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While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky'due south Jewish heritage to abnegate accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters.
Past Alexander RUBINSTEIN and Max BLUMENTHAL
Back in Oct 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 upwardly 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 and so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by and so-German Foreign Government minister Walter Steinmeier which called for elections in the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
In a face-to-face confrontation with militants from the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who had launched a campaign to sabotage the peace initiative called "No to Capitulation," Zelensky encountered a wall of obstinacy.
With appeals for disengagement from the frontlines firmly rejected, Zelensky melted down on camera. "I'm the president of this country. I'm 41 years old. I'yard not a loser. I came to you and told you: remove the weapons," Zelensky implored the fighters.
President of Ukraine Zelensky has visited disengaging area in Zolote today https://t.co/scFZLt45C2 pic.twitter.com/JlD1cWPQ39
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) October 26, 2019
In one case video of the stormy confrontation spread beyond Ukrainian social media channels, Zelensky became the target of an angry backlash.
Andriy Biletsky, the proudly fascist Azov Battalion leader who once pledged to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led Untermenschen", vowed to bring thousands of fighters to Zolote if Zelensky pressed any further. Meanwhile, a parliamentarian from the party of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko openly fantasized near Zelensky beingness blown to bits by a militant's grenade.
Though Zelensky accomplished a minor disengagement, the neo-Nazi paramilitaries escalated their "No Capitulation" campaign. And inside months, fighting began to estrus up again in Zolote, sparking a new wheel of violations of the Minsk Agreement.
By this point, Azov had been formally incorporated into the Ukrainian armed services and its street vigilante fly, known as the National Corps, was deployed beyond the country under the lookout of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, and aslope the National Constabulary. In December 2021, Zelensky would be seen delivering a "Hero of Ukraine" award to a leader of the fascistic Right Sector in a ceremony in Ukraine'south parliament.
A full-calibration disharmonize with Russia was approaching, and the distance betwixt Zelensky and the extremist paramilitaries was endmost fast.
This February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukrainian territory on a stated mission to "demilitarize and denazify" the land, United states media embarked on a mission of its own: to deny the power of neo-Nazi paramilitaries over the country's military and political sphere. As the US government-funded National Public Radio insisted, "Putin's language [about denazification] is offensive and factually wrong."
In its bid to deflect from the influence of Nazism in contemporary Ukraine, US media has found its most effective PR tool in the figure of Zelensky, a former Goggle box star and comedian from a Jewish background. It is a role the actor-turned-politician has eagerly causeless.
Simply every bit we will see, Zelensky has not simply ceded ground to the neo-Nazis in his midst, he has entrusted them with a forepart line role in his country's war against pro-Russian and Russian forces.
The president'south Jewishness as Western media PR device
Hours before President Putin'southward February 24 speech declaring denazification as the goal of Russian operations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "asked how a people who lost 8 million of its citizens fighting Nazis could support Nazism," according to the BBC.
Raised in a non-religious Jewish family in the Soviet Union during the 1980's, Zelensky has downplayed his heritage in the past. "The fact that I am Jewish barely makes twenty in my long list of faults," he joked during a 2019 interview in which he declined to go into further item most his religious background.
Today, as Russian troops bear down on cities like Mariupol, which is effectively under the control of the Azov Battalion, Zelensky is no longer aback to broadcast his Jewishness. "How could I exist a Nazi?" he wondered aloud during a public address. For a US media engaged in an all-out information war against Russian federation, the president's Jewish background has become an essential public relations tool.
Watch left & right wing factions of MSM unite to declare any allegations of Nazism in Ukraine to be Russian fake news because President Zelensky is Jewish. Featuring Senators Marsha Blackburn & Mark Warner, former CIA spy Dan Hoffman & "Ukraine Whistleblower" Alexander Vindman motion picture.twitter.com/vruyDUoWxv
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) February 28, 2022
A few examples of the US media's deployment of Zelensky as a shield against allegations of rampant Nazism in Ukraine are below (see mash-up in a higher place for video):
- PBS NewsHour noted Putin's comments on denazification with a qualifier: "even though President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and his great uncles died in the Holocaust."
