Support of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine | St. Pete for Peace

Support of neo-Nazis in Ukraine

U.S. Support of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi

Western media has dismissed evidence of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine by citing President Zelensky’s Jewish heritage. But new footage published by Zelensky shows the leader openly collaborating with a fascist ideologue - Andriy Biltetsky, founder of the white supremacist Azov Battallion - who once pledged to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led [sub-humans].”

In spite of Biletsky’s rich Nazi pedigree, the video Zelensky published shows him sharing a moment with Azov's Biletsky who has described Jews as “our enemy,” or as the “real masters” of the oligarchs and craven politicians that have corrupted Ukraine.

Since 2013 the US has supported the Azov Battalion, the Right Sector, Svoboda and other neo-Nazi sympathizing elements of the Ukrainian government and armed forces who are fighting Russia today, and have been waging war against secessionists in the Donbass for almost 10 years.

"Ukrainian top commander [of the Azov Battalion], Col. Andriy Biletskiy, did not dispute his far-right ultraconservative leanings or the presence of some extremists in his units....Biletskiy...said in 2010 that Ukraine’s purpose was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [sub-humans],” according to local reports. His supporters called him “Bely Vozd” — “White Ruler.”"

- Washington Post April 2022

MEDIA COVERAGE

The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion

For seven years, Western institutions have warned about Ukraine’s Azov Movement, which began as a neo-Nazi paramilitary group in 2014 and became notorious for its worldwide recruitment of extremists.

Then came Russia’s invasion. Within months, Azov fighters were being feted in Congress and at Stanford University. MSNBC swooned over a Ukrainian soldier whose Twitter account overflowed with neo-Nazi images. Facebook made the stunning decision to allow posts praising the Azov Battalion, even though the company admitted that it was a hate group.

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History

Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.

WASHINGTON POST: Attacks inside Russia using U.S. military equipment -- responsible groups have some members who are known to be neo-Nazis or to harbor other extremist views.

Neo-Nazi Militia Used US Armored Vehicles in Attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region

A neo-Nazi militia launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine into Russia’s Belgorod region on Monday using US armored vehicles, Financial Times reported Tuesday.

Denis Nikitin said his fighters who attacked Belgorod were in possession of US armored vehicles. Nikitin is a well-known extremist who has ties to neo-Nazis across the world and has his own white nationalist clothing line.

POLITICO: US concerned about radicals traveling to Ukraine

Dept. of Homeland Security document: "Ukrainian nationalist groups including the Azo[v] Movement are actively recruiting racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists (RMVE-WS) to join various neo-Nazi volunteer battalions in the war against Russia”

THE ECONOMIC TIMES: Members of neo-Nazi Azov battalion surrender in Mariupol: Russian media

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

Kiev claimed that the Azov neo-Nazis and members of its regular forces had “prevented the implementation of the (alleged Russian) plan for the quick capture of (nearby) Zaporozhye, and did not allow access to the administrative border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.”

REUTERS: Factbox: Last defenders of Mariupol: what is Ukraine's Azov Regiment?

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

At the core of that last stand [at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol] has been the Azov Regiment whose fighters are lionised as heroes in Ukraine, but reviled by Putin's Kremlin as a band of Russia-hating neo-Nazis.

WASHINGTON POST: Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

"Ukrainian top commander, Col. Andriy Biletskiy, did not dispute his far-right ultraconservative leanings or the presence of some extremists in his units....Biletskiy...said in 2010 that Ukraine’s purpose was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races],” according to local reports. His supporters called him “Bely Vozd” — “White Ruler.”"

