Heinrich Himmler inspecting troops of the 14th Waffen SS Division (Galicia)
COMMENT: Before delving into “Austerity Equals Fascism, Part II” it may be useful to highlight an instructive article from the german-foreign-policy.com newsletter, which feeds along the bottom of the front page of this website.
The competition for the European football (soccer) championship, leading up to the World Cup, is underway in the Ukraine. The location for this event has aggravated tensions between Poland and the Ukraine over the massacres of Polish nationals committed during the Second World War by the OUN/B, a Ukrainian fascist organization that allied with the Third Reich.
Supplying personnel to the Einsatzgruppen (mobil death squads) and the 14th Waffen SS Division (Galician), the OUN/B has etched a bloody name into history running from the period between the World Wars, through World War II and the covert operations of the Cold War and its aftermath.
In particular, the organization has been deeply involved with covert operations and figures into the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, as well as the de-stabilization of the Soviet Union during the climactic phase of the Cold War. With a profound presence in the GOP’s Ethnic division, as well as the contemporary Ukrainian political infrastructure, the OUN/B is anything but an historical relic.
It is in the context of the OUN’s promotion of ceremonies and awards that celebrate and distort the organization’s fascist past that the Polish protest of OUN-related activities is to be examined.
The Ukraine is considering declaring July 11 to be a commemoration of OUN/B military actions against Polish citizens during the war, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Poles!
In the past we have noted that Ykaterina Chumachenko, head of the OUN/B’s leading front organization in the U.S. and Ronald Reagan’s Deputy Director of Public Liaison, went on to marry Viktor Yuschenko and become First Lady of the Ukraine after the “Orange Revolution.”
With the Yuschenko regime in power, OUN/B founder Stephan Bandera was named a hero of the Ukraine. As we see below, Roman Shukhevych was also granted that honor. Shukhevych lead the OUN/B-staffed Einsatzgruppe “Nightingale” in its liquidation of the Lvov Ghetto! (Lvov has also been known as Lemberg and Lodz at various times in its recent history.)
Roman Shukhevych: “Hero of the Ukraine”
(Worth noting in passing is the fact that the SS leader of the Nightingale group in its liquidation of the Lvov Ghetto was Theodor Oberlander, who became a West German Minister, in charge of the “expellees”–vertriebene groups. Forced to resign after his role in the Lvov massacre became public, Oberlander was deeply involved with recruiting Muslim combatants who had fought for the Third Reich on behalf of the Federal Republic’s intelligence services, as we saw in FTR #721.)
Oberlander also joined General Charles Willoughby’s International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture, an international fascist intelligence network that included Nelson Bunker Hunt of the ultra right-wing Hunt family. (Hunt was involved with attempting to corner the silver market in the early 1980’s, a gambit in which he conspired with Ali bin Mussalim, who managed the Al Qaeda account at Bank Al-Taqwa, an account that had an unlimited line of credit. ICDCC founder Willoughby was Douglas MacArthur’s top intelligence officer and was a German-born fascist and admirer of Francisco Franco.)
“Between Moscow and Berlin (IV)”; german-foreign-policy.com; 6/06/2012.
EXCERPT: Just a few days before the Soccer World Cup is scheduled to open, a reminder of massacres, carried out by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, has created dissonance between the Ukraine and Poland. In Warsaw, government politicians are demanding that Kiev finally put a stop to public commemorations of Ukrainian militia fighting on Nazi Germany’s side. They were responsible for gruesome murders of Poles in World War II. One of those referred to, is the Nazi collaborator, Stepan Bandera, a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose militia, for example, attacked a total of 99 Polish villages, massacring countless inhabitants on July 11, 1943. Bandera is honored with numerous memorials, particularly in western Ukraine, where the imprisoned ex-Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko has her electoral backing. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, the OUN, founded with Berlin’s support in 1929, evolved into the main Ukrainian nationalist political organization. On several occasions following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, it sought statehood for a secessionist Ukrainian nation under German dominion. The massacres were carried out against the Polish population, especially Jews. Most recently, the memory of numerous Ukrainians’ collaboration with the Nazis was re-awakened by the German trial against the former Ukrainian concentration camp guard, John Demjanjuk
Massacre of Poles
As the governing PSL party’s parliamentarian in the Sejm, Franciszek Stefaniuk explained, the Ukraine should face up to the commemorations of anti-Polish massacres by numerous Ukrainian Nazi collaborators in the Second World War. This is in reference to crimes, such as the murders on July 11, 1943, when Ukrainian militia engaged in a coordinated offensive against 99 Polish villages, killing thousands of inhabitants, says Stefaniuk.[1] Stepan Bandera, one of the commanders of the militia, is still celebrated today in the West Ukraine with numerous memorials. Warsaw demands that a stop be put to this. Declaring July 11, the day in 1943, when the Poles were slaughtered, an official day of commemoration is now being considered. This would refurbish the memory of Ukrainian collaborationist activities, for example, of the OUN, the most important of the organizations seeking Ukrainian statehood at the time.