- On Trick & Friends, former CIA officeholder Dan Hoffman declared that "it's the summit of hypocrisy to call the Ukrainian nation to denazify — their president is Jewish after all."
- On MSNBC, Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner said Putin'southward "terminology, outrageous and obnoxious every bit it is — 'denazify' where you've got frankly a Jewish president in Mr. Zelensky. This guy [Putin] is on his own kind of personal jihad to restore greater Russian federation."
- Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn said on Flim-flam Business concern she'south "been impressed with President Zelensky and how he has stood up. And for Putin to go out there and say 'we're going to denazify' and Zelensky is Jewish."
- In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Gen. John Allen denounced Putin's employ of the term, "de-Nazify" while the newsman and erstwhile Israel lobbyist shook his caput in cloy. In a separate interview with Blitzer, the so-called "Ukraine whistleblower" and Ukraine-built-in Alexander Vindman grumbled that the claim is "patently cool, there's really no merit… you lot pointed out that Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish… the Jewish community [is] embraced. It'due south cardinal to the country and there is nothing to this Nazi narrative, this fascist narrative. It'southward fabricated equally a pretext."
Behind the corporate media spin lies the complex and increasingly close relationship Zelensky'due south assistants has enjoyed with the neo-Nazi forces invested with key military and political posts past the Ukrainian state, and the ability these open fascists take enjoyed since Washington installed a Western-aligned regime through a coup in 2014.
In fact, Zelensky'due south top financial backer, the Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, has been a key benefactor of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and other extremists militias.
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 of measurement fighting pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbass region.
With Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel insignia on the uniforms of its fighters, who take been photographed with Nazi SS symbols on their helmets, Azov "is known for its association with neo-Nazi credo…[and] is believed to have participated in preparation and radicalizing US-based white supremacy organizations," according to an FBI indictment of several United states white nationalists that traveled to Kiev to train with Azov.
Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian energy baron of Jewish heritage, has been a pinnacle funder of Azov since information technology was formed in 2014. He has as well bankrolled private militias like the Dnipro and Aidar Battalions, and has deployed them every bit a personal thug squad to protect his financial interests.
In 2019, Kolomoisky emerged as the summit backer of Zelensky'south presidential bid. Though Zelensky made anti-corruption the signature issue of his entrada, the Pandora Papers exposed him and members of his inner circumvolve stashing large payments from Kolomoisky in a shadowy web of offshore accounts.
When Zelensky took office in May 2019, the Azov Battalion maintained de facto control of the strategic southeastern port city of Mariupol and its surrounding villages. As Open up Democracy noted, "Azov has certainly established political control of the streets in Mariupol. To maintain this control, they have to react violently, even if not officially, to any public outcome which diverges sufficiently from their political calendar."
Attacks by Azov in Mariupol have included assaults on "feminists and liberals" marching on International Women's Mean solar day among other incidents.
In March 2019, members of the Azov Battalion's National Corps attacked the home of Viktor Medvedchuk, the leading opposition effigy in Ukraine, accusing him of treason for his friendly relations with Vladimir Putin, the godfather of Medvedchuk'due south daughter.
Zelensky'due south administration escalated the attack on Medvedchuk, shuttering several media outlets he controlled in February 2021 with the open approval of the US Country Section, and jailing the opposition leader for treason three months later. Zelensky justified his actions on the grounds that he needed to "fight against the danger of Russian assailment in the information arena."
Next, in August 2020, Azov's National Corps opened fire on a motorbus containing members of Medvedchuk'due south party, Patriots for Life, wounding several with rubber-coated steel bullets.
