Die Zeit (Germany): How nepotism benefits Ukrainian neo-Nazis, 2014
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Why does the government help individual neo-Nazis to gain posts or fame? Why does the Ukrainian Interior Ministry support leaders of the neo-Nazi organization PU?
This cannot be explained by ideological orientation, because neither Avakov* nor Gerashchenko** are neo-Nazis. Rather, the explanation seems to lie in the past and be a consequence of sinister nepotism.
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This problematic relationship between the interior Ministry and the neo-Nazis to undermine the credibility of the new Ukrainian government, both internationally and in the Ukraine.
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*Avakov (on the photo next to Zelensky) — Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Other articles about him:
▫️Avakov says that his creation, the AZOV, has peculiar ethics, 2016
▫️Avakov defends the use of neo-Nazis in Donbass, 2014
**Gerashchenko — founder of The enemies of the state Official Open Ukraine Database, 2014
quote:
Why does the government help individual neo-Nazis to gain posts or fame? Why does the Ukrainian Interior Ministry support leaders of the neo-Nazi organization PU?
This cannot be explained by ideological orientation, because neither Avakov* nor Gerashchenko** are neo-Nazis. Rather, the explanation seems to lie in the past and be a consequence of sinister nepotism.
....
This problematic relationship between the interior Ministry and the neo-Nazis to undermine the credibility of the new Ukrainian government, both internationally and in the Ukraine.
==end of quote==
*Avakov (on the photo next to Zelensky) — Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Other articles about him:
▫️Avakov says that his creation, the AZOV, has peculiar ethics, 2016
▫️Avakov defends the use of neo-Nazis in Donbass, 2014
**Gerashchenko — founder of The enemies of the state Official Open Ukraine Database, 2014
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Der Standard(Austria): Ukrainian embassy in Vienna receives far-right fighters, 2016
The Ukrainian ambassador in Vienna, Olexander Scherba has posted pictures of Azov regiment veterans received for rehab in Austria. Commenting of the photos he has called them heroes... And the scandal erupted. :)
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"""Photos show a member of the ultra-nationalist "Azov Regiment" in Austrian rehab, where he wears a T-shirt from the ultra-nationalist brand "Svastone" that shows the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, but the Ukrainian Ambassador says this is all "stupid" and criticizes Russia."""
P.S. the last photo in the attached collection is Olexandr (the ambassador in the center, highest of all) receiving the Azov's members in the airport (the Mussolini guy is to the right of the ambassador)
P.P.S More Ukraine diplomats who love or are neo-nazis:
▫️Ukrainian ambassador to Canada was a neo-nazi, 2009
▫️Ukrainian ambassador to Germany is a mass murderer apologist, 2022
▫️Ukrainian council Hamburg is a neo-nazi, 2018
The Ukrainian ambassador in Vienna, Olexander Scherba has posted pictures of Azov regiment veterans received for rehab in Austria. Commenting of the photos he has called them heroes... And the scandal erupted. :)
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"""Photos show a member of the ultra-nationalist "Azov Regiment" in Austrian rehab, where he wears a T-shirt from the ultra-nationalist brand "Svastone" that shows the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, but the Ukrainian Ambassador says this is all "stupid" and criticizes Russia."""
P.S. the last photo in the attached collection is Olexandr (the ambassador in the center, highest of all) receiving the Azov's members in the airport (the Mussolini guy is to the right of the ambassador)
P.P.S More Ukraine diplomats who love or are neo-nazis:
▫️Ukrainian ambassador to Canada was a neo-nazi, 2009
▫️Ukrainian ambassador to Germany is a mass murderer apologist, 2022
▫️Ukrainian council Hamburg is a neo-nazi, 2018
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Amnesty International: Ukraine turned civilian objects into military targets, 2022
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Schools and hospitals used as military bases by Ukrainian forces:
▫️"We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price" - resident in city of Bakhmut
▫️"Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law" - Agnès Callamard
The Ukrainian military has endangered civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas - including in schools and hospitals.
Ukraine’s tactics have violated humanitarian law as they’ve turned civilian objects into military targets.
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More on the subject:
▫️Die Welt: Ukraine position artillery in residential areas, hospitals, 2022
▫️Adviser to the Ukrainian President: We didn't start the evacuation of civilians as not to lose the war, 2022
▫️Washington Post: Humanitarian laws don’t apply to Ukraine, 2022
▫️Estia (Greece): Azov battalions used us as hostages!, 2022
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Schools and hospitals used as military bases by Ukrainian forces:
▫️"We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price" - resident in city of Bakhmut
▫️"Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law" - Agnès Callamard
The Ukrainian military has endangered civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas - including in schools and hospitals.
