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World News See other World News Articles Title: We are lying about Ukraine. Soros' Foundation, NED and other fake NGOs are Brown Shirts and SS We are lying about Ukraine. Soros' Foundation, NED and other fake NGOs are Brown Shirts and SS - Lara Logan (1) Senator Richard H. Black says, "We do not care how many Ukrainians die" (2) Soros' Foundation, NED and other fake NGOs are Brown Shirts and SS - Lara Logan journalist's warning - We are lying about Ukraine on an epic scale (4) The Azov Battalion | The neo-Nazis of Ukraine (5) Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele (6) Western Ukraine was a headquarters of the Nazi SS - Lara Logan (7) Robert Parry: Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine's “regime change” in 2014, & Neo-Nazi takeover (8) Robert Parry: NYT didn't tell its readers that Ukraine “heroes” were Nazis, some even wearing Swastikas and SS symbols (1) Senator Richard H. Black says, "We do not care how many Ukrainians die" From: Kirill Borisovich Glasse Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:10:22 +0400 Subject: senator Black (Schwarz) tells it like it is https://youtu.be/GXOWZnRCc20 Senator Richard H. Black - The US and NATO don't care how many Ukrainians die 28 Jun 2022 Djuki San Russia Ukraine War: "We don't care! The United States and NATO, we do not care how many Ukrainians die. Not civilians, not women, not children, not soldiers. We do not care. It's become a great football game. You know, we've got our team. They've got their team, rah rah. We want to get the biggest score and run it up. And, you know, we don't care how many how many of our players get crippled on the playing field, as long as we win." == (2) We are lying about Ukraine. Soros' Foundation, NED and other fake NGOs are Brown Shirts and SS - Lara Logan Lara Logan is a veteran reporter who has covered wars for 35 years. She pulls no punches. - Peter M. She's a fighter! Watch the video, it's less than 10 minutes, at https://air.tv/?v=s7uh2HB1QI64xBIwgVG6SQ On Soros' OSF & NED: 4:50 "because the Open Foundation Societies and the National Endowment for Democracy and all these other fake NGOs that are nothing more than brown shirts and SS rolled into one were running their radical policy through the United States embassy, through USAID, using our tax dollars to slit our own throats. Now they're covering their tracks in Ukraine, not just hiding all the evidence of John Kerry's son, Biden's son, Nancy Pelosi's son, Mitt Romney's son, by the way, who is disgusting as the rest of them” 6:20 For crying in a bucket, wake up, people! Yes, there is real suffering in Ukraine, there's a real war going on, just as there were real issues that were being protested in the wake of George Floyd's death, but they're being exploited, by evil, horrible people who want to rule over all of us and enslave us. And if you don't think that's true, you think that's a conspiracy theory, I got no time for you. (3) American journalist's warning - We are lying about Ukraine on an epic scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE 343,999 views 19 Mar 2022 There is so much misinformation about Ukraine that we have never seen anything like it, we are lying on an epic scale, warned the famous American journalist Lara Logan, who has been reporting on wars for 35 years, on the TV channel "Real America's Voice ". (4) The Azov Battalion | The neo-Nazis of Ukraine https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/the-azov-battalion-the-neo-nazis-of-ukraine/article65239935.ece The Azov Battalion | The neo-Nazis of Ukraine G. Sampath MARCH 20, 2022 09:17 UPDATED: MARCH 20, 2022 22:08 The far-right militia, once banned by the U.S., is part of Ukraine's National Guard When Russia annexed Crimea in February 2014, it faced no military resistance. Ukraine did not have an adequate number of combat-ready troops to mount a defence. Subsequently, when Russia-backed separatists took over government buildings in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region as a prelude to full-fledged insurgency, the Ukrainian military again proved unable to quell the rebellion. It was against this background that the Azov Battalion was formed in May 2014. The Azov began as a military infantry unit made up of civilian volunteers drawn from far-right, neo-Nazi groups that were active in Ukraine, such as the Patriot of Ukraine gang and the Social National Assembly (SNA). With its highly motivated band of fighters, the Azov unit recaptured the strategic port city of Mariupol from the separatists. Following this crucial military triumph — which had eluded the official forces of Kyiv — the Azov unit was integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine in November 2014. In 2016, the Azov set up its political wing, the National Corps Party, under the leadership of Andriy Biletsky, an ultra-Nationalist who was a Member of Parliament from 2014 to 2019 and has said on record it is Ukraine's mission to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior humans]”. The military uniforms of the Azov feature Nazi insignia and its fighters have been photographed with tattoos of Nazi symbols such as the swastika. On the eve of the launch of National Corps, its members took