How the Union Leads to Ruin in Ukraine

The Uniate Church and the Ruin are two concepts from Little Russian history that inform the Ukrainian reality of today…

From the olden days, the Holy See in Rome sought to conquer the Holy Rus’. Alexander Nevsky had to repel an invasion of the Teutonic Knights but there was a much more fearsome foe than the knights, the Rzeczpospolita, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Both constitutive realms of this empire began expanding their domains into Rus’ already in the fourteenth century with the seizure of Halychyna by the Kingdom of Poland. Coincidently, a gene test my brother did shows we are descended from the Lithuanians that conquered Rus’ and there is family legend about a “Polish” ancestry on my Russian side.

There was a difference in faith, while the Westerners answered to the Pope, Rus’ answered to the Eastern Churches and eventually, Moscow became free of Constantinople following the Ottoman conquest, and the only rightful spiritual authority in Rus’. Fearing this Muscovite influence, the Polish masters of Ukraine decided to bring the Orthodox Churches under Roman Catholic control. In 1595 at the Union of Brest, the bishops of Little and White Russia under Rzeczpospolita accepted Roman domination. Several decades have passed and a rebellion erupted in Little Russia, which saw the Cossacks swear fealty to the Russian Tsar. This has plunged Ukraine into a destructive period known as the Ruin, which resolved itself really only in the eighteenth century with the Russian Empire coming to dominate the entirety of Little Russia, and the neutralisation of the Rzeczpospolita.

But unfortunately, the Russian Empire failed to take Halychyna in the division of Poland. Halychyna, or Galicia as it is also known, is a part of Rus. West of Lvov, there lies a town called Rava Rus’ka, that’s where Rus’ begins and it goes all the way to Vladivostok. Halychyna fell under the Austrian rule, and the Uniate Church survived there. This later served as the nucleus out of which will rise Ukrainian nationalism. Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Austria-Hungary, as the Habsburg realms came to be known, entered into alliance with the German Empire, the Russian Empire joined France in an Entente. The Habsburgs became enemies of Russia.

Austria was faced with a problem of Russians on its territory. The Austrians viewed so called Russophillism of many of the inhabitants of Halychyna with suspicion. Thousands of people from Halychyna made annual pilgrimage to the Pochayevskaya Lavra, an Orthodox monastery right across the border from Austrian Halychyna in the Russian Empire. The Austrian authorities began repressing the local Russophiles. Maxim Sandovych, an Orthodox covert from the Uniate Church was tortured to death by the Austrian authorities prior to the First World War. After the Russian defeat by the Central Powers in 1915, the Austrians have interned the Russian population in concentration camps in Terezín in Bohemia, and in Thalerhof in Styria. Wikipedia has this to say about Thalerhof:

The Austro-Hungarian authorities imprisoned leaders of the Russophilism movement among the Carpatho-Rusyns, Lemkos, and Galicians; those who recognized the Russian language as the literary standard form of their own Slavic dialects and had sympathy for the Russian Empire. Thus, the captives were forced to abandon their identity as Russians and obtain a Ukrainian identity. Captives who identified themselves as Ukrainians were freed from the camp.

Terezín became the site of a genocide again during WWII, when the Jews were interned there.

Simultaneously with the repression, the Austrians have supported a development of a Ukrainian identity that would be different from Russian. Remember dear readers, national identities are always imposed from above and people can always be reprogrammed. Polish nobility long toyed with the Ukrainian idea. According to Mikhail Onufrienko, a blogger from Kharkov that now lives in Crimea in exile, the idea to rename the South Western part of Rus’ into Ukraine originated already in the sixteenth century with the Jesuit envoy, Antonio Possevino. Part of the reason the Polish rebellions against Russian rule of the nineteenth century failed was because the Russian peasants didn’t go along with their Polish masters. Many of these Poles and early adepts of the Ukrainian national idea fled to Austrian Halychyna, where they continued their work with Austrian support.

A good example of the Austrian support for Ukrainian nationalism is Mikhailo Hrushevsky, who was given a cushy job of a professor in Lvov and a hefty grant to write Ukrainian history, a historical conception that removes Ukraine from the common Russian history. If you were to write the true history of Ukraine, you would have to start with Nikolay Kostomarov, Ivan Franko, the afore mentioned Hrushevsky, and not somewhere deep in the past, like in the Cossack period. The Cossacks referred to themselves as Russians. I would not even speak much about Shevchenko, who also identified as Russian. But Hrushevsky did just that, relabelled them all as Ukrainians. I call the conception that Ukraine emerged out of Ukrainian nationalism, which was heavily supported by the enemies of Russia, “a short history of Ukraine.”

