 the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the situation in Ukraine (2012/2889). According to this resolution the EU was then “concerned about the rising nationalistic sentiment in Ukraine, expressed in support for the Svoboda Party, which, as a result, is one of the two new parties to enter the Verkhovna Rada; recalls that racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views go against the EU’s fundamental values and principles and therefore appeals to pro-democratic parties in the Verkhovna Rada not to associate with, endorse or form coalitions with this party.”

Yes, in 2012, the EU called for a boycott of the Svoboda Party because of its extremist views, which went against the famous “EU fundamental values”. But today, they have no problem with cheering on Mr. Parubiy, who was the progenitor of Svododa (and much worse things), as he sweeps to power in the EU’s very own political association partner….

WTF?

Russia Insider

Meet Andriy Parubiy, the Former Neo-Nazi Leader Turned Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament 

John Hellevig | Awara Group

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According to new Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy, Kiev must strive to cut its visa-free travel arrangement with Moscow. Furthermore, he says, Ukraine may be looking into breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia altogether. Experts say that Ukraine would be shooting itself in the foot if it followed through with Parubiy's proposals.

Parubiy, the founder and former leader of the Social-National Party of Ukraine, an openly fascist party styled on Hitler's Nazis that eventually mutated into the Svoboda Party, is now de facto the third most powerful politician in the country. Parubiy took his former boss Volodymyr Groysman's place last week when Groysman became prime minister, following Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation.…

IN his role as the House speaker, Parubiy is now factually next in line for the presidency, according to the constitution, in the event that the serving president is unable to carry out his duties. This, Svobodnaya Pressa recalls, was how former speaker Aleksandr Turchynov [co-founder of the Socialist Nationalist Party with Andriy Parubiy] took over from President Viktor Yanukovych following the Maidan coup d'état.…

Pushback from the liberal anti-Nazi West coming?

Unfortunately, according to Ukrainian political analyst Vladimir Kornilov, it's unlikely that Western politicians and the mainstream media will react quite so negatively, or put much focus on the new speaker's neo-fascist past.

"The national socialist Parubiy has become speaker of the Verkhovna Rada. But Western analysts will continue to argue in one voice that the presence of Nazis in positions of power in Ukraine is a 'fabrication of Russian propaganda', and that in reality, neo-Nazis 'do not play any significant role in the political life of democratic Ukraine'," Kornilov said.

Sputnik
Here We Go Again…Ukraine's Parliament Speaker Wants to Cut Ties With Russia

RT — Ukraine’s neo-Nazi leader becomes top military adviser, legalizes fighters

Ukraine’s Interpol-wanted leader of extremist group Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, has been appointed as an adviser to the country’s Chief of General Staff. He has agreed to legalize thousands of fighters as an assault team subordinate to the regular army.

“Colonel General Viktor Muzhenko, Chief of General Staff, and Dmytro Yarosh agreed the format of cooperation between ‘Pravy Sector’ [Right Sector] and the Ukrainian Armed Forces,”Ukraine’s defense ministry said in statement.

Very bad news.

Yarosh, who was one of the main figureheads of the violence-seeped coup last year, is wanted by Interpol for incitement of terrorism, and extremist activities. He was placed on the international wanted list at the request of Russian authorities. Despite his notoriety, Yarosh is an elected member of the Ukrainian parliament heading the Right Sector political party, which is banned in Russia as an extremist organization.

Over the weekend Yarosh announced that he plans to legalize private military companies in Ukraine, and will soon introduce new legislation into the Parliament.
"I think it could be a good option for people, who can’t get back from war inside their heads," the extremist leader claimed. “This will provide jobs to many people, and stability in the country, after all.”…

RT
Ukraine’s neo-Nazi leader becomes top military adviser, legalizes fighters

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Interfax
DPR expecting Ukrainian army offensive shortly - Zakharchenko

But even if they start the whole thing, they will point the finger at us," Zakharchenko told reporters, answering a question regarding whether a Ukrainian army offensive was probable.

Ben Farmer — Britain signs new defence pact to help Ukraine in Russia confrontation

More alliances in Europe. In the past, this never worked out well. Maybe this time will be different. Ya think?

But maybe an alliance with neo-Nazis is not such a good plan. Be careful with whom you get in bed.

What does the UK get out of this? Certainly, not stability on the Continent.

The Telegraph
Britain signs new defence pact to help Ukraine in Russia confrontation
Ben Farmer, Defence Correspondent

Gordon M. Hahn — Who’s More in Violation of Minsk-2 – Kiev or Donbass?

President Poroshenko—like his forefather—Viktor Yuschenko (Ukraine’s president form 2004-2010) has played into the hands of the ultra-nationalists by establishing the World War Two-era neo-fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Partisan Army (UPA) as the heroes of Maidan Ukraine’s national myth.

Until the West pressures Kiev to address its neo-fascist problem and stop supporting the radicals’ ideological orientation as state ideology, the Poroshenko administration and any successor will fail to comply with Minsk-2. So the next question is: Do Washington and Brussels want Minsk-2 to succeed or do they prefer the ‘frozen conflict’ status quo and why?

Russian and Eurasian Politics
Who’s More in Violation of Minsk-2 – Kiev or Donbass?
Gordon M. Hahn | Analyst and Advisory Board Member of the Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Adjunct Professor and Senior Researcher, Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey; Senior Researcher, Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group, San Jose, California; a Contributor for Russia Direct, www.russia-direct.org; and an Analyst/Consultant, Russia Other Points of View – Russia Media Watch, http://www.russiaotherpointsofview.com.

Antifashist — "Civil Corps of Azov": How the U.S Feeds Ukraine With Nazis and Nationalists

On the basis of the above it is possible to sum up this sad result. At the moment in Ukraine the United States controls all important child and adolescent organizations, raising the Nazis and nationalists, who become the basis of nationalist and Nazi battalions, and continue to replenish their controlled cannon fodder. America doesn't mind what kind of garbage the russophobes have in their heads. What is nationalist, is Nazi.

The US deep state in action supporting neo-Nazis as well as Islamic terrorists. What could ever go wrong?

Fort Russ
"Civil Corps of Azov": How the U.S Feeds Ukraine With Nazis and Nationalists
Antifashist (sic - transliteration from Cyrillic)

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

See also

Salon
My drinks with a CIA mastermind: Over pinot noir in Georgetown, some hidden truths emerge

Elsa Givan