out a Nazi-style raised-fist, torch-lit march through the streets of Kyiv. Members of the Azov militia also do street patrols where, in the name of enforcing what it calls 'Ukrainian order', they have been known to attack Roma and other ethnic minorities, and LBGT events. The Ukrainian National Guard has released videos of Azov fighters greasing bullets with pig fat, apparently for use against the Muslim Chechens fighting among the Russian forces. Rights violations Different human rights bodies, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Amnesty International, have accused Azov fighters, along with those form other volunteer battalions, of human rights violations, including torture, kidnappings, and extra-judicial executions. Over the years, the U.S. stance on the Azov has swung between proscription (driven by acknowledgement of its neo-Nazi politics) and sly collaboration (on the grounds of geopolitical pragmatism). In 2015, the U.S Congress passed a resolution stating that military aid for Ukraine cannot be used for funding, arming or training the Azov Battalion. But in 2016, the ban was rolled back, reportedly under Pentagon pressure. Since then, there have been unsuccessful efforts by Congress members — one of whom has described it as a “neo-Nazi paramilitary militia” — to designate the Azov as a 'Foreign Terrorist Organisation'. For all that, Azov social media channels are rife with videos of militia members training with American-made weapons. Similar contradictions were also on display, for instance, in the way Facebook has reacted to the Azov. In 2016, it designated the Azov battalion a “dangerous organisation”. In 2019, it placed the Azov in the same category as the Islamic State (IS) and banned it. But after the Russian invasion on February 24, Facebook reversed the ban, allowing expressions of praise for the Azov. Significantly, the Azov has always had a pan-Ukrainian dimension, with documented links to American white supremacist groups such as the Rise Above Movement (RAM). It has volunteer fighters from different parts of Europe. It regularly conducts military training camps for civilians, including children, and has tried to build a 'cool' sub-culture around nationalism, militarism and physical sports – its mixed martial arts tournaments are quite popular. Its spokespersons have reiterated their intent to eventually 'take over' Kyiv and have said Ukraine needs a dictator to set things right. When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” to carry out a “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine, he appeared to be referring to the neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov, who – with the blessings of the Ukrainian state – have been at the forefront of Kyiv's military campaign against the Russia-backed separatist groups. Until the Russian invasion, many in the Ukrainian mainstream viewed the rise of the Azov with concern. After all, they were a law onto themselves and did not defer to the state — while their military units could operate independent of the Ukrainian chain of command, their street patrol units did not answer to the police, and their defiance of the law went unpunished. But the Russian invasion — belying its stated aim of denazification — may well end up laundering the Azov's neo-Nazi baggage, as seen with Facebook's U-turn, and strengthen the far-right forces, not just in Ukraine but beyond as well, which isn't good news for Europe's liberal democratic order. (5) Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele https://www.thewrap.com/lara-logan-ukraine-nazi-comments-endorsed-kremlin/ Russian Officials Endorse Lara Logan's Comments Linking Ukrainian Soldiers to Nazis and Occultism The disgraced Fox Nation host previously said she did not ”buy“ the fact that the Russian-led invasion has created a humanitarian crisis Natalie Oganesyan | March 21, 2022 @ 6:15 PM Kremlin-affiliated officials on Twitter endorsed war correspondent Lara Logan's comments after she linked Ukrainian battalions to Nazis and Third-Reich occultism, and dismissed Russia's invasion as having caused a humanitarian crisis in the former Soviet republic. Last week, the former Fox Nation host — who was ghosted by the organization after she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor known as the “Angel of Death” — lamented the amount of misinformation from the front lines in an interview with the far-right platform Real America's Voice. “I don't buy it for a second, and I'll be honest with you,” she said. “I really think that there's so much misinformation. We've never really seen anything like it. I mean, I've been covering wars now for 35 years.” She added, “There's a long history of the United States and our intelligence agencies funding and arming Nazis in Ukraine.” Logan continued to point out that there are photographs available online depicting Ukrainian soldiers holding up the NATO flag alongside Nazi emblems like the swastika and black sun. Snippets of her conversation were widely spread by the verified accounts of Russian officials, like Russia's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Alexander Alimov. The official account for Russia's Council of Europe — whose rights of representation were recently suspended — also tweeted the conversation. Emmy Award winner ??journalist Lara Logan: Western MSMs deliberately turn a blind eye to the facts of manifestations of Nazism in ??. 