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Analysis: U.S. Cozies Up to Kiev Gov't Including Far Right(McCain pictured next to Neo-Nazi leader?)
NBC News ^ | 3/30/2014 | Alexander Smith

Posted on 04/04/2014 11:24:37 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

Edited on 04/04/2014 11:31:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The U.S. and Europe have been emphatic in their support of the new Ukrainian government – but a significant number of Washington's new bedfellows are members of what some experts class as extreme right-wing parties.

When Sen. John McCain traveled to Kiev in December, he told the crowd of 200,000 on Independence Square: "The free world is with you, America is with you, I am with you."

But among those stood next to the veteran Republican was Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda Party. Some policy analysts have called Svoboda ultra-nationalist and even neo-Nazi.

Svoboda, which means "Freedom," was given almost a quarter of the Cabinet positions in the interim government formed after the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych in February.

The party's policies center around protecting the rights of what it calls “ethnic Ukrainians,” the preservation of the Ukrainian language and culture, and strict controls on immigration.

Although much of the more extreme content has now been removed from Svoboda’s leaflets, the European Parliament passed a resolution on Ukraine in 2012 that asked Kiev not to associate with the party on account of its “racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views.”

One of the party's lawmakers was appointed to run the powerful defense ministry before being forced out. However, Svoboda still holds one of the vice prime minister posts as well as the ministries of agriculture and the environment.


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Weren't Svoboda and Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) instrumental in toppling the old gov't?

Is Oleh Neo-Nazi?

Didn't John Kerry say that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt were largely secular, and then two years later say that their ouster in Egypt was the restoration of Democracy in Egypt?

Hasn't a leader of the org. Right Sektor been shot by new gov't police lately?

Hmmm... Is this a case of not needing them anymore?

Just wondering...

1 posted on 04/04/2014 11:24:37 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; All

What say you?


2 posted on 04/04/2014 11:25:35 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Since when is a “Socialist-Nationalist” party “far-right?”

Yeah, that’s Svoboda’s original name.


3 posted on 04/04/2014 11:26:48 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus; All

I agree with you. Socialist Nationalists aren’t far right, but it is the template that we are often stuck with and have to work with.

Larger point is, either way, what is McCain doing?


4 posted on 04/04/2014 11:38:02 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
What say you?

We MUST support Obama, Progressive Socialist DemoRats, MSM Journolists and the Neo-Con Homofascistas against the evil Putin.

They can't be all wrong.

5 posted on 04/04/2014 11:40:11 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Same thing he’s always doing: making love to tyrants.


6 posted on 04/04/2014 11:47:20 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Well...Right Sectors 'New Official Press Secretary Olena Semenyaka' is a Nazi Swastika-waving, Hitler-saluting fascist from her photo she posted... who according to her FB posts does not advocate 'national independence' but 'a new fascist European Union.' .....(She is seen here in the upper left top corner of the swastika flag saluting)


7 posted on 04/04/2014 11:55:23 AM PDT by caww
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To: Admin Moderator

With 1/4 of the interim cabinet position being given to Svoboda, Kiev apparently ignored the 2012 European Parliament resolution - BIG TIME.


8 posted on 04/04/2014 11:59:34 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: dangus
Since when is a “Socialist-Nationalist” party “far-right?”

Exactly right!

Hitler himself once bragged of being a socialist. To label the Nazis as "extreme right," therefore, is downright silly. And highly inaccurate.

9 posted on 04/04/2014 12:00:01 PM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
from the mouth of Semenyaka herself:

"Practically, we are aimed at creating political blocks (not merely "economical"), in European context - new European Union (federation) with an autonomous political centre responsible for taking political desicions. Such a union should be based on open rejecting "liberal democratic" standards;...... the needed diversity will exist on the regional level. ... Liberals and leftists have no right to be represented in public sphere at all: they are at best selfish pragmatists, daydreamers, harmful chatter-boxes, etc. ... we have to face, actually, we already face the reality of the world state. The decline of national states, though, should be perceived as a positive process, because the latter are rather enemies than friends of an ethnos in an organic sense. ... what us really inspires is a new great project aimed at worldwide revolution "from the Right," https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=636951062981776&set=a.173886785954875.43159.100000006657027&type=1&permPage=1

10 posted on 04/04/2014 12:00:02 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Do those idiots have any clue what the Nazis did to Ukraine in WWII?


