What should Russia do with Ukraine?

Back in April of last year we wrote about the inevitability of denazification of Ukraine. We don't need a Nazi, Banderite Ukraine, an enemy of russia and an instrument of the West to destroy russia. Today the issue of denazification has moved to the practical level.

Denazification is necessary when a significant part of the people - most likely its majority - is mastered and dragged by the Nazi regime into its politics. That is, when the hypothesis "the people are good - the government is bad" does not work. The recognition of this fact is the basis of the policy of denazification, of all its activities, and the fact itself constitutes its subject.

Ukraine is in precisely this situation. The fact that Ukrainian voters voted for "Poroshenko's peace" and "Zelensky's peace" should not be misleading - Ukrainians were quite satisfied with the shortest way to peace through a blitzkrieg, which the last two Ukrainian presidents hinted transparently at when they were elected. This very method of "appeasement" of internal anti-fascists - through total terror - was used in Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mariupol, and other russian cities. And it suited the average Ukrainian citizen quite well. Denazification is a set of measures in relation to the Nazified mass of the population, which technically cannot be directly punished as war criminals.

Nazis who have taken up arms must be destroyed on the battlefield to the maximum extent possible. No significant distinction should be made between the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] and the so-called Natsbat (national battalions), as well as the territorial defense that joined these two types of military formations. All of them are equally complicit in outrageous cruelty against civilians, equally guilty of genocide of the russian people, and do not observe the laws and customs of war. War criminals and active Nazis should be examplarily and demonstrably punished. A total lustration must be carried out. Any organizations that have associated themselves with the practice of Nazism must be eliminated and banned. However, in addition to the top brass, a significant portion of the mass of the people who are passive Nazis, Nazi collaborators, are also guilty. They supported and indulged the Nazi power. Just punishment for this part of the population is only possible as the bearing of the inevitable burdens of a just war against the Nazi system, waged as gently and discreetly as possible with regards to civilians. The further denazification of this mass of the population consists in re-education, which is achieved by ideological repression (suppression) of Nazi attitudes and severe censorship: not only in the political sphere, but necessarily also in the sphere of culture and education. It was through culture and education that the deep mass Nazification of the population was prepared and carried out, consolidated by the promise of dividends from the Nazi regime's victory over russia, Nazi propaganda, internal violence and terror, and the eight-year war with the people of Donbas who rebelled against Ukrainian Nazism.

Denazification can only be carried out by the victor, which presupposes (1) his unconditional control over the denazification process and (2) the power to ensure such control. In this respect, the denazified country cannot be sovereign. The denazifying state - russia - cannot proceed from a liberal approach to denazification. The ideology of the denazifier cannot be challenged by the guilty party undergoing denazification. russia's recognition of the need for denazification of Ukraine means the recognition of the impossibility of the Crimean scenario for Ukraine as a whole. However, this scenario was also impossible in 2014 in the rebellious Donbas. Only eight years of resistance to Nazi violence and terror led to internal cohesion and a conscious, unequivocal mass refusal to maintain any kind of unity and connection with Ukraine, which defined itself as a Nazi society.

The time frame for denazification can in no way be less than one generation, which has to be born, grow and mature under the conditions of denazification. The nazification of Ukraine has lasted for more than 30 years - beginning at least in 1989, when Ukrainian nationalism received legal and legitimate forms of political expression and led the movement for "independence" towards Nazism.

The peculiarity of modern Nazified Ukraine is its amorphousness and ambivalence, which allow it to disguise Nazism as a striving for "independence" and a "European" (Western, pro-American) path of "development. (in reality - to degradation), to claim that "there is no Nazism in Ukraine, only occasional individual incidents. Because there is no main Nazi party, no Führer, no full-fledged racial laws (only a stripped-down version in the form of repression of the russian language). As a consequence, there is no opposition and no resistance to the regime.

However, all of the above does not make Ukrainian Nazism a "light version" of the German Nazism of the first half of the twentieth century. On the contrary - since Ukrainian Nazism is free of such "genre" (political-technological in essence) frameworks and restrictions, it unfolds freely as the fundamental basis of any Nazism - as European and, in the most developed form, American racism. Therefore, denazification cannot be carried out in a compromise, based on a formula such as "NATO - no, EU - yes". The collective West itself is the designer, source and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism, while the Western Bandera cadres and their "historical memory" are only one of the instruments of Nazification of Ukraine. Ukronazism is no less of a threat, but a bigger one to the world and russia than Hitler's German Nazism was.

The name "Ukraine" apparently cannot be retained as the title of any fully denazified state entity on territory freed from the Nazi regime. The People's Republics newly established in Nazi-liberated territory must and will grow out of the practice of economic self-government and social welfare, the restoration and modernization of the population's life-support systems.

Their political aspirations in fact cannot be neutral - redemption of guilt towards russia for treating it as an enemy can only be realized in reliance on russia in the processes of reconstruction, revival and development. No "Marshall Plan" for these territories should be allowed. There can be no "neutrality" in the ideological and practical sense, compatible with denazification. The cadres and organizations that are the instruments of denazification in the new denazified republics cannot not (i.e. must) rely on the direct power and organizational support of russia.