'You can find pictures of the Azov battalion, funded by US & NATO, online holding up the NATO flag and swastika'. Source: https://t.co/5i96Oje1p5 pic.twitter.com/vICoGWBuuB — Alexander Alimov (@A__Alimov) March 19, 2022 “The Azov battalion, which is founded by the United States and NATO has been killing civilians in eastern Ukraine” – News and Documentary Emmy Award-wining journalist Lara Logan spoke out about Ukraine, Nazism and the Western media. pic.twitter.com/m6LODHmFkF — RussianMissionCoE (@CoE_Russia) March 20, 2022 According to reporting from Newsweek, “far-right and even neo-Nazi elements” are present within some Ukrainian military forces, but analysts have also condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's “propaganda” that the invasion is a “special military operation” attempt to “de-Nazify” the country. (6) Western Ukraine was a headquarters of the Nazi SS - Lara Logan https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/03/21/lara-logan-goes-off-in-epic-rant-on-ukraine-citing-fake-ngos-vindman-hunter-biden-romneys-son-1215390/ Lara Logan goes off in epic rant on Ukraine, citing 'fake NGOs,' Vindman, Hunter Biden, Romney's son March 21, 2022 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | Journalist Lara Logan appeared on the Cowboy Logic podcast and proceeded in an epic rant to expose Ukrainian connections involving those such as Sen. Mitt Romney's son, retired Colonel Alexander Vindman, the country's alleged ties to the occult, and its purported history involving the Nazis. The wild ride highlighted her brutally honest and frank opinions concerning Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. She didn't hold back and made one controversial statement after another, tearing into globalists and politicians alike during her rant. Logan began by saying that “no one wants the people of Ukraine to suffer.” Having said that, she then got to the meat of her allegations charging that there are those here and abroad that want a bigger war and don't want de-escalation of the conflict. “Sure, there's disinformation on both sides, no doubt. The Russians are good at it and so are we. However, there are certain things here that are true and we need to ask more questions about them. For example, when Putin says he's going to rid the Ukrainian military of its Nazis and we all jump up and down and say, 'Oh! My gosh! That's not true because look at all the hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.' Well, absolutely there were hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. And you know what? They weren't just killed by Germans. A lot of them were killed by Ukrainians because western Ukraine backed the Nazis and was a headquarters of the Nazi SS,” Logan stated. “And when you see that black sun of the occult on uniforms of Ukrainian soldiers… and by the way, not just one battalion, not just a handful of soldiers… look at the pictures of female Ukrainian soldiers being lionized and you know, sort of worshipped by the US media, right? They've got that black sign of the occult. Now, why is that significant? Well, that was another emblem of the SS, wasn't it? Because there was an occult dimension to the SS that we again don't like to talk about,” she continued. “And why is that significant? Well, go to the Azov Battalion in the Ukrainian military that is funded by the United States and NATO. Not only do they have the black occult as the background of their logo, but they have the sideways lightning symbol of the SS,” she pointed out, noting that it is foundational to who the unit is. She also said to just imagine how that would be viewed if one unit in the US military used symbols of the Nazi SS. “I encourage everybody to look at the work of a journalist, an American journalist in Ukraine who has been there for years and years and years and has done extraordinary work trying to uncover how Ukraine is at the center of this cult of globalists. How it is a center of money laundering for the oligarchs and their allies in the United States. How it is at the center of Russia collusion and the whole false narrative. How it was amazingly a Ukrainian dossier, right, that put Paul Manafort behind bars…,” she railed. Logan continued to point out Ukraine's history while taking a smack at retired Colonel Alexander Vindman, whom she called “moron” and said he was “obviously a spy.” She mocked his staged history endlessly and thoroughly. Then she astutely asked, “Where is counterintelligence?” and said “There's a reason that man was escorted from the White House at the end of that theatrical trial,” referring to the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. She called George Soros' Open Foundation Societies and “all these other fake NGOs that are nothing more than brown shirts and SS rolled into one” and who “were running their radical policy through the United States embassy, through USAID, using our tax dollars to slit our own throats.” “Now they're covering their tracks in Ukraine, not just hiding all the evidence of John Kerry's son, Biden's son, Nancy Pelosi's son, Mitt Romney's son… by the way, who is disgusting as