{"id":20103,"date":"2014-03-14T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20103"},"modified":"2014-03-14T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:07:37","slug":"the-fascist-danger-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20103","title":{"rendered":"The fascist danger in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fascist danger in Ukraine<\/strong>
\nWorld Socialist Web Site – 6 March, 2014<\/p>\n

A politically sinister propaganda offensive is underway in the media to either deny the involvement of fascists in the US-backed coup in Ukraine or present their role as a marginal and insignificant detail.<\/p>\n

The New York Times, for example, asserted, \u201cPutin\u2019s claim of an immediate threat to Ukrainian Russians is empty,\u201d while Britain\u2019s Guardian dismissed as a \u201cfancy\u201d claims that events in Crimea were an attempt to \u201cprevent attacks by bands of revolutionary fascists,\u201d adding that \u201cthe world\u2019s media has [not] yet seen or heard from\u201d such forces.
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\nThis is an obscene cover-up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reality is that, for the first time since 1945, an avowedly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi party controls key levers of state power in a European capital, courtesy of US and European imperialism. The unelected Ukrainian government, headed by US appointee Arseniy Yatsenyuk, includes no fewer than six ministers from the fascist Svoboda party.<\/p>\n

Less than a year ago, the World Jewish Congress called for Svoboda to be banned. But the party\u2019s founder and leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, who has spoken repeatedly of his determination to crush the \u201cRusskie-Yid mafia that controls Ukraine,\u201d was feted by US and European Union officials as they prepared last month\u2019s coup.<\/p>\n

Following the 2010 conviction of John Demjanjuk as an accomplice in the murder of nearly 30,000 people in the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor, Tyahnybok called him a hero. Tyahnybok\u2019s deputy, Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, founded a think tank called the Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center.<\/p>\n

Svoboda was the major political force in the Maidan protests that overthrew Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. In return for providing the shock troops for the coup, it has been given control of vital ministries.<\/p>\n

Svoboda co-founder Andriy Parubiy acted as \u201csecurity commandant\u201d in the protests, directing attacks by the Right Sector\u2014an alliance of fascists and extreme right-wing nationalists, including the paramilitary Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self Defense (UNA-UNSO). Dressed in uniforms modelled on Hitler\u2019s Waffen SS, its members boast of fighting Russia in Chechnya, Georgia and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Parubiy is now secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, overseeing the Defence Ministry and the armed forces. Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the Right Sector, is his deputy.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is another leading Svoboda figure, as is Oleh Makhnitsky (prosecutor-general), Serhiy Kvit (Education Minstry), Andriy Makhnyk (Ecology Ministry) and Ihor Shvaiko (Agriculture Ministry).<\/p>\n

Others reportedly connected to UNA-UNSO are Dmytro Bulatov (youth and sports minister) and the \u201cactivist\u201d journalist Tetyana Chernovol, who was named chair of the government\u2019s anti-corruption committee. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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