By the First World War, there was a sizeable community of newly created Ukrainians in Halychyna. The first time the nationality “Ukrainian” appeared officially was in 1916, when the future Emperor Charles I inspected the troops in Halychyna, and declared everyone in the camp to be Ukrainian. After the revolution in Russia, the Communists, who were opposed to Russian nationalism made the decision to break down the Russian nation by employing the Austrian project, and began a programme of mass creating the Ukrainians. For this purpose, they brought many teachers from Halychyna, including the aforementioned Mikhailo Hrushevsky. Russia’s Ukrainian headache is a bolshevik legacy.

Early Ukrainian nationalism was very much centred around the Uniate Church, the Austrians viewed the papists as loyal citizens. Ukrainism was therefore an extension of the previous Union, the Union of Brest. In more recent times an idea of a united Europe appeared, and since the 1990s, the European Union is bringing these ideas into reality. But parallel with the European Union that we all know from the European Parliament, and the European Commission, there is also a spiritual union and the ideological founder of European integration, the Pan-European Union.

The importance of union with Rome has slightly diminished in recent times with the decline of Catholicism and religiosity in the West, and the centre of control gravitated eventually to Brussels. However, there is a lot of “Habsburg” influence on the symbolic basis of the EU. You see, the Pan-European Union has given the European Union all of its symbols. The circle of twelve stars:

The twelve stars symbolise the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and the number 12 stands for completion and perfection. Note the Cross, as if indicating an inheritance from the Roman Catholic project. The secular EU, and the European Council of course do not have the cross in their flag. Furthermore, the anthem of the European Union, the Ode to Joy, was adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the 1970s on the suggestion made in 1955 by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, a son of a Bohemian Nobleman and an upperclass Japanese gaijin chaser, the founder and the first head of the Pan-European Union. Now check out the Ode to Joy on the Euromaidan, they even created new updated lyrics for it in Ukrainian. After Coudenhove-Kalergi, the head of the Pan-European Union was Otto von Habsburg.

Petr Fiala, the current head of the Czech Civic Democrats with Berndt Posselt, the current leader of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmanschaft, and Otto von Habsburg at a Pan-European meeting in Moravia. Habsburgofilia is strong for some reason in the Czech Lands.

It seems like the Austrian nobility found itself a new tool of domination. They have switched Catholicism for European integration. Ukraine suffers a new period of strife currently, Ruin 2.0, caused by a desire for another Union, as expressed in the Cargo Cult festival, the Euromaidan. Ukrainians seem again victims of some Austrian voodoo. And the EU is not even able to make Ukraine a candidate for membership.

Don’t be a cuck, don’t fall under the spell of an Austrian voodoo. Although, I have to say many adepts of Ukrainism are also adepts of another Austrian voodoo, created by the arch-opponent of Coudenhove-Kalergi.

NEXTA Founder, Roman Protasevych Arrested in Minsk

For those who don’t know, NEXTA is a Belarussian opposition media project, and Telegram channel that became famous through the organisation and management of the recent anti-Lukashenko protests. NEXTA and Roman Protasevych appeared in this documentary of Yuri Dud’, English subs included…

And now for Охуительные Истории, Meduza reports:

Roman Protasevych, the founder of Telegram channel NEXTA was arrested in Minsk. He was on board of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius. The plane landed in Minsk following a bomb scare. The passengers were taken off flight after which Protasevych was arrested…
In November 2020, the founders of NEXTA, Roman Protasevych and Stepan Putilo were included by the KGB on a list of people engaging in terrorist activity…

Update: It is said the plane was redirected to Minsk by Belarussian fighter jets.

Update 2: NEXTA literally called for the murder of cops but the President of Lithuania demands:

Update3: Demshiza all over Eastern Europe is livid.

Alexandr Mitrofanov – a Czech journalist of Russian origin. My elderly mother calls him “a traitor.”: Lukashenko would never stoop to todays act of state terrorism if he wasn’t certain that Putin has his back with his nuclear bombs, rockets and preparations for war.

