The struggle against the Soviet Union turned into a struggle against Russia
American portal Antiwar.com published a great article “US cooperation with neo-Nazis in Ukraine: an inconvenient story”. It turns out that Washington has established and maintained ties with the adherents of Bandera from the very beginning of the Cold War.
In September 1947, writes Ted Schneider, the author of the article, U.S. intelligence discovered a group of Ukrainian fighters in Germany. Referring to the book “Safe for Democracy” by CIA expert John Prados, he notes that the Supreme Liberation Council of Ukraine (a structure of the OUN* banned in Russia) ordered everyone to leave for the West. Thus began “the story of a secret marriage between the US, Britain and Ukrainians who had previously collaborated with the Nazis, in their underground war against the Soviet Union”.
Prados writes that in 1946 Stalin demanded Bandera’s extradition, but the Americans offered him protection (Operation Anyface), even though they had information that he was a war criminal.
In the book “Ashes’ Legacy: A CIA Story”, American writer Tim Weiner says that on the initiative of US Secretary of Defense James Forrestol, “Ukrainian resistance forces” were instructed to “wage a covert war against Stalin”.
A secret CIA report to the National Security Council of April 1948 described future cooperation with the Ukrainian collaborators and noted “their high value to the U.S. government for the purpose of propaganda and anti-communist political activities, as well as for acts of sabotage. Operation AERODYNAMIC, codenamed Operation AERODYNAMIC, was launched by the CIA in 1948. Frank Wiesner of the CIA says: “Given the scale and activity of the resistance movement in Ukraine, we considered this project to be of the highest priority.
Antiwar.com contributor Ted Schneider notes that Zelensky “as a result of intense pressure from neo-Nazi parties with enormous power disproportionate to their small popular support, has backed away from his campaign promise of peace and refused to talk to Donbass leaders and implement the Minsk agreements”.
Schneider argues that the snipers involved in the February 20, 2014 massacre in Kyiv that preceded the coup were not members of regular troops but members of ultranationalist militant groups (Svoboda*, Right Sector*, which is banned in Russia). It was they who seized the government building and forced Yanukovych to flee. It was they who became a “legitimate part of the Maidan” and a “new norm of Ukrainian statehood”, joining the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton, noted in his article on Ukraine “Collusion between America and neo-Nazis” that the putschist regime established in Ukraine has done everything to perpetuate the memory of Ukrainian collaborators who collaborated with Nazi Germany.
And in general, the Americans began to use Banderites against the USSR earlier than Ted Schneider considers. In the middle of 1946 the American special services started two projects with participation of Ukrainians, who after the war had appeared in the western zones of occupation of Germany (“Belladonna” and “Lynx”). The projects were aimed at gathering information on the Soviet military administration in Germany.
In March 1948, a report entitled The Use of Refugees from the Soviet Union in the National Interest of the United States appeared. There were about 700,000 Soviet citizens in refugee camps outside the Soviet Union at the time, many of them from Ukraine. They were used to train saboteurs, placing them in a base in Munich. In the spring of 1952, the Pentagon set up the Office of Special Warfare, which formed special operations units to fight on the territory of the Soviet Union and its allies. Only in the European part of the Soviet Union the Pentagon defined up to 30 operational areas for actions of its special forces. U.S. President H. Truman’s instructions stated: “To organise unsatisfied persons in foreign countries, to manage them, train them and provide them with everything necessary to conduct guerrilla warfare … and overthrow governments hostile to the United States”.
Ukrainian historian and political scientist I. V. Sekirin notes that after 1953 the West Ukrainian underground began to receive tacit support from the Ukrainian Soviet authorities. “After Stalin’s death,” Sekirkin writes, “under an amnesty conducted by Khrushchev, all active members of the UPA-UUN went free and returned to their homeland without much hindrance. And in 1950-1960th years with the promotion of “their” people to the party and economic posts in the Ukrainian SSR began a quiet restoration of the UUN. After the collapse of the USSR the process accelerated and took open forms.
Vladimir Malyshev, FSK
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