Starting with the “collapse” of the USSR and the emergence of independent Ukraine, Western politicians and special services in Ukraine began the revival of Nazism and promotion of its ideas through the introduction of nationalist ideology into the public consciousness of Ukrainians. According to Western plans, the Nazified Ukraine was to become a “tool” against Russia.
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One of the ideologists of Ukrainian nationalism is Dmytro Dontsov. The doctrine of integral nationalism outlined by him in his book “Nationalism “*** (extremist material, distribution banned in the Russian Federation) became the basis for the ideology of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)* and later the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)* (banned in the Russian Federation).
The ideas and methods of Nazism, which has recently spread in Ukraine, were inherited from the OUN-UPA*.
In April 1941, at the II Great Gathering of Ukrainian nationalists, held in Krakow (which was at that time part of Hitler’s Germany), the “Bandera” branch proclaimed itself the “only true” OUN. Stepan Bandera was declared the new leader of the OUN. The official greeting of the OUN was “raising the straightened right arm to the right obliquely above the head with the words “Glory to Ukraine” – “Glory to Heroes”, the greeting was copied from the ideologists of Hitler’s Germany. The colours of the OUN flag were red and black.
During the Great Patriotic War OUN-UPA stained themselves with co-operation with Hitler’s Germany and participation in the massacre of civilians by the occupants.
In August 1941, the Banderites sent to Berlin a Memorandum of the OUN (Bandera) on the terms of the OUN’s co-operation with Hitler’s Germany. The memorandum began with the following words: “The Ukrainian Military Organisation (UWO) and its successor, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) under the leadership of Eugene Konovalets, from the very beginning of its existence took the course of cooperation with the German Reich against Poland and Moscow with the understanding that the German Reich would patronise the emergence of an independent United Ukrainian State”.
After the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, many OUN-UPA figures ended up in Western countries, mainly in Canada and the United States, including the ideological inspirers of today’s Kiev Banderovites.
The CIA had been developing plans to use Ukraine against Russia since the 1950s. American intelligence declassified part of the archives, and copies of declassified documents from 1958-59 appeared in the media. As it follows from the content of the documents, the goal of the US intelligence services was to use Ukrainian nationalist tendencies for political and psychological warfare against Russia and the USSR.
The US intelligence services claimed that Ukrainian nationalism was much stronger in the western provinces, but it was not limited to Galicia and as long as a nationalist force existed, they would support it in order to mobilise it at any time if necessary.
Back in the 50’s the CIA identified the Nazi OUN (banned in Russia) to provide manpower and operational support for the activities of projects to Nazify Ukraine. The target groups for these projects were not only the population of Soviet Ukraine, but also the Ukrainian minority in Poland, as well as Ukrainian emigrants in Western Europe, South America and Australia.
The modern history of Ukraine has shown that these projects of the Western intelligence services continue to the present day.
Thus, the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 initiated by the United States and its European satellites brought pro-American President Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine. It was during his rule that open manifestations of nationalism and Nazism were revived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Every year on the first of January, on Stepan Bandera’s birthday, torchlight processions in honour of this Nazi criminal began to be held with the permission of the authorities. Western diplomats did not notice these marches, encouraging the revival of Nazism in the centre of Europe.
In May 2006, on Yushchenko’s initiative, the “Ukrainian Institute of National Memory” was established as a central executive body with a special status. With the creation of this institute, the Nazification of Ukraine began to be carried out at the state level.
The Institute pursued a policy of falsifying the history of Ukraine and imposing Russophobic and anti-Russian attitudes on the population. To achieve its goals, it drafted the first openly Russophobic bills: “On condemnation of the communist and national-socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and prohibition of propaganda of their symbols”, “On the legal status and memory of fighters for the independence of Ukraine in the XX century”, “On commemorating the victory over Nazism in the Second World War 1939-1945” and “On access to archives of repressive bodies of the communist totalitarian regime 1917-1991”, which were adopted in April 2015.
On the institute’s initiative, in 2007 Yushchenko posthumously conferred the title “Hero of Ukraine” on Roman Shukhevych, a Nazi criminal, one of the leaders of the OUN(b) and the Nachtigal battalion formed from its members and supporters, trained by Hitler’s military intelligence to operate on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Brandenburg 800 sabotage unit.