I don’t know who this Polish gentleman is but here is what he says (my free translation): And this after Biden’s decision on the Nord Stream 2, that is a warm up before the Blinken-Lavrov meeting.

Přístavní povaleč – a shithead: This was an act of aerial piracy, highjacking of a plane

Update 4: USA did this trying to catch Snowden, so anyone can.

Update 5: More demshiza:

From Abby’s profile:

You know Christo Grozev that you are full of shit?

Update 6: Protasevych was in Athens as a press attaché to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who was meeting Donald Tusk and the president of Greece. Also present was US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pratt, who coincidentally was the ambassador in Kiev in 2013-2014.

Update 7: I hear Protasevych fought in the Azov. Protasevych confirms he was in Donbas as a journalist.

The leader of the Azov gang, Biletskiy about Protasevych: “Truly, Roman has fought against the occupation of Ukraine together with Azov and other military units. He was with us in Shirokino, where he was wounded. But his weapon was the word not machinegun.”

What calibre is the word? 5.45?

*** if Protasevych was a Western journalist, the above photo posing with a black sun would make all the media forget about him but because he an Eastern Slav against Russia, he gets all the love…

Update 8: Protasevych worked for Radio Liberty in Belarus.

SBU Curated YouTube Channels

It is clear, Western secret services, having tamed the secret services of East European native tribes, have outsourced a lot of influence activities in the Russian Federation to them. Or perhaps it is NED directly curating them. Countries like Latvia, Georgia, and the Czech Republic have long acted as refuges for ousted influencers from Russia such as KamikadzeD, who moved to Prague, I guess to enjoy some anal action; Medusa, who are in Latvia; and the Navalny circus which is said to be relocating to Georgia.

The Ukrainian secret service, the SBU seems to have gone further. Instead of hosting and sponsoring Russian exiles, they have decided to make use of the linguistic situation in the country. Ukrainians, if they shed the South Russian accent, speak standard Russian, and therefore are indistinguishable from regular Russians. The SBU decided to simply have Ukrainians pose as Russians to do pro-Navalny and anti-Putin content.

This article I have found as a by-product of my research into the MKU because it mentions the story as well. The article talks about a YouTube channel that bears the title “Swindled (or Cheated) Russian”. The star of this channel is Vitaly Shevtsov, a native of Donetsk, residing in Kiev. The only thing Russian about the channel are the topics.

Vitaliy Shevtsov and Anastasia Silivonchyk. Come to think about, I worked for a short time as a recruiter and manager of Ukrainians in a trucker company, and Vitaliy Shevtsov was the name of one of the guy’s I recruited

Navalny Strikes Back, The Kremlin is in Panic, The EU Will Punish Russian Oligarchs are but some examples of videos on his channel. Which is basically the Russian liberast package. True Ukrainian Bandera, SS, Hitler was a good guy patriots – hate Navalny and think he is just another shithead Russian chauvinist.

The Обманутый Россиянин is still on YouTube. The above exposé did not deter him from Vlogging. Even though the article I discuss here is from January, YouTube tells me, the latest video was posted 20 minutes ago. The channel seems to play digests of liberast videos. You know the drill boys, vote his shit down and say hello to SBU”

The connection to SBU is further solidified by the liaisons of Shevtsov’s girlfriend, Anastasia Silivonchyk. On Vkontakte, she is friends with two SBU operatives. The first is is the investigating officer, Alexei Shapakin, who is the son of Vladimir Shapakin, one of the Kiev’s diamond prosecutors, who is said to have received bribes worth hundred’s of thousands of US Dollars. Another liaison of Anastasia is Vitaliy Koshitsky, an SBU counterintelligence operative. According to a leaked database, Koshitsky has an address at Shekavitskaya 21, an SBU hostel.

The Vkontakte profile of Koshitsky is interesting as well, he is the SBU curator for Russian radicals. One of his contacts is certain Andrey Nesteryuk. Nesteryuk is openly gay, and a supporter of anarcho-feminist projects. His status at the profile is: “Solidarity with Belarus, No to Russian conquest of Belarus, Freedom for political prisoners of Belarus and Russia.” Other of Koshitsky’s friends are Ilya Matveyev and Ilya Vasilyev, two other anarchists.