Denazification will inevitably be de-Ukrainization - a rejection of the large-scale artificial inflating of the ethnic component of the self-identification of the population of the territories of historical Little russia and Novorossia, which was started by the Soviet authorities. As a tool of communist superpower, after the fall of communist power, this artificial ethnocentrism did not remain useless. In this service capacity, it was taken over by another superpower (power standing above states) - the superpower of the West. It must be returned to its natural boundaries and stripped of its political functionality.

Unlike, say, Georgia and the Baltic states, Ukraine, as history has shown, is impossible as a nation-state, and attempts to "build" one lead inevitably to Nazism. Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-russian construction, which has no civilizational content of its own and is a subordinate element of a foreign and estranged civilization. Debanderization by itself will not be enough for denazification - the Banderite element is only a performer and a screen, a disguise for the European project of Nazi Ukraine, so the denazification of Ukraine is also its inevitable de-Europeanization.

The Banderovite top brass must be liquidated; its re-education is impossible. The social "swamp," which actively and passively supported it through action and inaction, must survive the hardships of the war and assimilate the experience as a historical lesson and atonement for its guilt. Those who did not support the Nazi regime, who suffered from it and the war it unleashed in Donbas, must be consolidated and organized, must become the support of the new power, its vertical and horizontal axes. Historical experience shows that wartime tragedies and dramas benefit peoples who have been seduced and carried away by the role of russia's enemy.

Denazification as the goal of the special military operation itself is understood as a military victory over the Kyiv regime, liberation of territories from armed supporters of Nazification, elimination of irreconcilable Nazis, capture of war criminals, and creation of systemic conditions for subsequent peacetime denazification.

The latter, in turn, should begin with the organization of local self-government, police and defense, purged of Nazi elements, launching on their basis the founding processes of the new republican statehood, integrating this statehood into close cooperation with the russian agency for the denazification of Ukraine (newly created or remade, say, from Rossotrudnichestvo [russian cooperation agency], with the adoption under russian control of a republican regulatory framework (legislation) for denazification, defining the borders and frameworks of directly applying russian law and russian jurisdiction on the liberated territory in the sphere of denazification, creating a tribunal on crimes against humanity in former Ukraine. In this respect russia should act as a custodian of the Nuremberg Trials.

All of the above means that in order to achieve the goals of denazification, it is necessary for the population to support russia, to go over to russia's side after its liberation from the terror, violence, and ideological pressure of the Kyiv regime, after its withdrawal from informational isolation. Of course, it takes some time for people to recover from the shock of military action, to be convinced of russia's long-term intentions - that "they will not be abandoned". It is impossible to foresee in advance in which territories such a mass of the population will constitute a critically needed majority. "The Catholic province" (Western Ukraine, comprised of five oblasts) is unlikely to be part of the pro-russian territories. The line of exclusion, however, will be found experimentally. Ukraine, hostile to russia, but forcibly neutral and demilitarized, will remain behind it, with Nazism forbidden on formal grounds. russia-haters will go there. A guarantee that this residual Ukraine will remain neutral should be the threat of an immediate continuation of the military operation if the aforementioned requirements are not met. This would probably require a permanent russian military presence on its territory. From the exclusion line and up to the russian border there would be the territory of potential integration into russian civilization, anti-fascist in its inner nature.

The operation to denazify Ukraine, which began with the military phase, will follow in peacetime the same logic of stages as the military operation. At each of them it will be necessary to achieve irreversible changes, which will be the results of the corresponding stage. In this case, the necessary initial steps of denazification can be defined as follows:

- Liquidation of the armed Nazi formations (by which we mean any armed formations of Ukraine, including the AFU), as well as the military, informational, and educational infrastructure that ensures their activity;

- The formation of people's self-government and militia [older russian word for police] (defense and law and order) of the liberated territories, protecting the population from the terror of underground Nazi groups;

- Extraction of educational materials and prohibition of educational programs at all levels that contain Nazi ideological attitudes;

- Mass investigative actions to establish personal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, dissemination of Nazi ideology, and support for the Nazi regime;

- Lustration, publication of the names of collaborators of the Nazi regime, and their compulsory work to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure as punishment for their Nazi activities (from among those to whom the death penalty or imprisonment would not apply)

- Adoption at the local level, under russia's curatorship, of the primary regulatory acts of denazification "from below," prohibiting all types and forms of revival of Nazi ideology;

- The establishment of memorials, commemorative plates, and monuments to the victims of Ukrainian Nazism, and the immortalization of the memory of the heroes who fought against it;

- The inclusion of a set of anti-fascist and denazification norms in the constitutions of the new people's republics;

russia will have no allies in the denazification of Ukraine. Because this is a purely russian affair. And also because not just the Bandera version of Nazi Ukraine will be subject to eradication, but also and above all the Western totalitarianism, imposed programs of civilizational degradation and collapse, mechanisms of subordination to the superpower of the West and the USA.