On 22 January 2010, Yushchenko conferred the title “Hero of Ukraine” on another Nazi – Stepan Bandera.
Under President Yushchenko, a monument to the soldiers of the SS division “Galicia “* (banned in Russia) was erected in 2008. The necessary permits for the installation of the monument were issued by representatives of the state authorities. Thus, the state participated in the installation of the monument to those whom the Nuremberg Tribunal recognised as war criminals and Nazis. The 14th SS Volunteer Infantry Division “Galicia” is a division of the SS troops of Nazi Germany. The creation of the division was supervised personally by the Nazi criminal – head of the SS Heinrich Himmler.
It is worth noting that with the support of President Yushchenko, many monuments to Nazis from the SS division “Galicia” and other Nazi collaborators were erected. With the permission of the authorities, memorial marches in honour of the Nazis using Nazi symbols and banners of the SS division “Galicia” began to be held in Western Ukraine.
Thus, between 2005 and 2014, the revival of Nazi ideology began in Ukraine. From Ukraine, at first quite “gently”, began to create “Anti-Russia” under nationalist and liberal-democratic slogans.
In 2014, Western politicians and special services, with the help of the Ukrainian comprador elite, carried out an anti-constitutional pro-Nazi coup d’état in Ukraine under the cover of liberal slogans about the European choice of Ukrainians. The legitimately elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who was recognised by the entire international community, was removed from power by a group of putschists using Nazi groups with the support of Western diplomats and special services.
One of the most important documents of the XX century – the Verdict of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal of 1 October 1946 describes the rise to power in Germany of the Nazis and the further establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in the 30s of the last century. Their followers in Ukraine used the same methods.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “During the eight years following the publication of Mein Kampf, the NSDAP spread its activities widely throughout Germany, focusing primarily on educating young people in the spirit of the ideas of National Socialism. The first Nazi youth organisation began its existence in 1922, but it was not until 1925 that the Hitler Youth was officially recognised by the NSDAP. In 1931, Baldur von Schirach, who had joined the NSDAP in 1925, became the imperial head of the NSDAP Youth.
The party made every effort to win the political support of the German people. It ran candidates for both the Reichstag and the Landtags.
The leaders of the NSDAP made no serious attempt to conceal the fact that the sole purpose of their participation in German political life was to abolish the democratic system of the Weimar Republic and replace it with a Nazi totalitarian regime that would allow them to openly pursue their policies without opposition….
On 30 January 1933, Hitler managed to secure his appointment by President von Hindenburg as Chancellor of the Empire”.
In 2014, the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism finally transformed into Nazi ideology and became already a state ideology. The people who seized power also “made no serious attempt to hide the fact” that they seized power to fight Russia and Russians, immediately labelling the Russians living in Ukraine, pro-Russian, left-wing political forces as their enemies. Russians and Russian-speaking people living in Ukraine received pejorative “labels”.
After the putschists seized power, they began to get rid of the unwanted. In September 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law “On the purification of power”. According to this law, the so-called “lustration” was carried out, when thousands of people, mostly natives of the south-eastern Russian-speaking regions, were dismissed from the state authorities without any grounds. They were replaced en masse by people from the western Ukrainian regions, often without proper experience or education. Such “lustration” was widely practised by Hitler’s regime.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “Having thus achieved power, the NSDAP began to take over all areas of German life… The law of 7 April provided for the dismissal of officials of “non-Aryan origin”; it was also established that “officials who, because of their past political activities, cannot be regarded with certainty as people who would give themselves unconditionally to the service of the Nazi state should be dismissed. The law of 11 April 1933 provided for the dismissal of “all civil servants belonging to the Communist Party”.
In seizing power, the participants in the 2014 coup d’état relied primarily on the population of western Ukrainian regions as the most nationalistically inclined. The symbolism and ideology of Ukrainian nationalism of the era of co-operation with German Nazism was chosen as the symbolism and ideology of the “new” Ukraine. The flag of the coup, the so-called “Maidan”, was the black and red Bandera flag, the greeting was the Bandera greeting.