Also, among Koshitsky’s contacts is Andrey Khripunov. Khripunov became famous for posting a photo from a nose operation of the Russian blogger “Panich” to TikTok claiming the Russian police killed a man during protests:

An opposition activists has been brutally murdered!
After “an attack” on policeman, Vitaly Tsal’ died in local clinic. I remember you brother and will never forget.

Khripunov’s channel nutakoe20 contains around 25 videos. It has expressed support for the protesters, spread fake information about torture, beatings, and killings of Navalny supporters.

Personally, I believe that the MKU arrests had something to do with the investigations into the Navalny organisation. At one point the investigators must have stumbled upon MKU domains while looking at who organised the protests.

Maniacs, the Cult of Killers

This is some hardcore!!!

In my post about the Facebook ban on a Russian news story that reported about the Ukrainian connections of the recent series of arrests of Neonazis across Russia, I have only remotely touched upon the identity of the group in question because back then my information on it was rather disorganized. Here is what I have gathered so far…

Basically, the group that is the target of the FSB arrests is called MANIACS, THE CULT OF KILLERS, and it was founded by certain Egor Krasnov, native of Dnipro, Ukraine. This young gentleman apparently attended several Azov battalion summer camps as a youth, and had violent proclivities. Eventually, he found joy in the killing of the homeless, alcoholics, junkies etc. However, he also shared his exploits with likeminded individuals online, on Telegram and on Dark Net, and enticed them to do the same and record their deeds on camera to be shared by the community. He was able to build a considerable following throughout the CIS.

Krasnov was an adherent of the white supremacists ideology, which he likely apprehended in the Azov camp but he himself said the Azov was too mainstream for his tastes. He harboured hatred towards those that were darker than is the usual Ukrainian phenotype. It is said he has assaulted an Iranian student with a knife, which alerted the authorities to his activities and he was taken under arrest.

EGOR KRASNOV “Our goal is a racially pure state”

After his arrest, the content of his social media properties change a bit. While under Krasnov’s management the main topic revolved around killings of lowlives and filming it, the content after his arrest contains instructions on how to make bombs, commit arson, and what is more interesting anti-government rhetoric, and the necessity to kill cops. Reports have it, the group arrested in Voronezh were also part of local pro-Navalny groups and gave instructions on how to behave during protests, especially how to fight the police.

It seems that the SBU (Ukrainian secret service) has captured Krasnov’s social media accounts and was managing them, or alternatively curated Krasnov’s activity.

Based mostly on this video

The Massacre of Odessa

I am glad there are people in my country, who know the truth. I have discovered a wonderful text on a Czech blog of which I provide a translation:

At a time when our country is in the grips of an affair that will write itself into the annals of Czech history as the provocation of Vrbětice, it is easy to overlook an anniversary of the massacre of Odessa, which shook the civilised World seven years ago. Amazingly, in the same year when the foundations of the current (Czech) theatre were laid.

Let us make a summary of the facts. It is May 2014, in Odessa on the Kulikovo pole, in front of the House of the Trade Unions, there is a tent city, where the people are protesting in favour of federalisation of Ukraine. They are unsure that Kiev’s policy accords with their idea of living with the Russians. Simultaneously, just by chance, there is a football match held in the city, which was attended by a horde of scum, just like everywhere in the World. (my note: in fact, the neonazi scum was drawn into the city over several weeks and this was just a reinforcement). To mix provocateurs into such a crowd was not hard. And at this moment there begins a False Flag Operation, which already went so well in Kiev (my note: the author means the still unexplained shootings at late Maidan). Some commando with St. George’s Ribbons begins to shoot at the crowd and the first people fall dead that evening. The mob is livid and a clash soon begins. Suddenly, St. George’s Ribbons disappear and a commando with Yellow & Blue Ribbons appears. Some mean people say that the attackers just changed the ribbons but that is just a speculations. The fact is that the St. George’s Ribbons suddenly disappeared.

After the sudden disappearance of the commando, the mob overwhelmed its opponents and drove them to Kulikovo Pole, where the supporters of federalisation had their camp. The enraged mob chased all the Moskals (the pejorative name used for Ukrainian Russians, my note: actually all Russians) and a massacre that we cannot well imagine in our civilised age began. I am not a sadist, however, anyone interested can find photos and testimonies that will make your stomach churn. Although this material is heavily censored. I will forever remember an image of a pregnant woman with a spread out legs on a table. I do not even want to imagine what she must have suffered before she died. In the building there were many people with a burned upper part of the body, it suggests they were set alight and suffocated from the fumes. Reports of rape and lynching have leaked out into the public soon after. Several tens of people have died.

