Posted on 03/06/2022 7:02:44 PM PST by little jeremiah
While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters. Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of extreme right paramilitary units keeping up the fight against separatists just a few miles away.
Elected on a platform of de-escalation of hostilities with Russia, Zelensky was determined to enforce the so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by then-German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier which called for elections in the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
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A few nuggets.
Backed by Zelensky’s top financier, neo-Nazi militants unleash a wave of intimidation
Incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard, the Azov Battalion is considered the most ideologically zealous and militarily motivated unit fighting pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbass region.
With Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel insignia on the uniforms of its fighters, who have been photographed with Nazi SS symbols on their helmets, Azov “is known for its association with neo-Nazi ideology…[and] is believed to have participated in training and radicalizing US-based white supremacy organizations,” according to an FBI indictment of several US white nationalists that traveled to Kiev to train with Azov.
Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian energy baron of Jewish heritage, has been a top funder of Azov since it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled private militias like the Dnipro and Aidar Battalions, and has deployed them as a personal thug squad to protect his financial interests.
In 2019, Kolomoisky emerged as the top backer of Zelensky’s presidential bid. Though Zelensky made anti-corruption the signature issue of his campaign, the Pandora Papers exposed him and members of his inner circle stashing large payments from Kolomoisky in a shadowy web of offshore accounts.
Zelensky failed to rein in neo-Nazis, wound up collaborating with them
Following his failed attempt to demobilize neo-Nazi militants in the town of Zolote in October 2019, Zelensky called the fighters to the table, telling reporters “I met with veterans yesterday. Everyone was there – the National Corps, Azov, and everyone else.”
A few seats away from the Jewish president was Yehven Karas, the leader of the neo-Nazi C14 gang.
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After Prime Minister attends neo-Nazi concert, Zelensky honors Right Sector leader
Just days after Zelensky’s meeting with Karas and other neo-Nazi leaders in November 2019, Oleksiy Honcharuk – then the Prime Minister and deputy head of Zelensky’s presidential office – appeared on stage at a neo-Nazi concert organized by C14 figure and accused murderer Andriy Medvedko.
Zelensky’s Minister for Veterans Affairs not only attended the concert, which featured several antisemitic metal bands, she promoted the concert on Facebook.
Also in 2019, Zelensky defended Ukrainian footballer Roman Zolzulya against Spanish fans taunting him as a “Nazi.” Zolzulya had posed beside photos of the World War II-era Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and openly supported the Azov Battalion. Zelensky responded to the controversy by proclaiming that all of Ukraine backed Zolzulya, describing him as “not only a cool football player but a true patriot.”
In November 2021, one of Ukraine’s most prominent ultra-nationalist militiamen, Dmytro Yarosh, announced that he had been appointed as an advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yarosh is an avowed follower of the Nazi collaborator Bandera who led Right Sector from 2013 to 2015, vowing to lead the “de-Russification” of Ukraine.
Wait, I thought there were no nazis. That’s what they said when Putin said he was gonna hunt down the nazis.
In a ZDF report on the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, images were shown of soldiers wearing combat helmets with SS insignia and swastikas
German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers In a ZDF report on the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, images were shown of soldiers wearing combat helmets with SS insignia and swastikas
the inconvenient details… not sure this will dent the love affair so many have with this guy
Zelensky got 70% of the vote in a country of 40 million people. Even the opposition conceded the win.
But, still the whole country is Nazis. Really?
It’s the exact same strategy used so successfully against American conservatives by the Mainstream Media, Big Tech, Academia and the DOJ/FBI deep state bureaucracy.
Find the fringe element of white supremacists and neo-Nazis (even create them with undercover agents if you have to!), associate them with the entire conservative movement and then endlessly repeat the smear in the media echo chamber.
Pretty soon you have people stuffing ballot boxes in urban centers (gotta fight white supremacism!), taking to the streets to burn, loot and murder (fight the fascists!) and passing laws to cancel entire categories of people.
Remember how a Charlottesville rally against mobs unlawfully destroying historic monuments was turned by the media into a huge Nazi rally?
So now we have the entire country of Ukraine deserves to be killed and taken over by Russia, because of THE NAZIS, YOU GUYS!
Russia, in which Putin himself is a Russo-Slavic fascist trying to combine the Great Russians, the White Russians and the Little Russians into some new ethno-centric empire.
And Russia, in which the government is not just corrupted by criminal oligarchs, the government consists of criminal oligarchs!
It’s as if the Gambino crime family said, “we need to take out this one small family skimming money in the construction business and take over their operation, because they are MOBSTERS!”
The plot thickens. And, to mix metaphors, there sure is a lot of Nazi smoke.
If people want to know the truth (about anything), they have to want to know truth more than cling to beliefs.
It’s simple. :-)
The conflict between these two countries is an “existential threat” to the world only if we make it one.
Putin isn’t going to nuke New York.
Putin isn’t going to send armored divisions into Germany.
This is a very localized problem, until we decide that it should be WWIII. If this blows up and gets out of control, it’s more our fault than it is Putin’s fault. He started something small. And it can stay small. Unless we’re stupid.
Is it hard to believe that a Jew to whom being Jewish means nothing would make common cause with whatever non-Jewish culture he found himself in?
Why is FR becoming Russian propaganda machine?
I suggest you read some real news before typing up stuff that makes you look foolish. I have posted several articles today and have a lot more I could post. I have been reading nonstop about this for many days, before the mil offensive. I read about Ukraine on the live thread years ago, every comment.
I am highly informed; more than I wish in fact.
I suggest that you study up and learn.
A photo was circulating a couple of days ago in the main stream media, of a Ukrainian grandmother who was being trained on how to use a rifle. The soldier who was training her had a Wolfsangel patch on his sleeve.
But of course the media never drew attention to the patch and obviously thought the public would be too stupid to notice it.
Why do some people want to side with Soros, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, corrupt US politicians, and Maria Abramovich the spirit cooking witch?
You are a propagandist
Maybe it’s because they are not actually Nazies, but simply Ukrainian nationalists?
Yes they are proud of the groups that fought alongside Hitler in WWII, but they did so because Hitler was then the only hope to free Ukraine from Stalin.
The mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the corrupt government machine. Amazing they missed that photo and let it slip through. Tsk tsk.
they have to want to know truth more than cling to beliefs
“Omgoodness,nooooo! I don’t want to listen cuz I don’t believe you!”
Right up there with my wife saying, “ you don’t know, you’re not a doctor. That’s not what i read on Cnn”
If you had studied and learned, open source info, you would know that the neo Nazis in Ukraine are actual, real, Nazis.
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