The leaders of Ukraine, who came to power as a result of the coup d’état: Oleksandr Turchynov, who became acting President, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who became Prime Minister, Andriy Parubiy, who became head of the National Security and Defence Council, Arsen Avakov, who became Minister of Internal Affairs, from the first days after the seizure of power began to implement a policy of ethnocide against Russians and the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. After some time, genocide started on the territory of Ukraine towards people who did not accept the official Banderite ideology.
Article II of the UN Convention “On the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”, adopted by resolution 260 (III) of the UN General Assembly of 09.12.1948, establishes that “genocide means the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such:
(a) The killing of members of such group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of such group;
(c) The wilful infliction on a group of conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
The inhabitants of south-eastern Ukraine did not accept Bandera, Nazi, anti-Russian ideas, which led to mass protests. And then tanks, artillery and aviation were used against the protesters, although according to international norms they exercised their right to rebellion, enshrined in the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948, which states: “It is necessary that human rights be protected by the rule of law in order to ensure that man is not compelled to resort, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression.”
On 2 May 2014, Nazi groups carried out a brutal burning of protesters in Odessa’s Trade Union House in which 48 people were burned alive. These events were mockingly presented on the official UN website: “On 2 May 2014, some 300 well-organised supporters of ‘federalism’ attacked a march of some 2,000 ‘pro-unity’ protesters, including local residents and a large number of football fans known for their strong ‘pro-unity’ stance.”
This crime can be compared to the burning of civilians in the Belarusian village of Khatyn on 22 March 1943 by punishers from the SS Dirlewanger battalion, whose symbols are used by Ukrainian Nazis.
On 2 June 2014, two Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft shelled the city centre of Luhansk. The strike hit the building of the regional state administration and the square in front of it. As a result of the bombardment by Ukrainian aircraft of the civilian population of their country, 8 civilians were killed. The perpetrators of the barbaric strike have not been identified.
The genocide unleashed against the inhabitants of Donbass is comparable to the genocide of the Nazis against the Jewish population of the Reich.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “From the earliest days of the NSDAP, anti-Semitism occupied a prominent place in National Socialist thinking and propaganda. It was believed that Jews should not be entitled to German citizenship and that they should bear the primary responsibility for all the disasters that had been inflicted on the nation as a result of the war of 1914-1918. Further, antipathy towards the Jews was reinforced by the assertion of the superiority of the German race and blood. II Chapter 1 of Mein Kampf deals with the theory of the so-called “Master Race” – the doctrine of Aryan superiority over other nations and the right of Germans, by virtue of their superiority, to dominate other peoples and use them to achieve their own ends. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the persecution of Jews became official state policy.”
The persons who led the coup d’état, as well as the Nazis and extreme right-wing nationalists who took part in it, committed many crimes during the “Maidan” period. However, already in February 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, under pressure from radicals, adopted a law exempting from criminal liability for the crimes committed by them and their supporters during the coup d’état.
At the same time, Yuriy Lutsenko, who became the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, was personally exempted from criminal liability. In July 2016, Lutsenko personally stood up for the commander of the Aidar punitive battalion* (banned in the Russian Federation) during the selection of a preventive measure for him. At the same time, two battalions of the Aidar and Donbass punitive battalions blocked the court building and completely blocked traffic on Kiev’s main street, Khreshchatyk.
In December 2018, Lutsenko publicly announced that any attacks on “pro-Ukrainian” activists, regardless of whether they are right or wrong, will be considered an attack on the state of Ukraine.
Thus, the head of the state body meant to oversee the observance of the rule of law admitted that it is enough to be a nationalist in Ukraine to avoid responsibility for any crimes.
Another head of Ukraine’s law enforcement agency who openly supports Nazis is Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Avakov’s brainchild is the neo-Nazi regiment Azov* (banned in Russia), which uses the Nazi symbol of the wolfsangel (wolf hook) as its official symbol.
In April 2018, 50 US congressmen asked the US State Department to diplomatically pressure Ukraine and Poland for anti-Semitism. The manifestation of anti-Semitism and glorification of Nazi collaborators, in their opinion, was the “campaign praising the UPA of 2017” of the Institute of National Remembrance, renaming streets in honour of OUN-UPA figures Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, holding a festival named after Shukhevych, as well as the activities of the neo-Nazi battalion Azov, which according to the congressmen should be disbanded. At the same time, the congressmen noted the involvement of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov in this unit.