Ukraine’s tactics have violated humanitarian law as they’ve turned civilian objects into military targets.
===end of quote===
More on the subject:
▫️Die Welt: Ukraine position artillery in residential areas, hospitals, 2022
▫️Adviser to the Ukrainian President: We didn't start the evacuation of civilians as not to lose the war, 2022
▫️Washington Post: Humanitarian laws don’t apply to Ukraine, 2022
▫️Estia (Greece): Azov battalions used us as hostages!, 2022
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Jerusalem Post: Nazi collaborators included in Ukrainian memorial project, 2021
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"""The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory* memorializing those who collaborated with the Nazis and carried out atrocities against local populations.
The project also memorializes controversial Ukrainian nationalists also accused of responsibility for the murder of Jews during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1923, and during the Holocaust.
Amongst those memorialized on the site are a deputy commander of the 118th Schutzmanshaft Battalion, a commander of the 109th Schutzmanshaft Battalion, Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera and Symon Petliura, a politician in the Ukrainian People's Republic which existed from 1917 to 1920.
*a dedicated article about this "institute":
▫️The Foreign Policy: Ukraine myth making Institute, 2016
more on the subject:
▫️El Pais (Spain): the Ukrainian fascists were elevated to national heroes, 2014
▫️Washington Post: Ukraine Has Better Heroes Than This Friend of Fascism, 2022
quote:
"""The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory* memorializing those who collaborated with the Nazis and carried out atrocities against local populations.
The project also memorializes controversial Ukrainian nationalists also accused of responsibility for the murder of Jews during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1923, and during the Holocaust.
Amongst those memorialized on the site are a deputy commander of the 118th Schutzmanshaft Battalion, a commander of the 109th Schutzmanshaft Battalion, Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera and Symon Petliura, a politician in the Ukrainian People's Republic which existed from 1917 to 1920.
*a dedicated article about this "institute":
▫️The Foreign Policy: Ukraine myth making Institute, 2016
more on the subject:
▫️El Pais (Spain): the Ukrainian fascists were elevated to national heroes, 2014
▫️Washington Post: Ukraine Has Better Heroes Than This Friend of Fascism, 2022
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Myśl Polska (Poland): Resurgence of Nazism in Ukraine, 2021
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"""Ukraine has not only extreme nationalism in the form of banderism, but also regular Nazism, a clear manifestation of which is the glorification of SS Galizien, monumental necropolises of SS members, annual parades on the streets and a whole network of organizations, both political and paramilitary, that use and justify Nazi ideology.
All of this looks like some kind of nightmare, a reality that would only have been common in Europe if Hitler had won the war. Until now, such events, organizations, and people associated with them functioned almost exclusively in the western regions of Ukraine, those that were part of the Second Republic of Poland before 1939. However, this is now changing.
This year, for the first time, there was a march in honor of SS Galizien, in the country's capital, Kiev. The authorities of this city allowed it. """
P.S. Photo: the Ukrainian 1st Galicia Waffen SS troops inspection by the Nazi officers.
quote:
"""Ukraine has not only extreme nationalism in the form of banderism, but also regular Nazism, a clear manifestation of which is the glorification of SS Galizien, monumental necropolises of SS members, annual parades on the streets and a whole network of organizations, both political and paramilitary, that use and justify Nazi ideology.
All of this looks like some kind of nightmare, a reality that would only have been common in Europe if Hitler had won the war. Until now, such events, organizations, and people associated with them functioned almost exclusively in the western regions of Ukraine, those that were part of the Second Republic of Poland before 1939. However, this is now changing.
This year, for the first time, there was a march in honor of SS Galizien, in the country's capital, Kiev. The authorities of this city allowed it. """
P.S. Photo: the Ukrainian 1st Galicia Waffen SS troops inspection by the Nazi officers.
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The Telegraph (UK): 70 scholars appeal to President of Ukraine to call off the 'history laws' making it "a crime to question the legitimacy of UPA that slaughtered tens of thousands of Poles", 2015
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A group of 70 scholars on Ukraine appealed to Mr Poroshenko to call off the “history laws”, saying they would stifle debate and make it “a crime to question the legitimacy of an organization (UPA) that slaughtered tens of thousands of Poles in one of the most heinous acts of ethnic cleansing in the history of Ukraine”.
The UPA was established as a guerrilla group in 1942. The previous year, Roman Shukhevych and other Ukrainian nationalists had formed the Nachtigall and Roland battalions under German command to support the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
Members of the OUN and UPA massacred between 60,000 and 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and Galicia, and also helped kill Jews.