CNN: A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine's resistance. Its neo-Nazi links have given Putin ammunition

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

For the Kremlin, Exhibit A in this special mission is the far-right Azov movement, part of the military and political landscape in Ukraine for nearly a decade

THE GRAYZONE: US and NATO allies arm neo-Nazi units in Ukraine as foreign policy elites yearn for Afghan-style insurgency

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

Corporate US media and foreign policy hardliners want to create a new Afghanistan in the middle of Europe by flooding Ukraine with weapons. The arms industry is very pleased, according to The Grayzone

“The [Ukrainian] parliament also contains a number of far-right figures, including Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the Right Sector movement, and Andriy Biletsky, who leads the Azov battalion, a volunteer grouping known for its Nazi symbols and far-right ideology.” (The Guardian)

WASHINGTON POST: Neo-Nazis are exploiting Russia’s war in Ukraine for their own purposes

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

"Not since ISIS have we seen such a flurry of recruitment activity"

Western Neo-Nazis Respond to Azov’s Call to Arms

THE GRAYZONE: How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

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, according to The Grayzone

VICE NEWS: How a Far-Right Battalion Became a Part of Ukraine’s National Guard

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

The Azov Battalion is a militant ultranationalist movement with neo-Nazi roots that was officially incorporated into Ukraine’s National Guard in 2014. The U.S. government has described Azov’s political party, National Corps, as a “nationalist hate group”, according to Vice News

The Indepenent UK: Nationalists not extremists: Pravy Sektor deny radicalism claims and say they want to ‘serve’ Ukraine

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

Pravy Sektor was initially formed as a confederation of radical nationalist groups. Some of these, including one called White Hammer, were expelled. Others, like Patriot of Ukraine, the paramilitary wing of the country’s Social-National Assembly, left the group after it supposedly watered down its militancy.

Some of the more hardline former Pravy Sektor members have found a home in the Azov Battalion, which does little to hide its far-right credentials. At a recent training exercise for citizen volunteers in Kiev, its members wore uniforms with Nazi symbols like the Totenkopf (death’s head), the Sonnenrad (black sun), and the Wolfsangel, or wolf’s trap.

“The [Ukrainian] parliament also contains a number of far-right figures, including Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the Right Sector movement, and Andriy Biletsky, who leads the Azov battalion, a volunteer grouping known for its Nazi symbols and far-right ideology.” (The Guardian)

NBC NEWS: Neo-Nazi sympathizers among Ukrainian fighters

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

"Azov fighters were accused of torture and war crimes, and their ranks are populated by neo-Nazi sympathizers."

THE GRAYZONE: US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus, according to The Grayzone

YAHOO NEWS: The CIA Has Been Training Ukrainian Paramilitaries to ‘Kill Russians’

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

The CIA has been overseeing a secret training program for Ukrainian special operations forces and intelligence operatives since 2015, Yahoo News reported

TIME MAGAZINE: Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

“Azov has been recruiting, radicalizing, and training American citizens for years,” the letter said. Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American white supremacists are “actually traveling overseas to train.”

Slide title

Write your caption here

Button

CNN: Rein in Ukraine's neo-fascists

"Far-right, anti-Semitic, anti-Russian and openly fascist groups have existed and do exist as a blight on modern Ukraine"

St. Pete for Peace articles & videos on how and why the U.S. has supported neo-Nazis in Ukraine since 2013

Brzezinski Mapped Out the Battle for Ukraine in 1997

READ

Why is the U.S. supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine?

WATCH

The U.S. supports anti-Semites in Ukraine

Why isn't Israel upset?

READ

The Israel Lobby Protects neo-Nazis in Ukraine

WATCH

US support of violent neo-Nazis in Ukraine: Video Compilation

WATCH

US to send troops to Ukraine

Expanding its military support of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

READ

Victoria Nuland on siding with neo-Nazis in Ukraine

WATCH

Americans Are Getting Played on Ukraine

READ

Heads Up. The US is Losing in Ukraine

READ

Protest at AIPAC

RECAP & PHOTOS

The Irony of Clinton Comparing Putin to Hitler

READ

Ukraine Regime Bans Officials From Criticizing Government

READ

Top 5 Dirty Tricks Played on Russia

WATCH

Look Who the US is Siding with in Ukraine, Egypt & Syria

READ

2014: The Ukraine Crisis – What You’re Not Being Told

from Stormcloudsgathering.com

On February 20th of 2014 the world was shocked by video footage of snipers firing on protesters in Kiev Ukraine. Twenty one people were murdered, and it was widely assumed that President Victor Yanukovich and his supporters were behind the attacks. However a phone conversation between EU foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton and Estonia’s foreign minister Urmas Paet leaked to the public on March 5th reveals that the snipers in were actually from the new coalition government, and that Western diplomats knew this and covered it up:

For some reason the U.S. media didn’t think that little detail was worth covering.