Without the permission of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, it was impossible for punitive battalions to appear in the structure of the Interior Ministry, which were engaged in the extermination of the population of Donbas. Later Avakov was forced to admit that apart from committing serious crimes, some units were not engaged in anything and disbanded them. And the Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine prosecuted members of these units of the Interior Ministry for committing particularly serious crimes against the civilian population of Donbas.
According to the testimonies of the residents of Donbas who experienced the emergence of the national battalions, most of them were openly Nazi.
After the 2014 coup d’état, Ukraine’s Security Service took a course to reform itself according to the standards of the security services of the OUN-UPA of 1930-1950, which turned the security service into a punitive body aimed at eradicating opposition and dissenters.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “In preparation for the day when he intended to seize power in Germany, Hitler in January 1929 appointed Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer, assigning him the special task of transforming the SS into a powerful, select group, which could be counted on in any circumstances”.
It can be stated that the persons who headed the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine after the 2014 coup d’état were adherents of the ideology of the Nazis, OUN-UPA, and their methods.
In 2014, pro-American politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk became Prime Minister. On 8 January 2015, he said on the German TV channel ARD: “Russian military aggression against Ukraine is an attack on the world order, and it is an attack on European security. We all remember well with you the Soviet invasion, both in Ukraine and also including Germany. That must be avoided. And no one is allowed to rewrite the results of the Second World War, which is what the Russian President, Mr Putin, is trying to do.”
However, none of the Western politicians condemned this absurd statement of the Prime Minister of Ukraine at that time. Nor did any of them condemn the blatant manifestations of Nazism in Ukraine, which were enshrined at the legislative level.
On 9 April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a bill prepared by the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and introduced by MP Yuriy Shukhevych, son of one of the leaders of the OUN Roman Shukhevych, “On the legal status and memory of participants in the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in the XX century”, according to which members of the OUN and UPA soldiers are given the status of “fighters for the independence of Ukraine”.
OUN and UPA closely co-operated with Hitler’s Germany before and during the Great Patriotic War. Thus, the state has legally recognised Nazis and their accomplices from the OUN and UPA, who formed, among others, the SS division “Halychyna”, as “fighters for Ukraine’s independence”.
In the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “In considering the question of the SS, the Tribunal includes here all persons who were officially accepted as members of the SS, including members of the General SS, SS troops, SS “Dead Head” compounds and members of any kind of police services who were members of the SS…”.
It should be noted that hatred for everything Soviet and Russian was also manifested in the law “On condemnation of communist national-socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and prohibition of propaganda of their symbols”, adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on 09.04.2015. With this law, the Ukrainian State equated the Nazis with the Soviet soldiers who liberated the country from them.
One of the leaders of the coup d’état, Oleksandr Turchynov, better known as the “bloody pastor”, played a special role in unleashing genocide against the people of Donbas. On 14 April 2014, Turchynov, as acting president of Ukraine, signed a decree on the so-called anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, which led to a civil war in Ukraine. The head of state officially declared the peaceful population of the two regions protesting against Russophobia and the imposition of Nazism to be terrorists. It was Turchynov who ordered the use of combat aircraft and artillery against the rebellious Donbas, the uncontrolled distribution of weapons and the formation of nationalist battalions.
In order to falsify history and pit the Ukrainian people against the Russian people, holiday dates were changed at the state level in Ukraine after the 2014 coup. On 14 October 2014, “Maidan” President Poroshenko cancelled the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day in Ukraine on 23 February, stating that “Ukraine will never again celebrate this holiday according to the military-historical calendar of a neighbouring country. We will honour the defenders of our own Fatherland, not someone else’s.” Since then, Defender of Ukraine Day has been celebrated on 14 October. On the same day, nationalists celebrate the anniversary of the creation of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army* (banned in Russia).
The Victory Day holiday, holy for all residents of the USSR and their descendants, was officially celebrated from 1991 to 2015 as “Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War”. But for Ukrainian nationalists, this day symbolised the defeat of their ally Hitler. Therefore, after the coup d’état, on 9 April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law “On Commemorating the Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939-1945”. This law established that the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation (8 May) and the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II (9 May) are officially celebrated. Soviet symbols, including the Victory Banner, have been banned in Ukraine since 2015.