the rest of them,” she raged. Logan spoke of the bio labs there, some of which were leftover from the Russians. She pointed out that the whole truth of that has not been aired either. List of Ukraine Biolabs removed by US Embassy – previously disclosed the locations/details of these labs in a series of PDF files online. On Feb 26 2022 the official embassy website shut down the links to all 15 bioweapon labs.https://t.co/Eqr0xSeL5Ghttps://t.co/JX5Butp7W3 https://t.co/gp6CHwqvBA — Lara Logan (@laralogan) March 11, 2022 She spoke of no one trying to de-escalate the conflict and then called Zelenskyy a “moron,” claiming he was “selected” while prancing in stilettos and black leather pants on “Dancing with the Stars.” The journalist concluded by telling people to wake up. That there is real suffering and a real war going on but there is also a lot of propaganda out there coming from all sides. “…they're being exploited by evil, horrible people who want to rule over all of us and enslave us. And if you don't think that's true, you think that's a conspiracy theory, I got no time for you,” she concluded. (7) Robert Parry: Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine's “regime change” in 2014, & Neo-Nazi takeover https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/ The Mess that Nuland Made July 13, 2015 Exclusive: Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine's “regime change” in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, it's hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration's Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what you might call “the mess that Victoria Nuland made.” Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasn't really a coup but a victory for “democracy.” {photo} Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders. To sell this latest neocon-driven “regime change” to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the U.S.-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brown shirts. So, for nearly a year and a half, the West's mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new regime in Kiev was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without ethnic Russians. Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed “Russian propaganda” and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a “stooge of Moscow.” It wasn't until July 7 that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. The Times also reported that these far-right forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists have been called “brothers” of the hyper-brutal Islamic State. Though the Times sought to spin this remarkable military alliance neo-Nazi militias and Islamic jihadists as a positive, the reality had to be jarring for readers who had bought into the Western propaganda about noble “pro-democracy” forces resisting evil “Russian aggression.” Perhaps the Times sensed that it could no longer keep the lid on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Right Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have been warning the civilian government in Kiev that they might turn on it and create a new order more to their liking. Clashes in the West Then, on Saturday, violent clashes broke out in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo, allegedly over the control of cigarette-smuggling routes. Right Sektor paramilitaries sprayed police officers with bullets from a belt-fed machinegun, and police backed by Ukrainian government troops returned fire. Several deaths and multiple injuries were reported. Tensions escalated on Monday with President Petro Poroshenko ordering national security forces to disarm “armed cells” of political movements. Meanwhile, the Right Sektor dispatched reinforcements to the area while other militiamen converged on the capital of Kiev. While President Poroshenko and Right Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest flare-up of hostilities, they may be only postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.S.-backed authorities in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded last year's coup and have been at the front lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. The Ukrainian right-wing extremists feel they have carried the heaviest burden in the war against the ethnic Russians and resent the politicians living in the relative safety and comfort of Kiev. In March, Poroshenko also fired thuggish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky as governor of the southeastern province of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kolomoisky had been the primary benefactor of the Right Sektor militias. So, as has become apparent across Europe and even in Washington, the Ukraine crisis is spinning out of control, making the State Department's preferred narrative of the conflict that it's all Russian President Vladimir Putin's fault harder and harder to sell. How Ukraine is supposed to pull itself out of what looks like a death spiral a possible two-front war in the east and the west along with a crashing economy is hard to comprehend. The European Union, confronting budgetary crises over Greece and other EU members, has little money or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos. America's neocons at The Washington Post and elsewhere still rant about the need for the Obama administration to sink more billions upon billions of dollars into post-coup Ukraine because it “shares our values.” But that argument, too, is collapsing as Americans see the heart of a racist nationalism beating inside Ukraine's new order. Another Neocon 'Regime Change' Much of what has happened, of course, was predictable and indeed was predicted, but neocon Nuland couldn't resist the temptation to pull off a “regime change” that she could call her own. Her husband (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for “regime change” in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush's invasion. As with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his fellow neocons thought they could engineer an easy invasion of Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein and install some hand-picked client in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi was to be “the guy.” But they failed to take into account the harsh realities of Iraq, such as the fissures between Sunnis and Shiites, exposed by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation. In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the chance to poke Putin in the eye by encouraging violent protests to overthrow Russia-friendly President Yanukovych and put in place a new regime hostile to Moscow. Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and an important interim step toward toppling Putin, who “may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.” For her part, Nuland passed out cookies to anti-Yanukovych demonstrators at the Maidan square, reminded Ukrainian business leaders that the U.S. had invested $5 billion in their “European aspirations,” declared “fuck the EU” for its less aggressive approach, and discussed with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should be. “Yats is the guy,” she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Nuland saw her big chance on Feb. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper apparently firing from a building controlled by the Right Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crisis. On Feb. 21, in a desperate bid to avert more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed plan in which he accepted reduced powers and called for early elections so he could be voted out of office. But that wasn't enough for the anti-Yanukovych forces who led by Right Sektor and neo-Nazi militias overran government buildings on Feb. 22, forcing Yanukovych and many of his officials to flee for their lives. With armed thugs patrolling the corridors of power, the final path to “regime change” was clear. Instead of trying to salvage the Feb. 21 agreement, Nuland and European officials arranged for an unconstitutional procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and declared the new regime “legitimate.” Nuland's “guy” Yatsenyuk became prime minister. While Nuland and her neocon cohorts celebrated, their “regime change” prompted an obvious reaction from Putin, who recognized the strategic threat that this hostile new regime posed to the historic Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. On Feb. 23, he began to take steps to protect those Russian interests. Ethnic Hatreds What the coup also did was revive long pent-up antagonisms between the ethnic Ukrainians in the west, including elements that had supported Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War Two, and ethnic Russians in the south and east who feared the anti-Russian sentiments emanating from Kiev. First, in Crimea and then in the so-called Donbas region, these ethnic Russians, who had been Yanukovych's political base, resisted what they viewed as the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a move that Russia accepted in Crimea but resisted with the Donbas. However, when the Kiev regime announced an “anti-terrorism operation” against the Donbas and dispatched neo-Nazi and other extremist militias to be the tip of the spear, Moscow began quietly assisting the embattled ethnic Russian rebels, a move that Nuland, the Obama administration and the mainstream news media called “Russian aggression.” Amid the Western hysteria over Russia's supposedly “imperial designs” and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold War against Russia, reflected now in new U.S. strategic planning that could cost the U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars and risk a possible nuclear confrontation. Yet, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to appreciate the practical on-the-ground realities, much as her husband and other neocons did in Iraq. While Nuland got her hand-picked client Yatsenyuk installed and he did oversee a U.S.