WeeklySA_AdminDUPLICITY: Ukraine’s Nazi OUN collaborated with Nazi Germany during the World War II. And now they are collaborating with United States-NATO, fully supported by “Western democracy” and the “International Community, writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky in this article, which first appeared in Global Research online publication…
UKRAINE: IS THE WEST PROPPING A NAZI REGIME?
By Michel Chossudovsky
The Neo-Nazi parties of Ukraine’s so-called coalition government are actively supported by “the international community” – namely Western governments.
The Nazi faction within the Kiev government exerts its power in the realm of intelligence, internal affairs, national security and the military. It’s a proxy regime in liaison with its United States-NATO sponsors.
Amply documented, the 2014 EuroMaidan US-sponsored coup d’Etat in Ukraine was carried out with the support of the two Nazi factions: Svoboda and Right Sektor headed by Dmytro Yarosh.
Andriy Parubiy founded in 1991 the Social-National Party of Ukraine (subsequently renamed Svoboda [Freedom], together with Oleh Tyahnybok. The name Social-National Party was chosen with a view to replicating the name of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi (National Socialist) party. Parubiy was subsequently appointed Chairman of Ukraine’s Parliament (Verkhovna Rada).
According to Parubiy: Adolf Hitler was “the torchbearer of democracy”.
These are not “Neo-Nazi” entities. The term “Neo” (New) is misleading. They are full-fledged Nazi parties, historically aligned (going back to World War II) with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) of Stepan Bandera (OUN-B)
According to the WW II Holocaust Museum:
“Before World War II, the 1.5 million Jews living in the Soviet republic of Ukraine constituted the largest Jewish population within the Soviet Union, and one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe. … The number of Jews in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (UkrSSR) rose to 2.45 million people [from 1939-1941]”
Amply documented, the OUN-B and its National Insurgent Army (UPA) were actively involved in the massacres of Jews, Poles, Roma and Communists in major cities including Odessa and Kiev.
At the outset of Operation Barbarossa, (June, 22 1941) in coordination with the death squads (Einsatzgruppen) of Nazi Germany, members of the OUN-B were instrumental in the killings in the City of Lviv, Western region of Galicia, resulting in the massacre and deportation of more than 100,000 Jews:
“The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive pogroms and massacres of Jews in June and July 1941 in the city of Lwów. (Lviv, Lvov) in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine (now Lviv, Ukraine). The massacres were perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists (specifically, the OUN), German death squads (Einsatzgruppen), and urban population from 30 June to 2 July [1941].”
While Stepan Bandera had announced the creation of a Nazi Ukrainian State, which pledged “to work with Nazi Germany”, Hitler disapproved of the proclamation. Despite Bandera’s “house arrest”, the members of OUN-B actively collaborated with the Wehrmacht’s occupation forces (1941-1944).
In Ukraine: “…up to a million Jews were murdered by Einsatzgruppen units, Police battalions, Wehrmacht troops and local Nazi collaborators” (emphasis added)
On September 1 1941, the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian newspaper Volhyn wrote, in an article titled Let’s Conquer the City, namely Lviv:
“All elements that reside in our land, whether they are Jews or Poles, must be eradicated. We are at this very moment resolving the Jewish question, and this resolution is part of the plan for the Reich’s total reorganization of Europe.
The empty space that will be created, must immediately and irrevocably be filled by the real owners and masters of this land, the Ukrainian people”.(emphasis added)
In this regard, the Janowska concentration camp was established in the outskirts of Lviv in September 1941.
Lviv had a Jewish population of 160 000. The Janowska camp combined “elements of labour, transit, and extermination”.
By the time Soviet forces reached Lviv on July 21 1944, less than one per cent of Lviv’s Jews had survived the occupation” (emphasis added).
Holocaust Denial?
The OUN-B was complicit in the crimes of Nazi Germany. Our (Western) governments – which claim to be firmly committed to social democracy– are actively supporting a Ukrainian Nazi movement which collaborated with Nazi Germany’s occupation forces during World War II.
That is the unspoken truth which is embedded in our history, casually ignored by both the media and Western Europe’s “Classe politique”.
By ignoring the World War II legacy of Stepan Bandera’s OUN-B and casually describing him as an anti-Soviet Nationalist, both the mainstream media as well as our governments, are complicit in what might be described as “Holocaust Denial”.