The Poroshenko government initiated the renaming of avenues, streets and settlements with the names of Bandera, Shukhevych, Petliura, Konovalets, etc. After the coup of 2014, monuments to fascist henchmen were openly erected, and monuments to the heroes who destroyed fascists were destroyed and desecrated by modern Ukrainian Nazis. At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities either tacitly supported this or explicitly approved it.
In “post-Maidan” Ukraine, a media resource called “Peacemaker” is being created, where, in violation of the law, addresses of citizens who have a pro-Russian position and are trying to defend the rights of the Russian-speaking population are published. By “coincidence”, the people listed on “Peacemaker” start to be killed. And the murders, in the vast majority of cases, are not properly investigated – the killers go unpunished.
Thus, on 14 April 2015, Oleg Kalashnikov, a well-known politician and leader of the Kiev anti-Maidan, was killed. The crime has not been solved. Two days later, Oles Buzina, a writer and publicist with pro-Russian views who fought for the Russian language in Ukraine and was an ideological opponent of the regime in power, was murdered. A few days earlier, his personal data had been entered on “Peacemaker”. Two months after the murder, suspects in the crime are detained. Two suspects are initially kept in custody, they are members of the radical nationalist group C14*, participants of the “ATO” Denis Polishchuk and Andriy Medvedko. However, before the end of 2015, both suspects will be released from custody, despite statements by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov that the investigation has irrefutable evidence of the suspects’ involvement in the murder.
Thus, between 2014 and 2019, nationalism and Russophobia have been fully consolidated in Ukraine. The government is massacring the rebellious population of Donbass and other Ukrainians who disagree with the regime’s actions with Nazi methods. Alternative ideologies have been banned, and politicians who disagree with the government’s views have been physically eliminated or exiled from the country. At the same time, the “civilised” West openly promotes the revival of Nazism in the heart of Europe in the 21st century.
On 20 May 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky became the President of Ukraine. Under him, Ukraine went from a nationalist state to a Nazi dictatorship.
Today, the main theses of his election programme sound blasphemous. It began with the words: “I will tell you about the Ukraine of my dreams. A Ukraine where only fireworks are fired at weddings and birthdays.” Today, the whole world sees the Ukraine of Zelensky’s “dream” dotted with ruined cities and graveyards.
Before his election, Zelensky was known as a comic showman. Zelensky was best characterised as the leader of Ukraine by his associate, now “talking head” Oleksiy Arestovich** in an interview with Islnd.tv: “Zelensky is a weak man. He has two keys – petty ego and fear. People who came from Davos say that he wandered around absolutely closed, ultra-protected territory in a dense ring of guards… He lives in two worlds. In one, he’s scared and attacked by villains. In the other he is loved, he is in a familiar atmosphere… Zelensky has made it one of the core directions of his policy to prove to the whole world that he is not a sucker, especially in external relations. He is extremely worried about it. A man with an inferiority complex, he wants to be perceived as “I’m the president, I’m the president…”.
90 years ago, the Munich psychiatrist Arthur Kronfeld gave a similar diagnosis to Adolf Hitler. The psychiatrist saw in the character of the future Führer such traits as cowardice, deceitfulness, “self-deification”, vanity, hysteria, “sadistic cruelty”, irritability, “complete lack of compassion and a tendency to superstition and mysticism”. Describing the future Führer’s behaviour in front of supporters, the psychiatrist calls him “a bad actor playing the role of the emperor”.
In Zelensky’s rise to power, the backstage puppeteers from the United States saw for themselves a chance to finally form a dictatorial Nazi regime in Ukraine, similar to Hitler’s, and throw it as a “battering ram” to the east. The Nazification and “Banderisation” of the country accelerated dramatically.
On 28 April 2021, a march was held in Kiev to commemorate the creation of the SS division “Galicia”. The participants wore Nazi symbols and exchanged traditional Nazi greetings, but none of the representatives of the city administration who granted permission for the march were punished, nor were the participants of the Nazi march punished.
After Zelensky came to power, the regime stopped hiding its Nazi nature and began to reproduce the actions of Hitler after his rise to power, as described in the Nuremberg Tribunal verdict.