-demanded “neo-liberal” economic plan slashing pensions, heating assistance and other social programs the chaos that her “regime change” unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial black hole. With few prospects for a clear-cut victory over the ethnic Russian resistance in the east and with the neo-Nazi/Islamist militias increasingly restless over the stalemate the chances to restore any meaningful sense of order in the country appear remote. Unemployment is soaring and the government is essentially bankrupt. The last best hope for some stability may have been the Minsk-2 agreement in February 2015, calling for a federalized system to give the Donbas more autonomy, but Nuland's Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the deal in March by inserting a poison pill that essentially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels first surrender. Now, the Ukraine chaos threatens to spiral even further out of control with the neo-Nazis and other right-wing militias supplied with a bounty of weapons to kill ethnic Russians in the east turning on the political leadership in Kiev. In other words, the neocons have struck again, dreaming up a “regime change” scheme that ignored practical realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. Then, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons just sought out someone else to blame. Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new “star” in U.S. foreign policy, will be fired for her dangerous incompetence, just as most neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain “respected” experts employed by major think tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.S. government. (8) Robert Parry: NYT didn't tell its readers that Ukraine “heroes” were Nazis, some even wearing Swastikas and SS symbols visit the link to see trooops flying the Wolfsangel symbol: https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/robert-parry-when-us-house-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis/ ROBERT PARRY (2015): When US House Saw Ukraine's Neo-Nazis The U.S. government and media think Nazis in Ukraine are a myth. It wasn't always the case, as Robert Parry reported in 2015. {photo} The neo-Nazi Wolfsangel symbol on a banner in Ukraine. US House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine Exclusive: The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people: that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Special to Consortium News June 12, 2015 Last February, when ethnic Russian rebels were closing in on the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, The New York Times rhapsodically described the heroes defending the city and indeed Western civilization the courageous Azov battalion facing down barbarians at the gate. What the Times didn't tell its readers was that these “heroes” were Nazis, some of them even wearing Swastikas and SS symbols. The long Times article by Rick Lyman fit with the sorry performance of America's “paper of record” as it has descended into outright propaganda hiding the dark side of the post-coup regime in Kiev. But what makes Lyman's sadly typical story noteworthy today is that the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has just voted unanimously to bar U.S. assistance going to the Azov Battalion because of its Nazi ties. When even the hawkish House of Representatives can't stomach these Nazi storm troopers who have served as Kiev's tip of the spear against the ethnic Russian population of eastern Ukraine, what does that say about the honesty and integrity of The New York Times when it finds these same Nazis so admirable? And it wasn't like the Times didn't have space to mention the Nazi taint. The article provided much color and detail quoting an Azov leader prominently but just couldn't find room to mention the inconvenient truth about how these Nazis had played a key role in the ongoing civil war on the U.S. side. The Times simply referred to Azov as a “volunteer unit.” Yet, on June 10, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bipartisan amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act from Reps. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, and Ted Yoho, R-Florida that would block U.S. training of the Azov battalion and would prevent transfer of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to fighters in Iraq and Ukraine. “I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, along with my measures to keep the dangerous and easily trafficked MANPADs out of these unstable regions,” said Conyers on Thursday. He described Ukraine's Azov Battalion as a 1,000-man volunteer militia of the Ukrainian National Guard that Foreign Policy magazine has characterized as “openly neo-Nazi” and “fascist.” And Azov is not some obscure force. Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who oversees Ukraine's armed militias, announced that Azov troops would be among the first units to be trained by the 300 U.S. military advisers who have been dispatched to Ukraine in a training mission codenamed “Fearless Guardian.” [Later, under pressure from the Pentagon in December 2015 the amendment barring funding to Azov was removed from the 2016 House Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2685).] White Supremacy Torchlight parade of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Jan. 2015. (Frest777/Wikimedia Commons) On Friday, a Bloomberg News article by Leonid Bershidsky noted that “it's easy to see why” Conyers “would have a problem with the military unit commanded by Ukrainian legislator Andriy Biletsky: Conyers is a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Biletsky is a white supremacist. Biletsky had run Patriot of Ukraine [the precursor of the Azov battalion] since 2005. In a 2010 interview he