But wait… I thought the opposition were peaceful activists who just wanted a chance to join the European Union.

Well yeah, that’s the official narrative that the U.S. media outlets are peddling, but real story is much more ominous. It turns out that the most powerful and influential contingent in the opposition is a coalition of literal fascists and Neo-Nazis, and they aren’t peaceful. In fact they are extremely brutal.

Below are two pictures of Victoria Nuland from the U.S. State Department meeting with Oleh Tyahnybok. Below is a picture of Senator John McCain sharing a stage with Tyahnybok. They look friendly don’t they?

Why would the U.S. government work with Neo-Nazis?

Because they thought they could control the situation. They thought they could install their puppets behind the scenes and manipulate the situation in their favor.

This isn’t just speculation. That same Victoria Nulland who met with Svoboda in February was caught in another leaked phone call discussing who would they would put in power.

The mainstream media tried to draw your attention away from the important part of this conversation by focusing on the fact that she used a cuss word when referring to the E.U.

The U.S. government thought they could control this beast. But they were wrong. Svoboda and the Right Sektor are not toys to be played with. These groups are armed, they’re forceful, and they view this crisis as an opportunity to reshape Ukraine in their own image.

Apparently the U.S. government has been a little slow to catch on to the fact that their hand has been exposed. In March a senior U.S. official told Reuters that “Since entering the Ukrainian Parliament in October 2012, the Svoboda leadership has been working to take their party in a more moderate direction and to become a modern, European mainstream political party, The leadership has been much more vigilant about expelling or otherwise punishing individual members who engage in xenophobic behavior or rhetoric.”

So it’s ok to use known Neo-Nazi groups to topple a government as long as their leaders keep their people from saying anything stupid in front of cameras for a few months? The reality of the matter is that as ridiculous as this assertion makes Washington look, they are trapped. They can’t deny that Svoboda and the Right Sektor are running the coalition government when Svoboda holds five senior posts including the deputy prime minister position and the Right Sektor’s Dmytro Yarosh is now the country’s Deputy Secretary of National Security.

But what about that dramatic video “I am a Ukrainian” that went viral as this crisis was unfolding. It was so compelling, so heart wrenching. Yeah, but who made it? Did you notice the link in the description? Awhispertoaroar… who are these people? Oh look, a link in the description. Let’s click it. They have a website and a behind the scenes section. Oh it list the film makers. Who’s this here? Larry Diamond, inspiration and executive producer. He’s also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Endowment for Democracy and an advisor for the U.S. State Department. You know the funny thing about the National Endowment for Regime Change Democracy is that even though they call themselves an NGO they get virtually all of it’s money from the U.S. federal government. You can verify this by downloading their annual financial disclosures. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the NED has been pouring massive amounts of money into Ukraine to “strengthen democracy and civil society”?

That sound nice doesn’t it? Democracy… civil society. Of course by now you’ve realized that when they talk about spreading democracy what they really mean is regime change, and they are willing to work with the most despicable elements when it’s expedient.

It’s exactly the same game they played in Syria. The U.S. government funded known extremists, literal terrorist organizations who have been documented massacring whole towns. They gave them money, they gave them weapons, and even after those extremists used sarin gas on thousands of civilians and got caught by the U.N., Washington still covered for them. Even to this day they are still funding those murderers, they are still training them, and they are still sending them weapons. There’s a word for this kind of activity: state backed terrorism.

But the situation in Ukraine didn’t unfold as planned. The parliament of Crimea, in the South of Ukraine voted to secede, and they are putting the decision up for a public referendum. The U.S. claims that this referendum is “unconstitutional” and says they won’t recognize Crimea’s decision as legitimate regardless of the outcome. So a foreign backed Neo-Nazi coup is constitutional, but a declaration of independence placed to a general vote is not? Seriously? That’s the best you guys can do? Who writes these scripts?

Site navigation

Home | Foreign Policy News About | Film series | Actions & photos | Articles & videos | Email update | YouTube | OccupyArrests.com | Peace Music Jukebox | Contact

St. Pete for Peace © 2024

Share by: