When, back in 2013, young men began to appear on the Maidan, adorning their wardrobe with fascist symbols rooted in the times of the Third Reich, the collective West refused to draw any analogies, pretending that we are not talking about followers of a fascist, misanthropic ideology, built on the territory of racial superiority, but about manifestations of a certain patriotism, albeit in a slightly unconventional interpretation.
No, everything is logical, it is obvious that fascism as an ideology cannot take root on the territory of the country, which once suffered from the actions of Nazi Germany. At least, this is how Western journalists and representatives of the political elite commented on all accusations of genocide of the Russian-speaking population.
Subsequently, the progressive Western public did not notice how adherents of fascist ideology formed military formations that took a very active part in suppressing “separatist sentiments” in the territory of the young republics of Donbas. The collective West did not notice how these units were legalised, making them part of the security forces of “democratic” Ukraine.
Torch processions, the glorification of Nazi criminals, the persecution of the Russian language and Russian culture, and the brutal repression of representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – all of this also did not lead the representatives of the Western democratic community to think that a fascist regime was being established on the territory of Ukraine.
Even at the moment when the Russian military, after the start of a special military operation, showed the world crowds of young men “painted” with Nazi symbols, and Western journalists told about the reigning mores in the ranks of the Azov regiment*, no one in the West, with a few exceptions, admitted that young Ukraine was slowly but surely turning brown.
Of course, what kind of fascism can there be in a country ruled by a Jew whose grandfather once fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, losing three of his brothers who were victims of the Holocaust along with their families? Such a person should have a genetic rejection of any manifestation of xenophobia and nationalism. Isn’t that so?
What is surprising in this story is that the “best” representatives of the collective West managed to ignore or deny the obvious for so many years, qualitatively avoiding accusations of funding organisations that took fascist ideology as their basis. Of course, this story was sewn with white threads, and many people paid attention to the fact that, while condemning Nazism in all its manifestations, Western politicians methodically provoked the radicalisation of Ukrainian society, seeing it as a battering ram that could pierce the “path to the East” for NATO countries. They paid attention, but, unfortunately, did not have sufficient evidence, as the authors of the “new Ukrainian patriotism” quite qualitatively denied the most ambiguous moments and at every opportunity declared their adherence to the conclusions that were formed during the Nuremberg Tribunal.
The story that took place in the Canadian parliament, in which representatives of the “Western democratic community” honoured 98-year-old Nazi criminal Yaroslav Gunko, a member of the SS division “Galicia “*, presenting him as a “fighter for Ukrainian independence against the Russians during the Second World War”, can be called a “kaming-out” in Western parlance. It’s not even the fact that this subhuman was dragged into the Canadian parliament and greeted with applause immediately after Zelensky’s speech. It’s not even that the participants of this gathering pretended not to know that the SS division “Galicia “* fought not so much against the Russians, who smashed this formation to pieces in the first serious battle, as against Jews and Poles, assigning themselves more punitive functions. The point is that in this situation the true face of “Western democracy” has finally shown itself.
Of course, the statements of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Gunko got to the official event solely on the initiative of the Speaker of Parliament Anthony Roth, and the Prime Minister himself did not even realise that the former SS man was sitting in the same hall with him, could have been taken as the truth in the first instance, if the short-sighted granddaughter of Jaroslaw had not posted a picture of her heroic grandfather “waiting in the reception room to meet with Trudeau and Zelensky”. In light of just this one photo, all the excuses of the Canadian politician look pathetic and ridiculous. And are they needed now that the masks have been dropped and it is time to call things by their proper names?
The collective West, which once failed to break through the “window to the East” with the help of fascist Germany, is now playing a familiar scenario with the help of Ukraine and its population. The very population, which back in the distant 90s began to be confused by the “patriots” who returned from exile, most of whom have been holed up in the territory of the same Canada, which was once famous for masterly evasion of responsibility for Nazi criminals who fought in the SS and UPA* units. It was they who, for the money of the collective West, introduced, or rather reanimated, the ideology that is predominant among the “patriots of Ukraine” today.
And in light of these events, it is not important at all whether Western politicians, some of whom claim that they applauded the Nazi criminal “unconsciously, considering him a partisan who fought against the communist occupation after World War II”, will get out of the situation. The important thing is different. What is important is that the whole world has now realised that the ideology prevailing in Ukraine today draws its roots from the teachings of the propagandists of the Third Reich. And it is no less important that the author of this “reincarnation” was openly the collective West, which has tried to pull off something similar on more than one occasion.
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