Kiev brushed everything under a rug. Not paying attention to the fact of burned corpses, they said the victims died because of few molotov cocktails thrown into the windows. No mention of murders, rape, setting people alight and beating those that jumped out of the windows to death. Even Czech Television, the media that cares so much about Navalny does not want to investigate this. As if nothing happened. Therefore, we can just watch how the Kiev government does not want to prosecute the perpetrators of this mass murder, and simultaneously, the witnesses are mysteriously disappearing. At the same time, we are witnessing the worship of the war criminal Bandera, celebrations of the liberation of Ukraine by the Wehrmacht and other historical manipulations that would disgust any normal man. All this is accompanied by cheerful moaning of the media in presumably democratic countries that did not notice the massacre of Odessa but they are fervently feeding the plebs with a fairy tale about clumsy Russian agents.

Ukraine is the future battlefield between Russia and the West. Many young Ukrainians do not want to become cannon fodder and leave the country in droves in hope they will return one day when peace reigns. We can only hope that the plans of the jarheads only stay at yapping over the fence. I just do not believe that while we are yapping, we should so categorically adopt the viewpoint of this or that side. Because sometimes it so happens that the small dogs get sacrificed when two big dogs are fighting. As if we (Czechs) do not have experience of this. It is a shame that we are not behaving more like the Austrians. Ok, a bankrupt Westinghouse will build the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant, and we can close the factories that export to Russia if our big brother wills it. However, nobody can convince that the West is out in pursuit of truth and love. (my note: a slogan of Václav Havel used sarcastically for the woke segment of the Czech public, who are also the main critics of Russia). The business here is about resources and money.

If the West really wanted justice, this massacre would be investigated as an act of genocide.

PS: Tomorrow, the National Corps, the civilian wing of the neonazi Azov battalion will hold a march celebrating the massacre in Odessa.

I am so Glad I am not on Facebook Anymore, Facebook Censorship is Disgusting

Guess what dear viewers, Facebook censored people who shared a photo of a man throwing a sieg heil at a neonazi demonstration held several days ago in Kiev, featured in this post, so says Anatoly Shariy…

I don’t have any reason to disbelieve Anatoly because, as was mentioned on this blog, neonazis moderate Facebook in Ukraine. Imagine I would still have a profile on Facebook and I would share my posts from this blog? It wouldn’t be safe, and I could be blocked. The people that shared this photo thought the public deserves to know but that I guess that goes against community standards. And I will add that this multi billion company is morally bankrupt, and you are better off not using it.

There Was a March in Honour of the Foundation of the SS Halychyna in Kiev

Nazis in Kiev have staged a commemoration of the founding of the SS Halychyna, a volunteer force of the Waffen SS, the 14th Brigadier Division recruited from the inhabitants of the Distrikt Galizien, that is Western Ukraine, in 1943. It was a collaborationist force used mostly to fight anti-Nazi partisans across East-Central Europe. Kiev has not seen any marches commemorating this unit of Waffen SS but it has been the scene of commemoration of another West Ukrainian nationalist icon, Stepan Bandera for many years.

The march has created a lot of controversy, and was condemned not only by the usual adherents of the Soviet Ukrainian narrative but also by people that generally make apologetics for Ukrainian nationalists, such as the historian, Volodymyr Vyatrovych. The attendance was rather low:

But knowing how this works, this is but testing the waters. Prepare for a show of force next time…

Number of dodgy characters have joined the march…

This one is sieg heiling…

Cossack larpers remind me of the Italian fashioner designer, Franco Moschino for some reason…

The neonazi leader Evhen Karas’ made these curios invitations…

Neonazi Problem in Ukraine is Being Hushed by (some in) the West

From time to time you might see a Western commentator say that Ukraine does not have a Nazi problem because… fill in your lame reason… Usually they say that explicitly nationalist parties do not score significant electoral victories. That is partially true but when Svoboda was propped up financially under Yanukovych, they actually got seats in the Rada (the national parliament of Ukraine). The whole argument falls apart when you consider that the big oligarch supported parties in Ukraine that form the Rada now have pretty much adopted the nationalist program that consists of forcible Ukrainization, attack on canonical links between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Churches, rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators, and the demonisation of the Soviet past, and overall Russophobia.