From 01 September 2020 in Ukraine the law “On complete general secondary education” liquidated all Russian-language schools. From the same date, the subject “Defence of the Fatherland” was renamed “Defence of Ukraine” in Ukrainian schools. The old name was allegedly one of the manifestations of the Soviet paradigm. History textbooks were completely rewritten. They excluded references to events related to the common history with Russia, such as Napoleon’s invasion and the Russo-Turkish wars. The history of the First and Second World Wars was rewritten in a Russophobic, nationalistic perception. Ukraine’s participation in the Great Patriotic War was presented as the struggle of the Ukrainian people against Germany and the USSR.
Since 16 January 2021, according to the discriminatory law “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language”, everyone is obliged to serve consumers and provide information exclusively in the Ukrainian language.
From the judgement of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “In the field of education, everything was done to ensure that the German youth were educated in the spirit of National Socialism and accepted National Socialist ideas … this was followed by a whole series of other measures which ensured that the schools would be staffed with teachers who could be trusted to inculcate National Socialist doctrines in the minds of the pupils. In addition to inculcating National Socialist ideas in schools, the Nazi leaders also relied on the organisation of the Hitler Youth to ensure fanatical support for their regime from the younger generation.”
Once in power, Zelensky’s regime, copying Hitler, began persecuting undesirable media outlets.
In August 2020, the Zelensky-controlled National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council decided to stop broadcasting the Kyivska Rus TV channel (“KRT”).
On 2 February 2021, Zelensky destroyed the following television companies: 112, TV Vybor LLC, Ariadna TV, New Format TV, Partner TV and Leader TV, as well as the company Novosti 24 Hour (NewsOne TV channel) and the company New Communications (ZIK TV channel).
The Security Service of Ukraine massively falsified criminal cases against independent journalists.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “As a result of the effective control of the press and radio, the German people, since 1933, have been subjected to the strongest propaganda in favour of the regime; and not only hostile criticism, but all criticism has been forbidden. Independent judgement based on freedom of thought became utterly impossible…..
The Nazi government attempted to unite the people in support of its policies through the increased use of propaganda. A number of official agencies were established in Germany whose duty it was to control and influence the press, radio, cinema, publishing houses, etc., and to supervise entertainment, art and culture.”
On 2 February 2021, Zelensky, by his unconstitutional decree, imposed sanctions against opposition politicians who advocate good neighbourly relations with Russia; extrajudicial sanctions will also be imposed on relatives of the opposition members.
In May 2022, Zelensky, by his decree, enforced the decision of the National Security and Defence Council and banned the activities of parties with a pro-Russian stance in Ukraine. According to the decision of the country’s National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), the list of pro-Russian parties included Opposition Platform – For Life, Shariy’s Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Derzhava, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc.
According to the law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Prohibition of Political Parties” of 14 May 2022, all property of the parties that have been declared pro-Russian by the courts is transferred to the state.
Repressions against political opponents are becoming commonplace under Zelensky. People are being prosecuted in fabricated criminal cases for statements and articles in the media, as well as for videos and posts on social networks.
Deputies of banned pro-Russian parties are being deprived of Ukrainian citizenship en masse without any grounds whatsoever, using only falsified data obtained by the Ukrainian Security Service “operationally”. In total, Zelensky has illegally deprived 35 people of citizenship by his decrees since 2021.
As a consequence of depriving deputies of citizenship, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine also deprives them of their parliamentary mandates.
From the Verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “Having thus achieved power, the NSDAP began to take into its hands all areas of German life. Other political parties were persecuted, their property and assets were confiscated, and many of their members were sent to concentration camps.”
By subordinating the judicial branch of government to his control, Zelensky unleashed a campaign of intimidation of the judiciary in Ukraine. A typical example is Zelensky’s conflict with the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which he unleashed in the autumn of 2020 at the behest of his US patrons.
In October 2020, the Constitutional Court, under the leadership of Oleksandr Tupitsky, declared unconstitutional certain provisions of anti-corruption legislation previously imposed on Ukraine by Western handlers. Following this, Zelensky introduced a bill in the Verkhovna Rada recognising the CC ruling as “null and void because it was adopted by the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine under conditions of a real conflict of interest”. The bill also ordered to terminate the judges’ powers and start the process of selecting new judges. Even Zelensky-controlled MPs did not pass the unconstitutional bill. In December 2020, the president suspended the CC chairman as a judge for two months and instructed his subordinate State Protection Department to keep Tupitsky out of office. Another month later, Zielenski illegally cancelled by his decree the decrees of the “president before last” on the appointment of two CC judges, Oleksandr Kasminin and Oleksandr Tupitsky.