Specifically, Germany’s penal code prohibits “Denial of the Holocaust” as well as the “dissemination of Nazi propaganda”.
We are dealing with something far more serious than “hate speech”: What is at stake is the relationship of the German government with Ukraine’s Nazi movement.
Unquestionably, the German Government of Chancellor Scholz’s decision to support Ukraine’s Nazi Movement constitutes a criminal act under German law. (Federal Ministry of Justice), namely the violation of the Penal Code.
Who is Practising Antisemitism?
While Western governments are actively repressing the protest movements against Israel’s act of genocide, —with mass arrests on charges of antisemitism—, these same governments are supporting Ukraine’s Nazi movement which actively participated and collaborated with Nazi Germany in the genocide directed against the Jewish population of Ukraine.
Sounds contradictory?
My question is: Who are the anti-semites? The answer is obvious. Our (Western) governments, which are financing the Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.
From a legal standpoint, this is a criminal act on the part of Western governments. Moreover, the funds allocated by the US Congress (April 2024) to Ukraine ($60 billion +) and Israel ($22 billion +), are in blatant violation of the Genocide Convention:
The Genocide Convention
Article I defines the responsibility of contracting parties to prevent and to punish
The Contracting Parties [member States of the U.N.] confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article II of the Convention defines Genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article III, section (e) defines the acts which are punishable including
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Does “Complicity” apply to Western governments?
Article IV
“Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III [Article III (e)] shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
“Complicity in Genocide” (Art. III). Our Governments “Shall be Punished” (Art. IV)?
Articles I, III and IV
By endorsing Israel’s act of genocide against the People of Palestine, our governments which are “contracting parties” are “complicit” according to Article III (e) of the Genocide Convention. Under Articles III and IV, Western governments (“constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials”) which endorse Israel’s act of genocide are subject to punishment under the Genocide Convention.
Is Netanyahu anti-semitic?
Western governments are not only supporting Israel’s act of genocide, they are in collusion with Prime Minister Netanyahu who has an extensive criminal record (charges of corruption according to the New York Times).
While the genocidal actions taken by his government against the People of Palestine are of a criminal nature under the Genocide Convention, they are also considered as an act of anti-semitism directed against the People of Palestine.
The Semite people of the Levant, Mesopotamia and the broader Middle East share a common history, culture and similar languages, broadly including Arabs, Jews, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians. Bear in mind that Aramea (similar to Arabic and Hebrew) was the language of communication at the outset of Christianity. It was the language of Jesus Christ. Flash Forward: Collaborating with Today’s Nazis
There is ample evidence of collaboration between the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime and NATO member states, specifically in relation to the continuous flow of military aid as well as the training and support provided to Ukrainian forces, not to mention the Nazi Azov Battalion. In turn, the Azov battalion –which is the object of military aid, has also been involved in the conduct of Summer Nazi training Camps for children and adolescents.
The Azov battalion’s Summer Camps are supported by US military aid channelled to the Ukraine National Guard via the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The MIA coordinates the “anti-terrorism operation” (ATO) in Donbass.
Today these children – who have been duly indoctrinated – are adolescents who are being drafted to serve in the Armed Forces and/or the Azov Battalion.
Neo-Nazi Parties are Illegal
While Neo-Nazi parties are outlawed in a number of European countries including Germany where symbols and Nazi slogans are illegal, the governments of NATO-EU member states are routinely supporting Nazism in Ukraine.
Who are the anti-semites? The answer is obvious. Our governments are collaborating with the Nazi parties in Ukraine, which constitutes a criminal act under international law. Providing 60+ billion dollars of military aid to a Nazi government is illegal. It’s the criminalisation of the US Congress.
Supporting Israel’s Genocide against the People of Palestine is a Crime against Humanity. Our governments are in violation of the Genocide Convention.
By endorsing Israel’s act of genocide against the People of Palestine, our governments (which are “contracting parties”) are “complicit” according to Article III (e) of the Genocide Convention.
Under Articles III and IV, Western governments (“constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials”) which have endorsed Israel’s act of genocide are subject to punishment under the Genocide Convention.
* Michel Chossudovsky – Substack (May 5 2024). Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, and editor of Global Research.
