{"id":43643,"date":"2014-06-16T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=43643"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:45","slug":"ukraines-kiev-regime-is-not-officially-a-neo-nazi-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/06\/ukraines-kiev-regime-is-not-officially-a-neo-nazi-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Kiev Regime Is Not \u201cOfficially\u201d a Neo-Nazi Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nazisme-Ukraine-400x267\"<\/a>Do they know who they are?<\/p>\n

Do we know who they are?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

There are \u201cultra-conservatives\u201d in the Kiev government but \u201cthey are not Neo-Nazis.\u201d According to the Western media,\u00a0<\/em>it\u2019s all part of \u201ca relentless Kremlin-driven propaganda offensive that uses World War II-era terms and imagery\u201d.<\/p>\n

The alternative media, however, has acknowledged that the Kiev regime is \u201ca loose Centre-Right coalition\u201d integrated by two Neo-Nazi parties (Svoboda and Right Sector)\u00a0\u201cbut it is not a Neo-Nazi government\u201d. Both Svoboda and Right Sector display Nazi emblems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Is it a loose coalition?\u00a0 If a government were to officially display Nazi emblems, does that not suggest that the government is committed to Nazi ideology?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

When the Kiev regime \u201cofficially\u201d displays Nazi emblems to identify entities of their National Security and Military apparatus one would normally assume that it is a Neo-Nazi government. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Below is the Nazi emblem of the National Guard\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>[\u041d\u0430\u0446\u0456\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430 \u0433\u0432\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0456\u044f \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438] which is defined as Reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They operate under <\/em>the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.\u00a0 The National Guard is part of the so-called \u201cInternal Troops of Ukraine.\u201d The emblem is a stylized swastika (see below).<\/p>\n

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Imagine what would happen if the US National Guard were to display swastika-like symbols.<\/p>\n

Of significance, the National Guard of Ukraine<\/strong> is directly financed by the Obama administration, with a view to protecting American style democracy in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Unknown to the American public, the US government is channeling financial support, weapons and training to a Neo-Nazi entity.<\/p>\n

Nobody in America knows about it because the use of the words \u201cNeo-Nazi\u201d and \u201cFascist\u201d in relation to Ukraine is a taboo. The have been excluded from the lexicon of investigative reporting. In media reports they have been replaced by \u201cUltra-conservative\u201d \u201cExtreme Right\u201d and \u201cNationalist\u201d.<\/p>\n

Another entity \u2013which is part of The Ukraine National Guard\u2013 is The Azov Battalion<\/strong> (\u0411\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0439\u043e\u043d \u0410\u0437\u043e\u0432). The Azov Battalion <\/strong>-which displays the Nazi SS emblem\u2013 (below left) is described by the Kiev regime as \u201ca volunteer battalion of territorial defense\u201d. It\u2019s a National Guard battalion under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.\u00a0 Officially based in Berdyank on the Sea of Azov, it was formed by the regime to fight the opposition insurgency in Eastern and Southern Ukraine. It is also financed by the US administration.<\/p>\n

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These militia bearing the Nazi SS emblem are sponsored by Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Internal Affairs, equivalent to America\u2019s Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

They are casually referred to as \u201cFreedom fighters\u201d.<\/p>\n

Its all for a good cause. \u201cDemocracy is the endgame\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the words of the New York Times, \u201cThe United States and the European Union have embraced the revolution here [Ukraine] as another flowering of democracy<\/strong>, a blow to authoritarianism and kleptocracy in the former Soviet space.\u201d<\/em> (NYTimes.com<\/a>, March 1, 2014).<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that \u201csupport\u201d to the formation of a government in the Ukraine with \u201cNeo-Nazi leanings\u201d does not in any way imply the development of \u201cfascist tendencies\u201d within the White House, the State Department and the US Congress.<\/p>\n

Scroll down for Selected Images of the Azov Battalion \u201cFreedom Fighters\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal and Editor of the globalresearch.ca website. He is the author of <\/em>The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and <\/em>America\u2019s \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d(2005). His most recent book is entitled <\/em>Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011).<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are \u201cultra-conservatives\u201d in the Kiev government but \u201cthey are not Neo-Nazis,\u201d says the Western media. The alternative media says that the Kiev regime is integrated by two Neo-Nazi parties (Svoboda and Right Sector) \u201cbut it is not a Neo-Nazi government\u201d. When the Kiev regime \u201cofficially\u201d displays Nazi emblems to identify entities of their National Security and Military apparatus one would normally assume that it is a Neo-Nazi government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balkans-eastern-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}