By Al Bienenfeld
As all wars do, the war in Ukraine has produced volumes of propaganda. The most popular theme is that Volodymyr Zelensky (genetically Jewish but without any Jewish religious or cultural ties) opposes the “Hitler-like” Putin. Indeed, Zelensky has accused Putin of Hitler-esque antisemitism, a claim that garners support from American Jews and the media. Israelis, however, do not support this assertion. They know the truth, which is that Ukraine has deep roots in Naziism, a relationship Ukraine celebrates to this day.
During the Holocaust, approximately 800,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered, many by their fellow countrymen who saw the Nazis as liberators from Soviet oppression. The Nazis arrived just a few years after the Holomodor, which saw Joseph Stalin’s policies lead to the deaths of between five and seven million Ukrainians.
Because many Jews thought communism would save them from Christian and Tsarist depredations, they allied themselves with the communists, leading Ukrainians to blame all Jews for the Holomodor. The Ukrainians, therefore, were only too happy to join the Nazis in murdering their Jewish neighbors.
To this day, with all that is known about Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, many Ukrainians still view the Nazis as liberators. The Soviet Union may be gone, but Ukrainian and Western leaders have channeled hatred once reserved for the Soviet Union has been channeled into hatred for Russia. As part of this anti-Russian mindset, Western leaders and their loyal press corps have helped legitimize Nazism by willfully ignoring the fact that they bankroll a Nazi army that fights the Russians.
For decades, the Soviet occupation held Ukrainian Nazism in check. That ended in 1991 with the Soviet Union’s dissolution, followed by Ukraine’s independence from Russia. Politically, Ukraine has had a strong mix of ethnic Ukrainians and Russians. There were always tensions, but the current instability resulted from Western interference, especially from America and England. When Victoria Nuland orchestrated a 2014 coup against the legitimate government led by ethnic Russian Viktor Yanukovych, that unleashed the powerful Nazi element that had lain dormant for so long in Ukraine.
The first evidence of a Nazi resurgence occurred just after the 2014 coup. To deal with protesters, the government unleashed their Nazi Azov militia. The militia was called in because Ukraine military regulars would not do what the Azov did.
Writing at Consortium News in May 2014, Robert Parry recounted the roundup of ethnic Russians who were protesting the overthrow of the Yanukovych government. According to Parry, on May 2, in the port city of Odessa, the Azov militia herded the Russians into buildings that were then set ablaze, killing 40 people. Afterward, reporters spotted graffiti on walls with Swastika-like symbols honoring the “Galician SS,” the Ukrainian adjunct to the German SS in World War II. The Azov military repeated this barbaric action on May 9 in Mariupol, another port city.
In 2016, Kiev, Ukraine’s capital city, renamed two streets in honor of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. Both men were among numerous Ukrainians who collaborated with the Nazis, including volunteering with the SS. Bandera and Shukhevych were complicit in the mass murderers of Jews and Poles but are celebrated as anti-communist heroes in Ukraine. In 2019, a Ukrainian court ruled against the honor accorded these Nazis, at which point Kiev’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, announced on Facebook that he would appeal the ruling. (As of now, the ruling does not appear to have been overturned.)
In 2018 in Lviv, hundreds of men wearing the SS uniforms of Ukrainian collaborators marched in a city-approved event. At least three Ukrainian municipalities in recent years have unveiled statues for Bandera’s deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko. During the Holocaust, Stetsko openly called for “the extermination of the Jews.”
Swiss Intelligence Officer Jacques Baud wrote:
On 16 March 2022, a journalist on TV channel Ukraine 24 quoted the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman and called for the massacre of Russian-speaking children. On 21 March, military doctor Gennadiy Druzenko declared on the same channel that he had ordered his doctors to castrate Russian prisoners of war.
There were subsequent apologies for these statements. However, they did not seem to arise from anything other than President Zelensky’s fear that this blatant Nazi worship would lead to Western nations withdrawing their support for his war.
In any event, Ukrainian Nazism is no secret. Western leaders are aware of it. When Fox News’s Bret Baier questioned Zelensky about the Azov Battalion, Zelensky simply said, “They are what they are.” According to the Conservative Treehouse, Fox later edited out this portion of the interview.
I still find not one reason why American treasure should be sent to any of these countries.
I find no American interests there at all.
I honestly do care what these people do to each other.
This war is a war of attrition and Russia is winning. If Ukraine does not have enough sense to end the conflict let them die until there are none left to fight.
Its time to bring our Military Home to protect America from the Invaders and for the United Nations to be moved to Moscow and we can help out after a Natural Disaster
Embracing Nazism isnt new, NATO (google nazis in Nato) The UN, CIA (yup nazi spies as a foundation) Do you think Israel went after all the nazis for their war crimes? An expert spymaster, Reinhard Gehlen surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War II in order to work with the CIA before founding Germany’s modern intelligence service with hundreds of former Nazis like him.
So not just NASA. with its operation paperclip.
As with everything start with a a rotted foundation make a crappy house, they assassinate Presidents.
Lindsey a nazi ass kisser and all for funding this latest WEF slush fund in Ukraine got a warm welcome at the last Rally in NC, his home. We know he and McStain were there urging the slaughter after the coup…war pigs.
It makes no sense to analyze Ukraine and Russia based on western standards. The region has been rife with corruption and distrust for centuries. Add to that the oppression of communism and you don’t have normal people in leadership who simply want stuff like “rights” and “freedom”.
Anti-Semitism is also a mainstay of the region, if not the world. Sure, it’s baseless and misguided but it has been an underlying sentiment as long as there have been Jews outside of Judea. Add totalitarianism to that scenario and you get stains on humanity like the Holocaust.
When the Nazis swept through eastern Europe, people like the Ukrainians thought they had been liberated. Had the Nazis restrained their lust for murderous vengeance, they might well have caused the fall of the Soviet Unition and may well have altered the entire course of the war. But, making Jews the scapegoat for all that is bad is hard to restrain and that, and trying to wipe out any competition leadership, turned most of the populace away from Germany’s grace.
But, many Ukrainians embraced Nazism BECAUSE of the anti-Semitism. Ukrainians served as guards in most concentration and extermination camps. Ukrainians fought alongside the Germans against the Soviet Union. After all, what is the actual difference between Nazism and Communism? Down on Main Street, it’s pretty much the same effect: oppression.
So, Ukrainian Nazis and Russian Nazis are two sides of the same coin. No, we shouldn’t care. No, it probably doesn’t make any difference to the rest of the world. But aggression is dangerous and allowing it will only encourage more of it. Under Trump, we could have avoided the issue, not enabling Putin with a flood of petro-dollars and others would not be likewise tempted to test the free world’s resolve to oppose aggression, but here we are. If the UN was anything aside from a clearing house for bribes, we’d see Russia stopped and China dissuaded. But, alas, the world, including the US in its current guise, is led by corrupt criminals that worry more about lining their pockets than peaceful coexistence and that’s how we got dragged into a war between Ukraine and Russia.
Thanks, idiot Biden.