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“The most aggressive element of the opposition is a group calling itself Pravy Sektor (right), a right-wing nationalist organization that critics liken to Nazis.”
- Washington Post, Feb. 22, 2014
“Ukraine’s U.S.-backed government is "unrepentant about using the neo-Nazis”
- The Telegraph, Aug. 11, 2014
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In the
context of the U.S. opposing a UN resolution designed to combat
glorification of Nazism (the only other countries to vote against the
resolution were Canada and Ukraine) an impression is created that the
U.S. will use any means necessary to achieve its goals in Eurasia.
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WHY IS THE U.S. SIDING WITH NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE?
"Ukraine,
a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical
pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to
transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian
empire," wrote former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
in his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard.
"However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia," said Brzezinski, who has been labeled, "The man behind Obama’s foreign policy."
Brzezinski recently told the Senate Armed Services committee that the U.S. and its allies should send troops to the Baltic states.
"However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia," said Brzezinski, who has been labeled, "The man behind Obama’s foreign policy."
Brzezinski recently told the Senate Armed Services committee that the U.S. and its allies should send troops to the Baltic states.
U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, front center, poses with
“the big three” Tyahnybok, left, Vitaly Klitschko, back
center, and Arseniy Yatseniuk, right, in Kiev, Feb. 2014.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
speaks at rally in Kiev, Dec. 2013. To McCain’s right is Svoboda
leader Oleh Tyahnybok, to his left is Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).
Pravy Sektor is the most radical
wing of Ukraine's Maidan protest movement that toppled President Viktor
Yanukovych in February, 2014. Its leader, Dmytro Yarosh (below) who won
a seat in Parliament,
calls himself a follower of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator during WWII. In 2013, Yarosh was put on Interpol’s wanted list for “public incitement to terrorist and extremist activities.”
Support for the Azov militia comes on top of U.S. backing of the Svoboda Party, a group condemned by a 2012 European Parliament resolution as “racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic,” and Pravy Sektor, a nationalist organization that has been characterized as neo-fascist.
Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok was expelled from parliament in 2004 after giving a speech demanding that Ukrainians fight against a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia," and for praising World War II partisans who fought Jews and "other scum."
Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok was expelled from parliament in 2004 after giving a speech demanding that Ukrainians fight against a "Muscovite-
"Arming Ukrainian forces would empower a monstrous crew of fascists and outright Nazi sympathizers.”
- Glenn Greenwald, Feb. 27, 2015
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In 2005 Tyahnybok demanded
that Ukraine do more to halt "criminal activities" of "organized
Jewry," and, even now, Svoboda openly calls for Ukrainian citizens to
have their ethnicity printed onto their passports.
Tyahnybok also declared that Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was a hero who was "fighting for truth."
Another top Svoboda member, Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, a deputy in parliament, often quotes Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, as well as other Third Reich luminaries like Ernst Rohm and Gregor Strasser.
Tyahnybok also declared that Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was a hero who was "fighting for truth."
Another top Svoboda member, Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, a deputy in parliament, often quotes Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, as well as other Third Reich luminaries like Ernst Rohm and Gregor Strasser.