Another argument that I have heard from Anton Shekhovtsov, an NGO worker that focuses on far right movements, is that the Nazis of the Azov battalion are not really a problem because they are under the control of the Ministry of Interior. Recently, I have watched Anatoly Shariy on the Vladimir Slovyov’s podcast, and he said: “Who cares if the Neonazis get low scores in elections, they have guns.” Well, they literally have tanks. My take on this has been that the West keeps a blind eye on Nazis in Ukraine because:

Neonazis mean Western policies towards Ukraine may be discredited in the eyes of the Western public and therefore denial, half truths, and accusations of Russian disinformation.
Ukraine has become something similar to Afghanistan in the eighties. There, Islamic fanatics were mobilised to fight the Soviets, and here Neonazis are mobilised to fight the Russian cultural element in Ukraine, the separatists in the East if not directly the Russian Federation.

Neonazis were instrumental in the victory of the Maidan and radical nationalism is used to repress pro-Russian people, and the Russian cultural element in Ukraine. I do not think the Azov Nazis would last against a Russian military but should the Russians intervene in Ukraine on behalf of the separatists, the West is going to enact sanctions and embargoes. Hence we have a situation where Nazis shell villages in Eastern Ukraine and it makes Russia look bad.

The other day, an interview with a former journalist of RFE/RL, Alexander Orlov for RT came to my attention, particularly because of this passage.

I translate: “There was a story from Ukraine. A story about a youth camp run by the battalion “Azov”, where children with the Wolfsangel rune on their jackets are playing war games. I have made a trailer with the title “From the heart to the Sun. A Neonazi camp youth camp was opened near Kiev.” Everyone was unhappy with it, and the Ukrainian section demanded I be sacked. (To their credit, a number of Western publications reported on the Azov Neonazi summer camp, although I believe the story of Neonazis in Ukraine deserves more attention than it gets)

“You are wrong, you are wrong” – Said [my] colleague Michael, the vice president actually, “Ukraine needs a little bit of this “national socialism” to win.”

One only wonders what they are winning by supporting a bunch of Hitler worshipers? We see a case of presenting American interests, which is to cause problems for Russia, as the interests of the Ukrainian people. But the opposite is the case, enmity with Russia is actually a detriment to the entire region, and it is in the interest of Eastern Europe to shed this enmity and mute the agents of American influence.

As for the brand of “national socialism”, this is basically the violent street culture of the Neonazis, which is not something you want to cultivate in your society. Ukraine has seen the murders of ordinary citizens by Neonazi thugs in recent years, in drunken street brawls, because since they have gained social acceptance, they have become much too bold and now prey on Ukrainian normies. There is some indication that the Ukrainian secret service is making attempts to spread this vile ideology among the youths of Russia but the FSB works rather well at countering it.

PS: Another interesting moment in the Alexander Orlov interview is where he tells that he was chastised for calling members of the Al Qaeda in Syria “terrorists”. Clearly, US is pimping and giving information cover to radical Muslims in Syria, and here you have an answer to why Russia is involved there. These terrorists employed against Assad’s regime will next be employed against Russia and their allies. A similar situation is with Ukraine and sooner or later Russia will be militarily involved there too.

Neonazis Vandalize The Office of the President of Ukraine

This is what the door to the office of the president on Bankovaya street in central Kiev looks like now…

The neonazis have protested the jailing of a neonazi thug, Sternenko. But I am rather worried about a regime that allows the mob to vandalize seats of authority like this. The response of Murica to a rampaging mob was to call in the military to Washington DC.

So what will be Zelensky’s reaction to this?

Facebook Blocked A Russian News Story About Arrested Ukrainian Nazi Partisans

Three neonazis in the Russian city of Voronezh were arrested by the police for spreading hateful propaganda…

However, a report about them in the Russian media was censored by Facebook because it said the radicals had links to Ukraine. They were basing this claim on information provided by an insider in the security forces. Facebook has blocked the Russian media report after an analysis done by their Ukrainian fact checkers, the Stop Fake group. I have already featured them on this blog once. Their integrity is impeccable.

