Five Years of the Collapse of Ukrainian Power in Crimea

Myrotvorets database reminds us:

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On 20 FEBRUARY 2014, THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSOR ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY. The Russian people fully supported the expansionist plans of the Russian Federation. In 2018, having chosen Putin as the president for another term, this nation has shown that they condone bloody plans and actions of its leadership.

They always get so emotional… these photos I have stolen from a certain Ukrainian Twitter account. These hysterical Ukrainians are only making Putin look good in the eyes of Russian patriots by posting stuff like this. I don’t believe he deserves this much credit.

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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: For the return of Crimea 20.02.14-18.03.14

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Sovoks are Triggered by Leninoval in Metro: Exodus

4A Games is a Ukrainian developer…

…which moved away from the country of the victorious Maidan in 2014 to the sunny Malta. They say that it is hard to attract investment in a country that fights Putler  her own citizens in the East. The game contains some subtle/or not so subtle hints of Russophobia. However, the Russian state television decided to focus on an achievement called “Decommunisation”, where you shoot Lenin’s head off.

And it looks really funny:

It is an unfortunate state of affairs that Lenin is associated with Russianness. He was nothing but a ghoul, who killed many Russians. And while I am staunchly against the Maidan and against Ukrainian nazis, when the latter began toppling Lenin statues around Ukraine, I did not feel any regrets. It is not Russophobia to remove the statue of a rootless cosmopolitan, who hated the Russian people.

By the way, did you know I used to live very near where Vladimir Lenin lived in London in his time? For a while I lived on the Great Percy Street, Lenin lived at a house on Percy Circus where this street leads.

Rise Bandera!

I have uploaded couple of new videos yesterday to my channel. They are from a demonstration in protest against a policeman, who shouted: “lie down, Bandera!”, while arresting a neo-nazi.

It was lit:

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Meanwhile, on the Prospect of Stepan Bandera in Kiev, hackers have managed to break into the computers of the Gorodok Shopping Centre, and projected a large swastika on a staircase. There are two possible culprits, vatnik prankers, or nazi prankers…

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Somebody hacked the computer of one of Kievan shopping centres and secured a picture for Russian TV.

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The hackers must be Russians? That’s an excuse of course. But are the hackers guilty of the fact that the shopping centre is on a Prospect of Stepan Bandera?

You Should Absolutely get Paid to Protest

Two recent stories from Ukraine (where else?) have prompted me to write down my opinions about street protest. In Kiev, people were offered 130-150,- HRN ($5,- USD) per hour of protest “against payed protests”, and they failed to get paid. In Odessa, people were offered a staggering 1000,- HRN per hour, and when they turned up on the main square there was nobody to greet them. You might be feeling a bit of a schadenfreude now but I will tell you why you should always demand compensation for your time in the cold.

  1. Street protests are more often than not organised in service of entities with resources that your poor ass will never see. Take for instance the Maidan, initially organised by Mustafa Nayem, a known grant eater. Mustafa is getting paid by the United States, and the European Union. The Maidan also had sponsorship of the oligarchs, those guys are billionaires. And you don’t even get your 150,- HRN?
  2. Protests are usually to the benefit of a small clique of puppet masters that you have no relation to. At the end of the day, the puppet masters, and the leaders of the protests will reap the benefits, and you will either have fond memories, or a lifetime injury. In fact, if the risks are greater, you should demand much more than the measly 150,- HRN, which in my opinion is a pisstake.
    Let me give you an example. When the USSR stopped supporting the Social Bloc countries, the Czechoslovak secret service let Václav Havel out of jail in May 1989. For several months the latter organised the opposition, which came out on 17 November. Some of the secret service guys, and members of the nomenklatura, went on to become very rich. Many people who protested, in many cases against the party and the secret service, had their heads cracked.
  3. A street protest is an illusion. Its purpose is to create a semblance of popular support, where there may not be any. The latter is certainly true of the various types of “masovka” that we see in Ukraine in the run up to the presidential elections. People should be realistic, most of the favourites are very rich people with even richer people and entities behind them, it’s not immoral to ask for compensation.

So, the moral of the story is, never sell your ass short! Demand payment! Demand payment in advance! Know that you may be there because you believe in the bullshit but the organisers are getting paid.

StopFake.org Fears the Truth

From my trolling adventures…

StopFake.org is a project started by the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, which is called to fight disinformation. But I bet in reality they are around to produce an absolutely substandard media product, and gain grants from the EU and Ukrainian taxpayers among other people.

So they featured Jakub Janda:

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Jakub Janda: StopFake has singled Russian Disinformation as the main threat to the global agenda. (whatever the latter means, be sure that StopFake and Janda are both on the payroll of the “global agenda”)

And I could not help myself, and had to tell them the truth about Jakub Janda. Janda is a homosexual pornstar, a plagiarist, and he was expelled from university for the latter offence. I am still baffled how somebody with such a biography gets to be a general of the information warfare against Russia. A rumour I heard from an insider has it though, that a large faction in the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is held by a homosexual mafia.