11 posted on 04/04/2014 12:08:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Here is a photo on Svobodas, Right sector Spokes woman...from facebook page..in which she attended this meeting..her comments below it as follows:

Olena Semenyaka

The lecture is quite long, so it will be hard to make English subtitles that fast..... the main thing is that nobody can see the faces. Approximately the same will be visible in the video. March 30 at 5:56am · 1

Olena Semenyaka Besides, the photos of the same room of their headquarters are uploaded on C14's page in VK, the only difference is that there are no torches and the flag) But it's something that is worth seeing! March 30 at 5:58am · 1

Bianca Isabela True, it's dark enough March 30 at 6:00am · 1

Bianca Isabela Initiatic atmosphere indeed !! March 30 at 6:01am · 2

Olena Semenyaka Yes, they've managed to create this atmosphere, so that I've even felt the presence of the spirits of the fallen... That's why I had to show it people like you! March 30 at 6:06am · 3

Bianca Isabela Thank you for this chance , dear Lena! I am really glad to see these "rituals" coming into shape more and more as they really should be , animated by high states of mind and spirit of young fighters with the proper symbolistic ambiance around and candles reminding torches.Seeing these pictures made me think someone like Evola would smile in approval March 30 at 6:18am · 1

Olena Semenyaka Completely share your feelings about the symbolic value of this moment and event! March 30, 2014


12 posted on 04/04/2014 12:08:38 PM PDT by caww
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To: colorado tanker
I have a few more coming of this woman and her Nazi loving friends....just so people aren't taken in by whatever the media prints about this gal...she's a nutcase Nazi lover IMO...and this just based on her face book page should convince anyone.

She is already attempting to dissuade the reports coming out about her now...saying the photo was a Halloween picture! LOLOLOL

13 posted on 04/04/2014 12:11:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: colorado tanker

If any care to check out what she posted here on her facebook page...This Jason fellow is fully in the trenches of the Nazi’s and she supports him! What he writes is beyond chilling!

Olena Semenyaka writes.... Thank you for “sending” it to us, Jason! Your words are much appreciated!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=755607294449485&set=a.173886785954875.43159.100000006657027&type=1


14 posted on 04/04/2014 12:16:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Here's another from the Right Sectors Official Spokeswomans FB page, with her comments: (I also believe she's involved with New Age Spiritualism as she uses much of their vocabulary when she posts on her page and in her speeches)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=756280797715468&set=a.173886785954875.43159.100000006657027&type=1

Olena Semenyaka

"The City Council has been released by the revolutionaries after the defeat of the former regime, but the banners remained, and it's a high time to raise them again! March 9 at 5:06pm


15 posted on 04/04/2014 12:26:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: colorado tanker
And again here she is...note the swastika at the neck....Feb.2014


16 posted on 04/04/2014 12:30:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Neo-Nazi would be fascist, right? This NOT even right wing much less far right.

Socialism: Govt ownership and control of the means of production.

Fascism: Govt control of the means of production with supposed private ownership of such means by those blessed by the rulers.

Sorry, but have been sick and tired of being tared with fascists for a long time; well past time to show the lie of it.


17 posted on 04/04/2014 12:32:36 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: dangus

Good point.

Just because they’re to the right of Marx and Lenin does not mean they are of the right.

Socialists of all stripes are of the LEFT, and we need to keep reminding people of that.


18 posted on 04/04/2014 12:35:58 PM PDT by WayneS (Help Control Politician Overpopulation - Spay or Neuter Your Senator or Congressman Today!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Mc Cain = Obama TOOL/DUPE
HE SPEAKS FOR ONLY HIMSELF AND PERHAPS HE HAS A MOUSE IN HIS POCKET (WE).... ussa riles up people to take action ....then trns its back.... obumbler is a COWARD and putin knows it.


19 posted on 04/04/2014 12:50:34 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Mc Cain = Obama TOOL/DUPE
HE SPEAKS FOR ONLY HIMSELF AND PERHAPS HE HAS A MOUSE IN HIS POCKET (WE).... ussa riles up people to take action ....then turns its back.... obumbler is a COWARD and putin knows it.


20 posted on 04/04/2014 12:50:45 PM PDT by zzwhale
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