The Stop Fake argues that in the official press release of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, there isn’t anything said about Ukrainian affiliation of the arrested, and that they were all Russian citizens. This however does not mean anything. It has to be noted that following the Maidan and the outbreak of military conflict in the Donbass, many Russian Neonazis, literal Hitler worshipers, went to exile to Ukraine because over there they can practice their love for Hitler without repercussions.

I have recently found, for instance, this Neonazi Black Metal group which migrated from Tver, Russia to Ukraine. They recently held a concert in Kiev.

Many of these types have served in Ukraine’s armed forces and they have veteran organizations. My knowledge about them only scratches the surfaces, the topic of Russian neonazis in Ukraine’s forces is a topic for a separate discussion.

But bottom line is that there aren’t just links between Ukrainian and Russian neonazis and an existence of a neonazi group in Russia with contacts in Ukraine is not something implausible.

Links of Stop Fake to Neonazis

Recently, the Ukrainian Soros funded publication Zaborana mentioned some cozy relationships between representatives of Stop Fake and radical nationalists:

One month earlier on June 2nd, Zaborona’s official Facebook page shared a publication about Denis Nikitin, a key figure among European ultra-right radicals, which the social network then blocked 18 hours later. Soon after, Facebook explained that the post was removed by mistake (assumingly, due to a photograph illustrating the material, in which a Ukrainian man wrapped in a swastika flag throws his hand in the Nazi salute) and reinstated it the next day. Zaborona decided to follow up on the incident and later released the material discussing alleged links of the fact-checking project StopFake to Ukrainian far-right and neo-Nazi organisations. Zaborona journalists explained their interest by the fact that after the removal of the Facebook post, some readers recommended to search for possible motives of the new fact-checking partner of Facebook in Ukraine– StopFake.org. On March 27th, Facebook indeed confirmed its partnership with StopFake and VoxUkraine to increase its fact-checking capacities on social network pages in Ukraine.
Zaborona eventually released material that first focused on Yevhen Fedchenko – the co-founder and chief editor for StopFake and director of the Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. It pointed out Fedchenko’s habit of taking political stances, speaking against freedom of the press and on one occasion even whitewashing the reputation of a Ukrainian far-right group C14 (Sich), Ukraine’s controversial group of far-right radicals, by singling out one of its members as his respected colleague. Fedchenko has also been accused of taking the side of Myrotvorets, or Peacemaker, a Ukrainian nationalist website that in 2016 doxed the personal data of more than 5,000 Ukrainian and foreign reporters with press passes issued by the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, labeling them “terrorist collaborators”. A closer look, however, reveals that Zaborona’s allegations seem to be taken out of context and might conceal more complex motives in explaining such statements.
Later the Zaborona report moves on to Marko Suprun, “the main face of StopFake” and the person in charge of the English-language StopFakeNews project on YouTube. According to Zaborona’s findings, Suprun has often been spotted in the company of Ukraine’s infamous far-right figures, notably Arseniy Bilodub, the founder of the far-right clothing brand SvasStone and the leader of the hatecore band Sokyra Peruna, and Andriy Sereda, the frontman of another controversial rock band Komu Vnyz. The material refers to photographs of Suprun spotted together with both Bilodub and Sereda, as well as other Ukraine’s far-right radicals, and cites the opinions of experts, who point out that StopFake has become “too politicised,” and that Marko Suprun’s friendship with the extreme right may affect the organisation’s image.

Source

Yevhen Fedchenko blocked me on Twitter after I shared information on Jakub Janda to him. Marko Suprun is the husband of the Ukrainian-American, former Minister of Health of Ukraine, Ulyana Suprun. I am not surprised a Ukrainian-American would hang out with neonazis since many of them are descended from fugitive Nazi collaborators, who were given shelter by the CIA as useful assets in the fight against the Soviet Union. It is without question that having not undergone any denazification, these people still adhere to radical nationalist ideals.

Earlier on this blog, Facebook hires a member of a radical nationalist party to police its website.

Meanwhile, EU vs. Disinfo is trying to say the information that information regarding Neonazis moderating Facebook is disinformation of the Kremlin and says there isn’t any evidence to make this claim. Nothing new, this blog already reported on instances of apologetics for Neonaziism in Ukraine made by that website.