The Spirit of the Leadership
The founding of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in Vienna in early 1929 had been prepared at a 1927 Ukrainian nationalists’ conference in Berlin. The Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) was also a participant at the Berlin conference. The UVO had its headquarters in Berlin and had undergone several clandestine training programs provided by the German Reichswehr.[2] In the 1920s, it had repeatedly engaged in terrorist campaigns and carried out attacks in Poland. According to the Polish intelligence service, six German soldiers were also present at the OUN’s founding conference.[3] Throughout the years of its existence, while, according to one of its commanders, “the democratic spirit” was replaced by “the spirit of leadership and the adulation toward the authority of the leadership,“[4] the OUN remained loyal to the Nazi government, even though the latter was occasionally forced to publicly distance itself from the former, for example after OUN terrorists assassinated the Interior Minister of Poland June 15, 1934. In any case, in 1939, the OUN had very close relations with the German Wehrmacht and organized a small unit of exiled Ukrainians for their engagement in the invasion of Poland. They were disappointed at not being allowed by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to march into Lwów (which had been Lemberg and later Lviv). The OUN began instead to repeatedly massacre Polish civilians throughout the war. These massacres are today the subject of Polish protests.
Hero of the Ukraine
Once the Germans invaded the Soviet Union June 22, 1941, OUN’s Ukrainian militia, or at least its “Nightingale Battalion,” could make good on not having been able to march into Lwów. Under the command of Theodor Oberländer,[5] who later was a West German minister, the Nightingale Battalion participated not only in the invasion of that town, but was also involved in the deadly pogroms against Lwów’s Jewish community. That German/Ukrainian massacre left thousands dead. Nazi anti-Semites could count on the support of their collaborators. As soon as the Germans occupied Poland, the OUN declared “open season” on the Jewish population. “Alongside the German authorities, our militia is now arresting numerous Jews,” the OUN propaganda office in occupied Lwów reported to Berlin, July 28, 1941. “The Jews are using all means to defend themselves from liquidation.” The OUN and its troops continued anti-Semitic massacres in the following years.[6] The memory of the common front with the Germans in the war is still alive, at least in the western Ukraine. October 12, 2007, the pro-western president Viktor Yushchenko declared post-mortem the “Nichtingale” commander, Roman Shukhevych, a “Hero of the Ukraine.”
Under German Protection
The veneration that the OUN continues to enjoy in sectors of the western Ukrainian population can be also be explained by efforts to achieve Ukrainian statehood on the territory of the occupied Soviet Union under German hegemony — exactly as it was attempted back at the end of World War I.[7] . . . .
The Future: Technology, Theocracy and the Thousand Year Reich
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/29/Clinton-Ukraine-Tymoshenko-anti-Semitism
Jewish Leaders Blame Hillary Clinton For ‘Legitimizing’ Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Party
by Ben Shapiro 29 Oct 2012
Israel has expressed “deep concern” at a political breakthrough by an extremist party in Ukraine that is well known for its attacks on Jews and foreigners, and which managed to win a large number of parliamentary seats for the first time on Sunday thanks to an election pact with controversial opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party. The opposition was also boosted by the tacit support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton last week penned an op-ed in The New York Times praising Mrs. Tymoshenko, who in turn joined forces with the anti-Semitic Svoboda Party.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wrote on October 27, “Israel is concerned by the recently signed coalition agreement between the ‘Batkyvshchyna’ party and the extremist ‘Svoboda’ party in Ukraine. Antisemitic insults by ‘Svoboda’ have caused outrage on number of occasions both in Ukraine and in Israel. The ‘Svoboda’ leader has praised the fight ‘against kikes and dirty Russians.’”