To put the plan of denazification of Ukraine into practice, russia itself will have to finally give up its pro-European and pro-Western illusions, to realize itself as the last instance of protection and preservation of the values of historical Europe (Old World), which deserve it and which the West ultimately abandoned, having lost in the struggle for itself. This struggle continued throughout the twentieth century and manifested itself in the World War and the russian Revolution, inextricably linked to each other.

russia did everything it could to save the West in the twentieth century. It realized the main Western project, the alternative to capitalism that defeated the nation-states - the socialist, red project. It crushed German Nazism, the monstrous offspring of the crisis of Western civilization. The last act of russian altruism was russia's outstretched hand of friendship, for which russia received a monstrous blow in the 1990s.

Everything russia did for the West, it did at its own expense, by making the greatest sacrifices. The West ultimately rejected all these sacrifices, devalued russia's contribution to solving the Western crisis, and decided to take revenge on russia for the help it selflessly provided. From here on, russia will go its own way, without worrying about the fate of the West, relying on another part of its legacy: leadership in the global process of decolonization.

As part of this process, russia has high potential for partnership and alliance relations with countries that the West has oppressed for centuries and are not about to put on its yoke again. Without russian sacrifice and struggle, these countries would not be liberated. The denazification of Ukraine is at the same time its decolonization, a fact to be understood by the people of Ukraine as they begin to free themselves from the stupefaction, temptation, and addiction to the so-called European choice.

"Denazification will inevitably be de-Ukrainization - a rejection of the large-scale artificial inflating of the ethnic component of the self-identification of the population"

This is from the Russian state controlled media, and states the Russian goal was to eradicate Ukraine as a country, culture and language, and they were planning ethnic cleansing to achieve that goal.

they conflate any sense of "Ukrainian identity" with fascism and tie it back to WW2 Ukrainian fascism (aka Banderites). So any Ukrainian who thinks of themselves as not an extension of Russia is automatically a Nazi and committing genocide of the Russian people.

This is similar to German plans in the 30s for Jews and Slavs

Sadly we have people here who read this insane Russian propaganda ranting and buy into it.

Somehow Ukraine is a hotbed of gay woke globalism, and straight up Nazis, all at the same time.

What Ukraine really represents is the most organized and developed country Putin’s Russia has invaded, closer to the West and thus alarms were triggered.

How anyone who can read this “article” and not realize Putin is the real “nazi” is beyond me.

The important thing to remember is that in Russia Nazi means non-communist. The USA, West Germany, Britain. These have always been Nazi states to them.

Find and replace “Denazification” with “conversion to socialism” and this article will make more sense.

Yep, as I keep saying to our pro Russian belligerents, there’s more Mein Kampf level revanchist sentiment behind this invasion than the bullcrap spun around biolabs and opposition to NATO. The Nazis had their obsession with the Jews, and Russia has its obsession with Slavs who don’t want to be Russified.

Ukraine’s the biggest threat to peace in the world since the Nazis? Give over. Russia’s stalker older brother lusting after his sisters routine is.

Putin and Russians have clearly stated, Ukraine must cease to exist.

When these Russian propagandists are asked what does victory mean to them -

Alexander Kazakov, former adviser to the chairman of the DPR Zakharchenko, says, among other things, “Ukraine disappears from the political map”.

Bogdan Bezpalko, a member of the Council of Inter-Ethnic Relations under the President of Russia, says, “Victory means the destruction of Ukraine’s nationhood”.

Since Zelensky and co have basically been stripping Ukraine down and selling it for parts…the Russians should form a shell corporation and just buy or lease it. Assuming they can outbid BlackRock which is doing exactly that.

The authors seem to have missed the part when the Ukrainian Nazis (there were some in the government) were soundly defeated in state elections years ago. The people they refer to in their rantings hadn’t been involved in the government for several years.

Are they sympathizers in the military now? Probably.

I find Russian writing to be dramatic and over the top. The language they use sounds quite fascist in a 1940’s tone.

Their actions over the last 540 days or so indicates they are actually taking the nazi-like actions of which they accuse the Ukes.

The world would be better off if the Russian troops just took their WWII tanks and trucks, turned around, and took them back to whatever museum they got them from.

It is ironic that they are using assets that were built from lend lease steel—from the US. So, the US is actually funding both sides of this.

All the more reason Vlad needs to get full Unconditional Surrender from the corrupted Zelensky regime. The US pet Nazis need to be dealt with harshly. Shame, shame on the corrupted Biden administration for backing Neo- Nazis.

The world would be better off if the Russian troops just took their WWII tanks and trucks, turned around, and took them back to whatever museum they got them from.

Love your tears, and those of the dumb foreigner OP.

Your bleatings are literally mood-enhancing. So is watching Ukraine turn into a rump state.

Links please? Russia of today is not Soviet Russia. They are doing very well dealing with all the western wonder weapons, pikes and piles of destroyed Leopards, MRAPS, Bradley’s, M113, Humvees…for all the world to see.

I await the same fate of our M1’s due to arrive In September.

I am not your intern.

Doing research these days is not that difficult. When you see clearly written propaganda, you should always check the opposition research. One is usually written to the sound of martial music. The other often has footnotes and sources.

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