P.S. Photo: Roman Shukhevych (seated, second from left) wearing German uniform in the Nachtigall Battalion, 1942
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A group of 70 scholars on Ukraine appealed to Mr Poroshenko to call off the “history laws”, saying they would stifle debate and make it “a crime to question the legitimacy of an organization (UPA) that slaughtered tens of thousands of Poles in one of the most heinous acts of ethnic cleansing in the history of Ukraine”.
The UPA was established as a guerrilla group in 1942. The previous year, Roman Shukhevych and other Ukrainian nationalists had formed the Nachtigall and Roland battalions under German command to support the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
Members of the OUN and UPA massacred between 60,000 and 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and Galicia, and also helped kill Jews.
P.S. Photo: Roman Shukhevych (seated, second from left) wearing German uniform in the Nachtigall Battalion, 1942
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Newsweek: Zelensky's Lies Can't Hide Ukraine's Bloody Role in the Holocaust, 2022
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Zelensky has never apologized for the following statement he made this past March: "The Ukrainians made a choice 80 years ago, we saved Jews..." He is right the Ukrainian people made a choice 80 years ago, but it wasn't to save Jews.
Almost without exception, Ukrainians either participated in the mass murder of Jews or said nothing as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and slaughtered in places like Babi Yar.
The complicity of Ukrainians in these mass murders was greater than in most other countries.
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Jerusalem Post: Nazi collaborators included in Ukrainian memorial project, 2021
P.S. Wanna laugh? or cry? The Article about another nazi-Jew in the Ukraine Parliament (banderism is a local to Ukraine version of nazism)
quote:
Zelensky has never apologized for the following statement he made this past March: "The Ukrainians made a choice 80 years ago, we saved Jews..." He is right the Ukrainian people made a choice 80 years ago, but it wasn't to save Jews.
Almost without exception, Ukrainians either participated in the mass murder of Jews or said nothing as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and slaughtered in places like Babi Yar.
The complicity of Ukrainians in these mass murders was greater than in most other countries.
===end of quote===
Jerusalem Post: Nazi collaborators included in Ukrainian memorial project, 2021
P.S. Wanna laugh? or cry? The Article about another nazi-Jew in the Ukraine Parliament (banderism is a local to Ukraine version of nazism)
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Forward (Israel): Ukraine has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace since 2014
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Beginning in 2014, when the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine, the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or street renaming nearly every week. Because of this, the Ukraine section represents an extremely partial listing of the several hundred monuments, statues, and streets named after Nazi collaborators in Ukraine.
Over the past six years, Ukraine has been institutionalizing worship of the paramilitary Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis and aided in the slaughter of Jews, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which massacred thousands of Jews and 70,000-100,000 Poles.
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P.S. The article compiles a big collection of monuments to the nazi collaborators in Ukraine.
quote:
Beginning in 2014, when the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine, the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or street renaming nearly every week. Because of this, the Ukraine section represents an extremely partial listing of the several hundred monuments, statues, and streets named after Nazi collaborators in Ukraine.
Over the past six years, Ukraine has been institutionalizing worship of the paramilitary Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis and aided in the slaughter of Jews, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which massacred thousands of Jews and 70,000-100,000 Poles.
===end of quote===
P.S. The article compiles a big collection of monuments to the nazi collaborators in Ukraine.
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AgoraVox (France): The mayor of Kherson celebrates Ukraine collaboration with the Nazi Germany with billboards, 2020 (web.archived link)
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Large billboards (web.archive) were displayed across the city of Kherson on the occasion of the anniversary of the act of restoration of Ukraine (published on June 30, 1941).
Watch the wide ribbon in colors of the Ukrainian flag on the right side of the billboard closely.
Do you think this is an accidental ornamental element? Its width unwitting? Its placement unintentional?🤔
No... The ribbon is covering the 3rd article of "The Act". But why?
The said "article" stipulates the Ukraine cooperation with the Nazi Germany.
Let's read it together, shall we? 😊
to be continued...
quote:
Large billboards (web.archive) were displayed across the city of Kherson on the occasion of the anniversary of the act of restoration of Ukraine (published on June 30, 1941).
Watch the wide ribbon in colors of the Ukrainian flag on the right side of the billboard closely.
Do you think this is an accidental ornamental element? Its width unwitting? Its placement unintentional?🤔
No... The ribbon is covering the 3rd article of "The Act". But why?
The said "article" stipulates the Ukraine cooperation with the Nazi Germany.
Let's read it together, shall we? 😊
to be continued...
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From The Act of Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood (the red rectangle in the photo):
"Article #3.