One prominent Jewish leader, who asked to remain unnamed, says that Clinton’s New York Times op-ed ripping the current Ukrainian administration has “created a neo-Nazi Frankenstein by issuing a de facto endorsement of Mrs. Tymoshenko and her choices.”
The Svoboda Party is led by Oleg Tyagnibok, who has suggested that Ukraine is occupied by “Yids and Russians,” as well as making statements about “kikes.” An activist of Svoboda and a candidate for mayor of Lviv in the 2010 elections, Yuri Mikhalchishin, last year called on supporters to use the methods of Hamas. He also called the Holocaust as a “bright period” in the history of Europe and declared the state of Israel “illegitimate.”
On Sunday, Tymoshenko’s opposition party ran in an election alliance with the extremist Svoboda Party, which for the first time broke through the 5% minimum vote barrier, achieving dozens of seats; all in all, Svoboda received around 11% of the national vote according to exit polls.
Now, top Jewish leaders are calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pressure Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a retraction of her support for Tymoshenko. President Obama has, in the past, spoken out strongly against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial: “We know that evil has yet to run its course on earth .... To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, who perpetrate every form of intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, and more.” So, too, has Prime Minister Netanyahu: “The threat to my country cannot be overstated. Those who dismiss it are sticking their heads in the sand. Less than seven decades after 6 million Jews were murdered, Iran’s leaders deny the Holocaust of the Jewish people, while calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state. Leaders who spew such venom should be banned from every respectable forum on the planet. Now, there’s something that makes the outrage even greater. And you know what that is? It’s the lack of outrage. Because in much of the international community the calls for our destruction are met with utter silence.”
That silence continues from the State Department with regard to Ukraine.
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58338
Fatherland and Freedom
2012/10/30
KIEV/BERLIN
(Own report) — A CDU Ukrainian partner organization has announced its close cooperation with an extremist right-wing party. As reported from Kiev, the “Batkivschyna” (Fatherland) Party — in which CDU ally Yulia Tymoshenko is playing a leading role — is planning to form a parliamentary coalition with the “Svoboda” (“Freedom”) Party. Svoboda stands in the tradition of Nazi collaborators and internationally is affiliated with Hungary’s neo-fascist “Jobbik” Party. Svoboda won 8.3 percent of the votes in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It is not yet certain, whether the CDU’s second partner in Kiev, world heavyweight titleholder Vitali Klitschko and his “UDAR” Party will join the coalition. This cooperation will not be the first time that extremist right-wing forces have been integrated into the pro-Western Ukrainian opposition. Similar alliances had already emerged during the “Orange Revolution” in late 2004.
Germany’s Partners
Following the parliamentary elections, President Viktor Yanukovych’s “Party of the Regions” will continue to hold the majority in a coalition with the Communist Party in the Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada. According to preliminary results, the “Party of the Regions” had received 35.06 percent and the Communist Party advanced considerably reaching 14.92 percent. The ” Batkivschyna” (“Fatherland”) Party of Yulia Tymoshenko, the politician courted by the West, remains the strongest party of the opposition with 21.95 percent of the vote. With 12.87 percent, Vitali Klitschko’s oppositional “UDAR” entered parliament for the first time. Tymoshenko is closely cooperating with the CDU. Some CDU politicians even claim that the Konrad Adenauer Foundation had charged the world heavyweight champion Klitschko with the organization of a Ukrainian Christian Democratic party. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.[1]) The “Svoboda” (“Freedom”) Party is part of the opposition. With 8.31 percent, it could, for the first time, overcome the five percent hurdle to enter the Ukrainian parliament.