Anyway, I was promptly blocked by the chief of StopFake:

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In the Gas War, Ukraine is the Loser no Matter who wins

What is the gas war?

Roughly speaking, it is waged between Russia, who wants to export gas to consumers in Europe, and America, who wants to export their liquified natural gas (LNG) to consumers in Europe. There is a European consumer called Germany, who needs a lot of gas. The Germans have gone nuts, they want to replace coal and atom with windmills and mirrors. But meanwhile they need the low emissions natural gas to meet the targets they set themselves.

Some pro-Ukrainians believe Russia builds pipelines to bypass Ukraine, and thus deprive Ukraine of the revenue she makes from transit. Some hotheads out there believe Russia would then be less inclined to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and war in the east may resume. But they are fooling themselves if they think that current America’s pressure on European countries to halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is in any way intended to help Ukraine. America’s goal is to be the sole exporter of LNG to Europe, and Washington is attempting to use its political influence to achieve this goal. For this purpose, LNG infrastructure is being built around the Baltics.

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Where exactly is Ukraine in this scheme of things?

Bellingcat says Ukraine has a Nazi Problem

We have been told ever since 2013 that the claims of neo-nazi presence in Ukraine is overblown, and part of Kremlin hybrid warfare information campaign to discredit the Maidan regime…

But what do we have here? Bellingcat finds Nazis in Ukraine because the latter have been building contacts with ideologically similar individuals in the West.

Bellingcat has confirmed that in January 2016, Azov, via its online podcast, was in contact with the late Andrew Oneschuk, an imminent member of the violent American neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division. On Azov’s podcast, Oneschuk discussed issues facing Americans that wanted to join Azov, and expressed interest in learning methods of attracting youth to nationalism in America. He was encouraged to try to join Azov.

In another previously unreported case from the autumn of 2018, the political wing of Azov, the National Corps, supported an effort by Joachim Furholm, a Norwegian citizen and self-described “national socialist revolutionary,” to bring American right-wingers to Ukraine to fight against Russian aggression. The effort specifically framed participation in Ukraine’s war against Russian aggression as an opportunity for American right-wingers to acquire combat and other practical experience to be deployed later within the United States after returning home. Furholm also spoke at a political rally held by the National Corps in front of Ukraine’s Parliament in September 2018.

Evidence uncovered by Bellingcat points to recent contacts between the National Corps and alleged former U.S. armed services members who are currently in Ukraine. In one instance, an alleged U.S. Army veteran named “Alex” made an appearance on an American white nationalist podcast to comment on the ease of joining the war in Ukraine. Also, an alleged U.S. Navy veteran, “Shawn Irwood,” is currently enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and maintains contact with the National Corps. Shawn had stated his intention to join the Azov Regiment online, and was linked to the aforementioned Joachim Furholm prior to arrival in Ukraine in early 2018.

The International Secretary of the National Corps, responsible for Azov’s global strategy, told Bellingcat that the movement sought “all potential sympathizers” and “potential lobbyists” in the U.S., and hoped to “establish contacts with the American military.”

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Andreas Umland to the rescue with the trope about the low electoral support for Azov’s political ambitions. This is commonly used to create the illusion that the Ukrainian neonazis are anything important. I have discussed this argument before (I must say I am not very proud of that post). My explanation is as follows:

  1. Ukraine is a large country and you need large financial and human resources to score victory in the elections. The Azov leader, Biletskiy, is in the parliament as an independent.
  2. The major parties, and the general public in Ukraine, seem very accepting of the Ukrainian nationalist programme. That is Derussification and the Bandera cult.
  3. Many small nationalist parties may deprive each other of votes, and there are quite a few small nationalist outfits in Ukraine.

Amnesty International says Ukraine has a Nazi Problem

The human rights organisation Amnesty International has produced a report, where they criticise human rights violations in Ukraine.

I quote:

2018 was marked by a sharp surge of violent attacks against a range of individuals and groups, often in the name of patriotism and “traditional values”. Those subjected to violence come from different walks of life, and include journalists, human rights defenders, especially those working on women’s rights and the rights of LGBTI people, members of ethnic minorities – particularly Roma – and those whose political views the attackers regard as “pro-Russian”. In almost all instances, the law-enforcement authorities have been slow to react and perpetrators were rarely, if ever, brought to justice. The Ukrainian authorities have not explicitly condemned the violence, while those who perpetrate it have continued to enjoy near-total impunity. Moreover, allegations have been made by various commentators in the media, including on social media, regarding financial and other support these groups may be receiving from certain members of the authorities. Altogether, this has contributed to a feeling among the human rights community in Ukraine that members of these groups are often deliberately allowed to be above the law. This also has a chilling effect on members of Ukraine’s civil society and has discouraged them from holding or taking part in public events, and has reinforced the intimidation sought by the far-right groups who attack the relevant events.