described the organization as nationalist ‘storm troops' … The group's ideology was ‘social nationalism' — a term Biletsky, a historian, knew would deceive no one. In 2007, Biletsky railed against a government decision to introduce fines for racist remarks: ‘So why the “Negro-love” on a legislative level? They want to break everyone who has risen to defend themselves, their family, their right to be masters of their own land! They want to destroy the Nation's biological resistance to everything alien and do to us what happened to Old Europe, where the immigrant hordes are a nightmare for the French, Germans and Belgians, where cities are “blackening” fast and crime and the drug trade are invading even the remotest corners.'” The Bloomberg article continued, “Biletsky landed in prison in 2011, after his organization took part in a series of shootouts and fights. Following Ukraine's so-called revolution of dignity last year, he was freed as a political prisoner; right-wing organizations, with their paramilitary training, played an important part in the violent phase of the uprising against former President Viktor Yanukovych. The new authorities — which included the ultra-nationalist party Svoboda — wanted to show their gratitude. The war in the east gave Biletsky's storm troopers a chance at a higher status than they could ever have hoped to achieve. They fought fiercely, and last fall, the 400-strong Azov Battalion became part of the National Guard, receiving permission to expand to 2,000 fighters and gaining access to heavy weaponry. So what if some of its members had Nazi symbols tattooed on their bodies and the unit's banner bore the Wolfsangel, used widely by the Nazis during World War II? In an interview with Ukraine's Focus magazine last September, Avakov, responsible for the National Guard, was protective of his heroes. He said of the Wolfsangel: ‘In many European cities it is part of the city emblem. Yes, most of the guys who assembled in Azov have a particular worldview. But who told you you could judge them? Don't forget what the Azov Battalion did for the country. Remember the liberation of Mariupol, the fighting at Ilovaysk, the latest attacks near the Sea of Azov. May God allow anyone who criticizes them to do 10 percent of what they've done. And anyone who's going to tell me that these guys preach Nazi views, wear the swastika and so on, are bare-faced liars and fools.'” Though the House vote on June 10 may have shined a spotlight into this dark corner of the U.S.-embraced Kiev regime, the reality has been well-known for many months though played down in most of the Western news media, often dismissed as “Russian propaganda.” Even the Times has included at least one brief reference to this reality, though buried deep inside an article. On Aug. 10, 2014, a Times' article mentioned the Nazi taint of the Azov battalion in the last three paragraphs of a lengthy story on another topic. “The fighting for Donetsk has taken on a lethal pattern: The regular army bombards separatist positions from afar, followed by chaotic, violent assaults by some of the half-dozen or so paramilitary groups surrounding Donetsk who are willing to plunge into urban combat,” the Times reported. “Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.” [See Consortiumnews.com's “NYT Discovers Ukraine's Neo-Nazis at War.”] A Shiver Down the Spine Torchlight procession in honor of the 106 anniversary of the birthday of Stepan Bandera, Kiev, Jan. 1, 2015. (All-Ukrainian Union CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) The conservative London Daily Telegraph offered more details about the Azov battalion in an article by correspondent Tom Parfitt, who wrote: “Kiev's use of volunteer paramilitaries to stamp out the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘people's republics' should send a shiver down Europe's spine. Recently formed battalions such as Donbas, Dnipro and Azov, with several thousand men under their command, are officially under the control of the interior ministry but their financing is murky, their training inadequate and their ideology often alarming. The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf's Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti-Semites.” Based on interviews with militia members, the Telegraph reported that some of the fighters doubted the reality of the Holocaust, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and acknowledged that they are indeed Nazis. Biletsky, the Azov commander, “is also head of an extremist Ukrainian group called the Social National Assembly,” according to the Telegraph article which quoted a commentary by Biletsky as declaring: “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” In other words, for the first time since World War II, a government had dispatched Nazi storm troopers to attack a European population and officials in Kiev knew what they were doing. The Telegraph questioned Ukrainian authorities in Kiev who acknowledged that they were aware of the extremist ideologies of some militias but insisted that the higher priority was having troops who were strongly motivated to fight. [See Consortiumnews.com's “Ignoring Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Storm Troopers.”] But a rebel counteroffensive led