The newly formed Ukrainian state will work closely with the National-Socialist Greater Germany, under the leadership of its leader Adolf Hitler which is forming a new order in Europe and the world and is helping the Ukrainian People to free itself from Moscovite occupation".
The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army which has been formed on the Ukrainian lands, will continue to fight with the Allied German Army against Moscovite occupation for a sovereign and united State and a new order in the whole world.
Long live the Ukrainian Sovereign United Ukraine! Long live the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists! Long live the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian people – STEPAN BANDERA!
SLAVA UKRAINI!*
====end of article===
*And now you know why the Russians take this Ukrainian salute as a nazi one.
to be continued...
"Article #3.
The newly formed Ukrainian state will work closely with the National-Socialist Greater Germany, under the leadership of its leader Adolf Hitler which is forming a new order in Europe and the world and is helping the Ukrainian People to free itself from Moscovite occupation".
The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army which has been formed on the Ukrainian lands, will continue to fight with the Allied German Army against Moscovite occupation for a sovereign and united State and a new order in the whole world.
Long live the Ukrainian Sovereign United Ukraine! Long live the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists! Long live the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian people – STEPAN BANDERA!
SLAVA UKRAINI!*
====end of article===
*And now you know why the Russians take this Ukrainian salute as a nazi one.
to be continued...
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AgoraVox (France): Ukraine – Promoting the sterilization of the unemployed and the ode to the collaboration with the Nazis, 2020
quote:
Deciding to publicly celebrate the anniversary of this act of open collaboration with the Nazis, the mayor of Kherson comes to prove that modern Ukraine has sunk completely in the neo-nazism. It is not the initiative of small groups of neo-nazis, but by an official authority of the country (a mayor), which celebrates the collaboration of his country with Nazi Germany!
P.S. More about nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera whose name was mentioned in the act:
▫️University of Pittsburgh: Institutes of memory management and myth making were created in Ukraine, a key function -- to deny ww2 atrocities of the newly forged national heroes, 2005
▫️The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the Bandera lead UPA, (1943-1945)
▫️USA Today: Ukrainian President decorated a responsible for WW2 ethnic cleansings Bandera with the Hero of Ukraine award, 2010
quote:
Deciding to publicly celebrate the anniversary of this act of open collaboration with the Nazis, the mayor of Kherson comes to prove that modern Ukraine has sunk completely in the neo-nazism. It is not the initiative of small groups of neo-nazis, but by an official authority of the country (a mayor), which celebrates the collaboration of his country with Nazi Germany!
P.S. More about nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera whose name was mentioned in the act:
▫️University of Pittsburgh: Institutes of memory management and myth making were created in Ukraine, a key function -- to deny ww2 atrocities of the newly forged national heroes, 2005
▫️The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the Bandera lead UPA, (1943-1945)
▫️USA Today: Ukrainian President decorated a responsible for WW2 ethnic cleansings Bandera with the Hero of Ukraine award, 2010
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Reuters: Virulent far-right extremism that has been poisoning Ukrainian politics and public life may soon endanger Ukraine, 2018
quote:
Azov and other militias have attacked anti-fascist demonstrations, city council meetings, media outlets, art exhibitions, foreign students and Roma. Progressive activists describe a new climate of fear that they say has been intensifying ever since last year's near-fatal stabbing of anti-war activist Stas Serhiyenko, which is believed to have been perpetrated by an extremist group named C14* (the name refers to a 14-word slogan popular among white supremacists).
...
virulent far-right extremism that has been poisoning Ukrainian politics and public life, but without vigorous and immediate efforts to counteract it, it may soon endanger the state itself.
*About C14 neo-nazis:
▫️Atlantic Council: Kyiv city district signed an agreement allowing C14 to patrol the streets. 2019
▫️NBC News: Ukraine suffered a wave of anti-Roma pogroms in 2018 (about C14 involvement)
quote:
Azov and other militias have attacked anti-fascist demonstrations, city council meetings, media outlets, art exhibitions, foreign students and Roma. Progressive activists describe a new climate of fear that they say has been intensifying ever since last year's near-fatal stabbing of anti-war activist Stas Serhiyenko, which is believed to have been perpetrated by an extremist group named C14* (the name refers to a 14-word slogan popular among white supremacists).
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virulent far-right extremism that has been poisoning Ukrainian politics and public life, but without vigorous and immediate efforts to counteract it, it may soon endanger the state itself.
*About C14 neo-nazis:
▫️Atlantic Council: Kyiv city district signed an agreement allowing C14 to patrol the streets. 2019
▫️NBC News: Ukraine suffered a wave of anti-Roma pogroms in 2018 (about C14 involvement)
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