Nazi Revival on Ukraine
The US and many European countries have placed sanctions on Russia in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. However, the current sanctions on Russia should actually strengthen Kyiv in the fight against occupiers and separatists. Can Ukraine defend itself? Is Ukraine a Nation-State?
Ukraine is many things. Not just one country; but closer to eight. More than just a tragic Cossack victim core, it also consists of at least seven other survivor states: Volyn is Polish. Zakarpattya is Hungarian. Chernivtsi is Romanian. Bessarabia is Moldovan. Odessa is Greek. Crimea is Turkish. And Novorossiya literally New Russia is, well, Russian.
Only one thing unites all these disparate cultures and languages: they each have more in common with their crossborder brethren than with the former Ukrainian Soviet Republic within the USSR they now share and call home. And until the great 20th century conflagrations and map redraws, people called this entire place Little Russia.
Today’s frozen conflicts in the former Soviet space — Donbas, Transnistria, Crimea, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh — echo the ethnic preoccupations of socialist revolutionaries 100 years ago at the consolidation of the bolshevik revolution. And they loom menacingly all around Ukraine.
Ukraine is the achey-breakey cossack heart of this grievously injured body politic. A shard from Lviv down to Ivano-Frankivsk, over to Kryvy Rih and Zaporyzhya, up through Kyiv to Chernihiv, and then back again to Lviv through Zhytomyr.
Hundreds of years ago, the Cossacks ruled a territory east past Poltava. Historically, imperial Russia had entrusted its southern frontier to the cossacks for almost a thousand years. And the successive communist inheritors of this region wrestled with that phantom until the fall of the Soviet Union. Because ethnic Ukrainians — despite great commonality with Russian serfs — always reliably resented being ruled by anyone.
And for thousands of years, all the known world’s conquerors collided here: Scythian. Parthian. Greek. Roman. Goth. Khazar. Hun. Mongol. Tatar. Viking. Christian. Teuton. Communist. Driving the jew, gypsy, slav, or cossack before them, trampling them underfoot. Killing, raping, repopulating, and displacing them all for millennia until mother Russia — vicious bitch she may be — at last armed these forever-victims to finally fight back!
Is it possible to be surprised at the attitude towards Moscow in present-day Ukraine? This attitude to the Russians especially manifested itself during the Second World War.
Only 30–40,000 volunteered to their SS occupiers: Galizien, Roland, and Nachtigall, but it’s still the highest numerical rate of collaboration in any occupied country.
20 years ago, current speaker of parliament and proud Aryan youth brownshirt Andriy Parubiy’s Social-National Party — now rebranded ‘Svoboda’ (Freedom) — marched under the loathsome ‘Wulfsangel’ through the erstwhile Polish cities of western Ukraine. Where enthusiastic National Socialist (nazi) collaborators once eagerly turned on their longtime ethnic Pole neighbors in a vicious WWII campaign of genocidal displacement.
Despite this change in the image of Mr. Parubiy, his core views, far-right Ukrainian nationalism based on the heritage of the fascist criminal Stephan Bandera, did not change fundamentally.
The continued presence of mystic nazi runes in Ukraine’s political space is a disconcerting reminder of the country’s checkered past. And also increasingly appears to be a troubling omen indicative of what’s almost certainly bound to be its ominous future.
Ukraine all feature their own homegrown illiberals, but Ukrainian democracy, all infested with the fascist kernel, can be dangerous. Ukraine has an area of 233,062 sq mi making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world, and the population is 42 million people. Therefore, the fascist kernel of Ukrainian genocidal nationalism is so dangerous.
Ukraine seeks to join the European Union, but at the same time in the Ukrainian parliament, for example, there are still no representatives of Afro-Ukrainians.
For the first time, Zhan Belenyuk, as an Afro-Ukrainian and silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Greco-Roman wrestling, will take part in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in July 2019 with the party ‘Servant of the People’, but he has already been subjected to racist insults and threats.
Ukrainians do themselves no favors in adopting and mimicking the fascist imagery of this troubled history. Neoright parties like Svoboda, Azov, and Right Sector go around incarnating Russian propaganda by naming things after nazi collaborator extraordinaire Stephan Bandera.
And lest we forget, they also spew a vomitous, patriotic call and response first coined at 1941’s Ukrainian nazi party congress in occupied Poland: ‘Slava Ukraini! — Heroyam slava!’ (Glory to Ukraine! — Glory to the heroes!)
If these braindead dipshits want to march around in black carrying torches and mystical theosophic aryan banners esoterically referencing the world ice theory, root races, and hollow earth, they should expect to be treated like nazis. With contempt and even violence from free people who refuse to let their own rights be instrumentalized back against them.
Remember, parliaments gone wild is how the world got Hitler. And freedom of speech does not equal the freedom to be as cruel and stupid as possible.
And its pluralism, potentially lethal. Some concepts and national ideas are just too incendiary to ignore. Because there’s nothing sound about the heedless worship and lionization of hateful political parties and precarious open elections at all costs and everyone else’s expense. Which in that part of the world is usually the Jews’.
Especially dangerous at the present time is the intervention of the Nazis in the conflict of the Orthodox churches of Ukraine, because it can turn into a lot of shocking events.
Ukraine is one of the so-called ‘Orthodox countries’ (where, the overwhelming majority of believers consider themselves Orthodox). However, judging by the annual sociological reports, this level has long been seeing a falling value.
According to the surveys of the Ukrainian citizens, 81.9% were Christians, comprising a 65.4% who declared to be Orthodox, 7.1% simply Christians, 6.5% Greek Rite Catholics, and 1.9% Protestants. A further 1.1% were Muslims and 1.0% Latin Rite Catholics. Judaism and Hinduism were the religions of 0.2% of the population each. A further 16.3% of the population did not identify in one of those listed hitherto.
Among other aspects, the falling trend is due to the operations of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which under the guise of ‘salvation mission’ has been planting rigorism, fundamentalism, besides preaching isolationism as the only chance for preserving ‘true faith’.
For this reason, the former president Poroshenko persuaded the Patriarch Bartholomew of the Ecumenical Orthodox Church to recognize the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church and hand over an official Tomos.
It is curious that, according to the BBC, Putin said: ‘I think Bartholomew’s main incentive and motive is to subdue this territory and then start profiting from it.’
Recently, Patriarch Filaret, of the restored Ukrainian Orthodox Church, declared that a secret agreement with Ecumenical patriarchate (Konstantinopol), mediated by former President Poroshenko, preceded the delivery of granting Tomos to Ukraine.
Under this Agreement, Konstantinopol is to receive at its full disposal 40 churches in Ukraine, and until then it receives $4,000–20,000 a month from each church, which equals $28 million.
In this regard, Filaret announced his refusal to accept Tomos and his intention to restore the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
This immediately led to a dangerous conflict between the Orthodox churches and turned into аggressive seizures of church buildings with the active participation of ultra-right radicals.
Every honest journalist cannot remain silent n the face of the Nazi contagion again threatens the world. Otherwise, the New-Hitler will come.