Breaking! A motorbus carrying supporters and members of #Ukraine'southward opposition party "Patriots For Life" was attacked by Ukrainian National Corps and Azov Battalion in the e of the country (Kharkov), unconfirmed reports that some of the passengers have been murdered. pic.twitter.com/O0hB2sqbRA
— The Eurasianist ☦️ (@Russ_Warrior) Baronial 27, 2020
Zelensky failed to rein in neo-Nazis, wound upward collaborating with them
Following his failed attempt to demobilize neo-Nazi militants in the boondocks of Zolote in October 2019, Zelensky chosen 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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During the Maidan "Revolution of Dignity" that ousted Ukraine'south elected president in 2014, C14 activists took over Kiev's city hall and plastered its walls with neo-Nazi insignia before taking shelter in the Canadian embassy.
Equally the former youth wing of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party, C14 appears to draw its name from the infamous 14 words of US neo-Nazi leader David Lane: "We must secure the beingness of our people and a future for white children."
By offering to carry out acts of spectacular violence on behalf of anyone willing to pay, the hooligans have fostered a cozy relationship with various governing bodies and powerful elites across Ukraine.
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As The Grayzone reported, C14 led raid to "purge" Romani from Kiev's railway station in collaboration with the Kiev police.
The C14 Nazi terror gang signed an agreement with the Kiev municipal authorities to patrol its streets. This footage taken just a few months subsequently in 2018 shows them carrying out a pogrom against a Romani camp. pic.twitter.com/9aAA86K8TQ
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) February 28, 2022
Not simply was this activity sanctioned past the Kiev city regime, the US government itself saw picayune problem with it, hosting Bondar at an official US authorities institution in Kiev where he bragged about the pogroms. C14 continued to receive country funding throughout 2018 for "national-patriotic education."
Karas has claimed that the Ukrainian Security Serves would "pass on" information regarding pro-separatist rallies "not only [to] us, but besides Azov, the Correct Sector then on."
"In general, deputies of all factions, the National Baby-sit, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Diplomacy work for us. You can joke like that," Karas said.
Throughout 2019, Zelensky and his assistants deepened their ties with ultra-nationalist elements across Ukraine.
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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 Government minister and deputy head of Zelensky's presidential part – appeared on stage at a neo-Nazi concert organized by C14 figure and accused murderer Andriy Medvedko.
Zelensky'due south Government 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 dedicated Ukrainian footballer Roman Zolzulya against Spanish fans taunting him as a "Nazi." Zolzulya had posed beside photos of the World War Two-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 "non merely a cool football role player just a true patriot."
In November 2021, one of Ukraine'southward most prominent ultra-nationalist militiamen, Dmytro Yarosh, announced that he had been appointed every bit an advisor to the Commander-in-Main of the Military machine of Ukraine. Yarosh is an avowed follower of the Nazi collaborator Bandera who led Right Sector from 2013 to 2015, vowing to pb the "de-Russification" of Ukraine.
A calendar month later, as war with Russia drew closer, Zelensky awarded Right Sector commander Dmytro Kotsyubaylo the "Hero of Ukraine" commendation. Known as "Da Vinci," Kosyubaylo keeps a pet wolf in his frontline base, and likes to joke to visiting reporters that his fighters "feed it the bones of Russian-speaking children."
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Ukrainian state-backed neo-Nazi leader flaunts influence on the eve of state of war with Russian federation
On February 5, 2022, only days before full-scale war with Russian federation erupted, Yevhen Karas of the neo-Nazi C14 delivered a stem-winding public address in Kiev intended to highlight the influence his organization and others similar it enjoyed over Ukrainian politics.
Sentry Yevhen Karas the leader of Ukraine'due south neo-Nazi terror gang C14's speech from Kiev earlier this month. Straight from the horses' mouth, he dispels the many narratives pushed by the left, the mainstream media and the State Section. motion picture.twitter.com/VWJqWPUGUp
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) February 27, 2022
"LGBT and foreign embassies say 'there were not many Nazis at Maidan, perchance nigh x percent of real ideological ones,'" Karas remarked. "If not for those 8 percentage [of neo-Nazis] the effectiveness [of the Maidan coup] would take dropped past ninety percent."