by ethnic Russians last August reversed many of Kiev's gains and drove the Azov and other government forces back to the port city of Mariupol, where Foreign Policy's reporter Alec Luhn also encountered the Nazis. He wrote: “Blue and yellow Ukrainian flags fly over Mariupol's burned-out city administration building and at military checkpoints around the city, but at a sport school near a huge metallurgical plant, another symbol is just as prominent: the wolfsangel (‘wolf trap') symbol that was widely used in the Third Reich and has been adopted by neo-Nazi groups. Pro-Russian forces have said they are fighting against Ukrainian nationalists and ‘fascists' in the conflict, and in the case of Azov and other battalions, these claims are essentially true.” SS Helmets Nazi symbols on helmets worn by members of Ukraine's Azov battalion. (As filmed by a Norwegian film crew and shown on German TV) Nazi symbols on helmets worn by members of Ukraine's Azov battalion. (As filmed by a Norwegian film crew and shown on German TV) More evidence continued to emerge about the presence of Nazis in the ranks of Ukrainian government fighters. Germans were shocked to see video of Azov militia soldiers decorating their gear with the Swastika and the “SS rune.” NBC News reported: “Germans were confronted with images of their country's dark past when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast. The video was shot in Ukraine by a camera team from Norwegian broadcaster TV2. ‘We were filming a report about Ukraine's AZOV battalion in the eastern city of Urzuf, when we came across these soldiers,' Oysten Bogen, a correspondent for the private television station, told NBC News. Minutes before the images were taped, Bogen said he had asked a spokesperson whether the battalion had fascist tendencies. ‘The reply was: absolutely not, we are just Ukrainian nationalists,' Bogen said.” Despite the newsworthiness of a U.S.-backed government dispatching Nazi storm troopers to attack Ukrainian cities, the major U.S. news outlets have gone to extraordinary lengths to excuse this behavior, with The Washington Post publishing a rationalization that Azov's use of the Swastika was merely “romantic.” “In other words, for the first time since World War II, a government had dispatched Nazi storm troopers to attack a European population and officials in Kiev knew what they were doing.” This curious description of the symbol most associated with the depravity of the Holocaust and the devastation of World War II can be found in the last three paragraphs of a Post lead story published in September 2014. Post correspondent Anthony Faiola portrayed the Azov fighters as “battle-scarred patriots” nobly resisting “Russian aggression” and willing to resort to “guerrilla war” if necessary. The article found nothing objectionable about Azov's plans for “sabotage, targeted assassinations and other insurgent tactics” against Russians, although such actions in other contexts are regarded as terrorism. The extremists even extended their threats to the government of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko if he agrees to a peace deal with the ethnic Russian east that is not to the militia's liking. “If Kiev reaches a deal with rebels that they don't support, paramilitary fighters say they could potentially strike pro-Russian targets on their own, or even turn on the government itself,” the article stated. The Post article like almost all of its coverage of Ukraine was laudatory about the Kiev forces fighting ethnic Russians in the east, but the newspaper did have to do some quick thinking to explain a photograph of a Swastika gracing an Azov brigade barracks. So, in the last three paragraphs of the story, Faiola reported: “One platoon leader, who called himself Kirt, conceded that the group's far right views had attracted about two dozen foreign fighters from around Europe. “In one room, a recruit had emblazoned a swastika above his bed. But Kirt dismissed questions of ideology, saying that the volunteers, many of them still teenagers, embrace symbols and espouse extremist notions as part of some kind of ‘romantic' idea.” Despite these well-documented facts, The New York Times excised this reality from its article about the Azov Battalion's defense of Mariupol last February. But isn't the role of Nazis newsworthy? In other contexts, the Times is quick to note and condemn any sign of a Nazi resurgence in Europe. However, in Ukraine, where neo-Nazis, such as Andriy Parubiy served as the coup regime's first national security chief and Nazi militias are at the center of regime's military operations, the Times goes silent on the subject. Rather than fully inform its readers about a crisis that has the potential of becoming a nuclear showdown between the United States and Russia, the Times has chosen to simply be a fount of State Department propaganda, often terming any reference to Kiev's Nazi storm troopers to be “Russian propaganda.” Now, however, a unanimous U.S. House of Representatives — of all things — has acknowledged the unpleasant truth. The late investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He founded Consortium News in 1995. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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