Apparently, “Slava Ukrayini” all you need as an investor to feel at home in Ukraine. But little do you realise that this slogan comes with the “Roman salute”…
The entirety of the Ukrainian Breakfast can be watched here.
However, the slogan Honcharuk taught the audience in Davos has some rather dark history. I have covered the issue of this popular Ukrainian slogan before, so I will quote myself:
The slogan appeared in the 1930’s and was modelled on the German slogan: “Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!” that is: “Hail Hitler! Hail Victory!”. In 1939, OUN made it official at a conference in Rome. It should be noted that the Italians, and the Croatians had similar slogans. The OUN were seeing themselves as a part of the fascist international. They were literally fascist and proud of it.
So let me get this straight, is Honcharuk taking a piss?
The other day, Russian media like Zvezda.TV and Tsargrad.TV ran a story that declassified CIA documents call Bandera a “fascist” and a “spy for Hitler”…
But on a closer inspection, the document in question turns out to be a translation from a Soviet propaganda publication Sotsialisticheskiy Vestnik. However, reading through the documents on the CIA website, I came across another translation from the Soviet press. Vladimir Belyayev writes in the Literaturnaya Gazeta that the OUN sent saboteurs into the USSR in the post-War years. And then there is this…
Throughout the post war years, the “Fuehrer” of the Ukrainian nationalistti Stepan Benders., alias “Popel”, lived in Munich until he met his infamous death on the stone steps of house No.7 on Kraytmayershtrasse. The fifty year old priest’s son, from the village of Staryy Ugrinov, was cruel, greedy, ready to commit any crime for profit. He divided his time equally between the struggle for “independent Ukraine” and petty debauchery, forcing the wives of his followers and those of the “couriers” sent to the Ukraine, to cohabit with him.
It may or may not be true. Here are some photos of Bandera from around that period…
Out of the endless necrologues of Ukraine. 36 year old Maksim Trikoza aka “Voidan” was found with knife wounds near the place he lived in Vinnytsia. He was a Russian citizen, who considered himself ethnic Ukrainian, and joined the ranks of Azov after the war broke out in the Donbass.
The other day, a pogrom on the Jewish community of Uman happened, four people ended in hospital.
On Friday in Uman a group of local hooligans, around 30 people, attacked the Jews near the grave of Rebbe Nachman and beat them up. As a result of the pogrom 4 Jews ended up in hospital. The witnesses say the hooligans were armed with sticks and knives. Because of many incidents and the inaction of the police, the Jews in Uman began organising a special defence group to protect themselves from hooligans.
The fight broke out after a small altercation between one Ukrainian and the Jews, after which he called his friends to beat up the Jews.
This is not the first time something like this has happened.
In 2016, two hooligans began spraying blood in the tomb of Rebbe Nachman, and dropped a pig’s head with a swastika etched into it. And there was also a grenade attack on the tomb.
My friend sent me the following screenshot. Looks like many Russian liberals openly embrace Stepan Bandera, and the regime in Ukraine. After Ruslan Shaveddinov and Ilya Novikov, here comes Kirill Naumov.
Kirill Naumov: Volunteer of the Navalny Team, European, Orthodox Russian Nationalist, Democrat and Banderovite
There is another, even more curios text on his photo, it says in Ukrainian: “Hands off from volunteers and soldiers.” It is likely one of those campaigns that seeks impunity for Ukrainian myrmidons that fought in the East of the country. You see, many of them have PTSD and other psychological problems, and they get caught for serious crimes like robberies and murder. There exists a group of people that thinks this constitute a campaign of persecution against patriotic defenders of the motherland.
I understand some Ukrainian villager from Lvov or Cherkasy may feel strongly about this but that a Russian would put this into his profile picture suggests mental illness.
As you probably may have heard, an ally of Alexey Navalny, Ruslan Shaveddinov, was grabbed by the military, accused of dodging the draft, and sent over to Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic to do his service…
And here is why I don’t give a fuck. Ruslan is a supporter of violent neonazis in Ukraine…
I have found his tweets:
In the wake of Russian intervention in Crimea, the Russian pro-Western opposition organised a confused and cringy protest in support of the nationalist regime in Kiev.
Nobody will come they said, the Russians support Novorossiya, they said.
In fact only marginals in Moscow supported the Kiev regime…
I met @pel13132 (a photographer for liberal media), Glory to Ukraine!
“Glory to Ukraine!” is a nazi slogan. I have covered this here before.
I don’t walk around the House of the Unions without a [Molotow] cocktail.Shaveddinov is making jokes about the tragedy of 2 May 2014, when banderovite yobs literally burned alive people in Odessa.
Nemirovskaya: Go fuck yourself with your mourning for vatniks, that’s not a murder, that is natural selection, they shouldn’t have gone fighting from Pskov. Ruslan: Nemirovskaya is right.
Polina Nemirovskaya, who works for Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia, say’s one ought not to mourn the people that burned alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa because these “vatniks” (a mocking term for pro-Russian, and pro-Putin people) weren’t actually from Odessa, which is not true.
There aren’t any Odessites among the supporters of the Odessa People’s Republic.
Ruslan made this Tweet on the day of the tragedy of 2 May simply regurgitating Ukrainian nazi propaganda. Also note that the protests in Odessa did not carry a separatist message, so Odessa People’s Republic was not on the agenda.
Udaltsov: Banderovite scum are burning people in Odessa. They need to pay for that. Ruslan: Go fuck yourself.
Leftist activist,Sergey Udaltsov told to go fuck himself by Ruslan.
Comandante Yarosh, RT @euromaidan, Yarosh with the fighters of the battalion Donbass.
“Donbass” was one of the nazi militias that went to suppress the aspirations of the Donbass people.
Was McCain a president, we would not celebrate a message on the website, we would celebrate tanks in Moscow.
I guess they celebrated the victory of the Maidan in Kiev, given the date.
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