The 2014 Maidan "Revolution of Dignity" would have been a "gay parade" if not for the instrumental role of neo-Nazis, he proclaimed.
Karas went on to opine that the West armed Ukrainian ultra-nationalists because "we take fun killing." He too fantasized about the balkanization of Russia, declaring that it should be broken up into "five dissimilar" countries.
"If nosotros get killed…we died fighting a holy war"
When Russian forces entered Ukraine this February 24, encircling the Ukrainian military in the eastward and driving towards Kiev, President Zelensky announced a national mobilization that included the release of criminals from prison, amid them defendant murderers wanted in Russian federation. He also blessed the distribution of arms to average citizens, and their preparation past battle-hardened paramilitaries like the Azov Battalion.
With fighting underway, Azov'southward National Corps gathered hundreds of ordinary civilians, including grandmothers and children, to railroad train in public squares and warehouses from Kharviv to Kiev to Lviv.
Equally US media celebrated average Ukrainian citizens taking upwards artillery against Russian troops, the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion'due south National Corps published a propaganda video of its fighters training and passing out arms to residents of Kharkiv, transforming them into combatants. film.twitter.com/RVL1nyWkfw
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 1, 2022
On February 27, the official Twitter account of the National Guard of Ukraine posted video of "Azov Fighters" greasing their bullets with pig fat to humiliate Russian Muslim fighters from Chechnya.
Azov fighters of the National Baby-sit greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs👊
Бійці Азова Нацгвардії змастили кулі салом проти кадировських орків👊
Підписуйтесь на наш телеграм канал https://t.co/SBQltMr4bM picture show.twitter.com/A1ci7tZL8r
— НГУ (@ng_ukraine) February 27, 2022
A mean solar day afterward, the Azov Battalion's National Corps appear that the Azov Battalion's Kharkiv Regional Police would begin using the urban center's Regional State Administration building as a defense headquarters. Footage posted to Telegram the following twenty-four hours shows the Azov-occupied building being hit by a Russian airstrike.
Too authorizing the release of hardcore criminals to bring together the battle confronting Russia, Zelensky has ordered all males of fighting age to remain in the country. Azov militants have proceeded to enforce the policy past brutalizing civilians attempting to flee from the fighting around Mariupol.
According to one Greek resident in Mariupol recently interviewed past a Greek news station, "When you endeavour to leave you lot run the risk of running into a patrol of the Ukrainian fascists, the Azov Battalion," he said, adding "they would kill me and are responsible for everything."
Footage posted online appears to bear witness uniformed members of a fascist Ukrainian militia in Mariupol violently pulling fleeing residents out of their vehicles at gunpoint.
BREAKING 💥 Ukrainian NAZI are preventing people from leaving Mariupol and are shooting at them.
Residents of #Mariupol do not move around the city, Mariupol will shortly be liberated!#EndTheBandera#StopUkrainianNazism
#Ukraine #Russia #DPR #LPR #DNR #LPR #Donbass pic.twitter.com/AakZGyNxQx— Deus Abscondis (@Deus_Abscondis) February 26, 2022
Other video filmed at checkpoints around Mariupol showed Azov fighters shooting and killing civilians attempting to flee.
On March 1, Zelensky replaced the regional administrator of Odessa with Maksym Marchenko, a former commander of the farthermost right Aidar Battalion, which has been accused of an array of war crimes in the Donbass region.
Meanwhile, as a massive convoy of Russian armored vehicles bore down on Kiev, Yehven Karas of the neo-Nazi C14 posted a video on YouTube from inside a vehicle presumably transporting fighters.
"If we get killed, it's fucking great considering it means we died fighting a holy war," Karas exclaimed. "If we survive, information technology'south going to exist fifty-fifty fucking amend! That'southward why I don't run across a downside to this, but upside!"
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