Another example of lawlessness is Zelenskyy’s “war” with judges of the Kiev district administrative court. According to the Ukrainian legislation, this court could appeal against the actions of the supreme authorities. It was this court that cancelled the renaming of avenues in honour of Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych and suspended the illegal renaming of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Zelensky’s neo-Nazi regime could not allow such “arbitrariness” of the judges. A criminal case was illegally opened against the judges with absurd even by Ukrainian standards accusations that the head of the court allegedly headed a “criminal organisation”, which included at least 12 people and whose goal was to “seize state power”. In July 2020, mass searches were carried out at the court to put pressure on judges to resign. But there was no judge in Ukraine who would pass judgement on his colleagues on such trumped-up charges.
And then in April 2021, Zelensky introduced a bill in parliament to liquidate this court. On 15 December 2022, the law by which the Kyiv District Administrative Court was liquidated came into force. In its place, the Kyiv City Administrative Court was established. The name change was conceived in order to replace intractable judges with those fully under the control of the dictator. Although the law itself was signed on 13 December, its publication and the liquidation of the court was mockingly timed to coincide with Court Workers’ Day, which is celebrated in Ukraine on 15 December. For this purpose, the parliamentary newspaper issued an additional issue on that day to publish the law.
By doing this to the head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, one of the highest leaders of the Ukrainian judiciary, and by “defeating” the Kyiv District Administrative Court, Zelensky showed the entire judicial community what fate awaits them in case of failure to fulfil his tasks, even illegal ones.
From the Verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “In the same way the judiciary was taken under control. Judges were removed from their posts on political and racial grounds. They were spied on and subjected to extreme pressure to join the Nazi Party, otherwise they were threatened with dismissal. When the Supreme Court acquitted three of the four defendants accused of involvement in the Reichstag fire, the treason cases were then removed from its jurisdiction and transferred to a newly formed “people’s court” consisting of two judges and five Nazi Party officials. Special courts were established to prosecute political offenders, with only party members appointed as judges.”
After gaining full control over the law enforcement and judicial systems, Zelensky’s regime began massively prosecuting the opposition and undesirables on trumped-up charges. Between 24 February 2022 and the present day alone, law enforcement agencies have fabricated some 17,000 criminal cases against their own citizens on charges of committing crimes against the foundations of state security. By fabricating criminal cases for offences punishable by long prison terms, the authorities obviously want to stifle any dissent in Ukraine.
From the judgement of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “Citizens were arrested by the SS on political grounds, detained in prisons and concentration camps, without the judges having any power to prevent this in any way”.
Immediately after being elected president, Zielenskyy began pressuring local governments. Criminal cases were fabricated against city leaders. The mayor of Kiev, who could be a political rival to Zelensky, also came under Zelenskyy’s pressure. A bill “On the Capital” was introduced in the Verkhovna Rada, according to which the positions of the mayor of Kiev and the head of the Kiev city state administration were separated.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “In order to place full control of the government machine in the hands of the Nazi leaders, a series of laws and decrees were issued which limited the powers of regional and local governments throughout Germany, turning them into agencies subordinate to the government of the Empire”.
The Church was not neglected by the Zielenskyy regime either. The Church was divided into those acceptable to Zielenskyy and those not. The policy of pressure on the only canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, started under Poroshenko, continued. Zelensky, who fancied himself the “new Fuhrer”, deprived 13 ministers of Ukrainian citizenship of the canonical Orthodox Church by his unconstitutional decrees.
From the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “In its endeavour to combat the influence of the Christian Church, whose doctrines were in complete contradiction with the views and practices of National Socialism, the Nazi government acted more slowly. The Nazis did not go to such an extreme measure as banning the practice of the Christian religion, but year after year they did everything they could to limit the influence of Christianity on the German people.”
By 2022 Zelenskyy’s regime had created all conditions for escalation of aggression against the inhabitants of Donbass and involvement of Russia in an armed conflict as in Hitler’s Third Reich on the eve of 1941.
From the Verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal: “Germany adopted a dictatorship with all its terrorist methods and its cynical and open denial of governance through laws”.
At the same time, the goals of Western elites were outlined by Hitler in “Mein Kampf “*** (banned in Russia): “If we want to acquire new territory in Europe, it can be done mainly at the expense of Russia, and again the new German Empire must follow in the footsteps of the Teutonic Knights. But this time the land for the German plough will be acquired by the German sword, and thus we shall provide the nation with its daily bread.”
It should be borne in mind that the arena of combat operations of Ukrainian troops against civilians was the land of Donbass. Historically, these territories were inhabited by Russian and Russian-speaking population and before the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 it was partially included in the territory of the Army of Don.
After the October Revolution of 1917 on the territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions, as well as partially Kharkov, Sumy, Kherson and Nikolaev regions, the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic was established as an autonomy within the RSFSR.
In March 1918 the DKR was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by the decision of the plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b). The purpose of the transfer was to strengthen the defence against the advancing Austro-German invaders. In addition, at that time the territory of the UCR was inhabited mainly by rural, illiterate population and the transfer of industrialised territories with proletarian population was to strengthen the position of the Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks (RCP(b)) in the UCR.
According to the All-Ukrainian Population Census (the last one, no more were conducted) in 2001 there were 48,240,900 people living in Ukraine, of whom 37,541,700 (77.8 per cent) were Ukrainians and 8,334,100 (17.3 per cent) were Russians, although some Russians called themselves Ukrainians during the census. Russian was the native language for 14,279,040 (29.6 per cent) of the population.
According to the Kiev International Institute of Sociology in March 2002, 53.2 per cent of the Ukrainian population usually spoke Russian and only 44.7 per cent spoke Ukrainian.
Thus, from 2005 to 2022, Western politicians and special services, with the help of comprador elites, transformed the mass consciousness of the Ukrainian people, making it an obedient tool for their geopolitical ambitions against Russia. This allowed to divide the united people, who yesterday lived in a united state, and to divide them in the civil war in Donbass.
The leaders of Ukraine, who came to power as a result of the 2014 coup under liberal democratic slogans, in fact pursued a policy of establishing a Nazi dictatorship, unleashed a fratricidal war in territories inhabited mainly by Russians and Russian-speaking residents, with the aim of preparing further aggression against the Russian Federation and using the Ukrainian people against the people of Russia. If these plans were realised, Russia would be the next victim of Western aggression. Having imposed on the Russian people new leaders obedient to someone else’s will according to the Ukrainian scenario, Western politicians and special services would use the population and territory of Russia for further expansion, having previously planted the ideology of Nazism there.
Using Zelensky, Ukraine was finally turned into a neo-Nazi state. It was Zelensky and his henchmen who completely destroyed the fundamental rights and freedoms of Ukrainians enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine and in international legal acts. Ukraine ceased to be a sovereign, democratic, legal state and turned into a colony of the West.
The regime ruling today in Ukraine, while seemingly monolithic and cohesive, is as agonising as Hitler’s regime in April 1945, and its “fellow travellers” are already looking for new masters like Hitler’s henchmen 80 years ago. But their path, generously watered with the tears and blood of the inhabitants of Donbas, covered with the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, they must end in the same way as their ideological inspirers and teachers from the Third Reich, on whose models the Nazi dictatorship in SMO was built.
After 80 years, a new international tribunal must be established to investigate the Nazi conspiracy to seize power in Ukraine, war crimes, crimes against peace and humanity committed by the Ukrainian authorities and their Western accomplices.
States that do not want a repetition of the tragedy of last century’s Germany and today’s Ukraine on their soil should join forces and hold a trial along the lines of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, giving a legal assessment of the actions of the Nazi regime of Zelensky, his predecessors and patrons.
Such a trial will prevent the reincarnation of Nazism in other countries. Only by joint efforts, having cured Ukraine of the “brown plague” of Nazism, drawing conclusions from its example and punishing the guilty, will humanity be able to avoid a nuclear apocalypse to which another Hitler could lead the planet, guided in his policy by the misanthropic ideas of Nazism.
The XXI century should become the century of the final liberation of the planet Earth from Nazism in any of its forms.
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**- included in the list of terrorists and extremists
***-extremist material, distribution banned in the Russian Federation