Openly Neo-Fascist
Svoboda evolved in 2004 from an older, openly neo-fascist organization, the “Social-National Party of the Ukraine” (SNPU). Svoboda replaced the SNPU symbol — a reflected wolf hook — with a stylized trident. Experts explain that “the transformation of the appearance was undertaken while maintaining SNPU’s basic ideological principles.” This camouflage has permitted Svoboda “to dissociate itself, in the public eye, from its openly neo-fascist past” while holding on to its extremist right-wing supporters.[2] The party achieved its political breakthrough March 15, 2009, when it was elected to the West Ukrainian Oblast Ternopil (parliament) with 34.69 percent of the votes, taking 50 of the 120 seats in the legislature. It is participating in the efforts of several extremist right-wing parties throughout Europe to found a continental umbrella organization. Among the members of the “Alliance of European National Movements” are the neo-fascist Hungarian Jobbik, France’s Front National (FN) and the British National Party (BNP).
Renaissance of Collaborators
Svoboda is directly drawing on the tradition of West Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, who, fighting on the German side in the Second World War, had carried out numerous massacres in the occupied Soviet Union. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.[3]) The party considers itself to be “the modern day equivalent of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN), according to research published by the political scientist Andreas Umland.[4] And yet, the OUN, which was founded in close collaboration with German authorities,[5] had been simply “one of the diverse forms of international fascism” — “similar to other Central European classical fascisms, such as the Slovak Hlinka Guards and the Croat Ustashi.” Their renaissance — in the form of the Svoboda Party — corresponds to the renaissance of other organizations in the tradition of Nazi collaborators, for example the Hungarian Jobbik Party,[6] the Belgian Vlaams Belang [7] or the Austrian Freedom Party [8]. The renaissance of collaborators coincides with the imposition of a new, widely accepted, German predominance over Europe.[9]
Right-Wing Coalition
Already before parliamentary elections were held, Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna Party had begun comprehensive cooperation with the Svoboda Party. As a first step, the two parties reached agreements on where their respective candidates would seek majority mandates — reaching an agreement not to run against one another in the same circumscription. Within the framework of these accords, Tymoshenko’s electoral organization ceded 35 circumscriptions to Svoboda. About ten days before elections were held, Batkivschyna and Svoboda agreed to form a coalition in the Verkhovna Rada, should Svoboda win entry into the legislature. Kiev has confirmed that the coalition will now be established, and that Klitschko is considering bringing his party into the coalition. But Klitschko, for the moment is having it be known that he detects a “right-wing radicalism” in Svoboda and therefore is having certain “misgivings.“[10] Some of the German media organs, which, for years, have been supporting the opposition in the Ukraine, have now begun to shy away from this assessment. Often, Svoboda is no longer being characterized as “right-wing extremist” or “right-wing radical,” but it is merely being mentioned “that its critics consider it to be right-wing radical.“[11]
Anti-Semites
One could already observe the integration of extremist right-wing forces into the ranks of the Ukrainian pro-western opposition during the “Orange Revolution” in late 2004. For example, the “Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists,” (KUN) had been included in the electoral alliance “Our Ukraine Block,” of Viktor Yushchenko, who later became president. The KUN was founded in 1992 by emigrants returning from their exile in West Germany.[12] Yushchenko, himself, had supported a journal, whose publisher had expressed his belief that the Ukraine was being ruled “by a small group of Jewish oligarchs,” who were “economically and politically in control.“[13] Yushchenko’s candidacy, in turn, was supported by the militant anti-Semitic UNA-UNSO organization. In fact, extremist right-wing milieus, for years, have been part of the pro-western spectrum particularly in the West Ukraine. One of their main motivations is hatred of Russia. Already in 2004, Berlin had accepted them as its covert allies to help weaken Moscow’s influence on Kiev.
Please read also Between Moscow and Berlin, The Boxer’s Punch and Between Moscow and Berlin (III).
[1] see also Der Schlag des Boxers (II)
[2] Anton Schechowzow, Andreas Umland: Der verspätete Aufstieg des ukrainophoben Rechtsradikalismus in der postsowjetischen Ukraine — Teil II; ukraine-nachrichten.de 28.10.2012
[3] see also Zwischen Moskau und Berlin (IV) and Zwischen Moskau und Berlin (V)
[4] Andreas Umland: Der ukrainische Nationalismus zwischen Stereotyp und Wirklichkeit; ukraine-nachrichten.de 11.10.2012
[5] see also Zwischen Moskau und Berlin (IV)
[6] see also The New Era of Ethnic Chauvinists
[7], [8] see also The Collaborator’s Tradition
[9] see also Europe’s Chancellor, The Next Crisis Victory and Deutsche Führung
[10] Parlamentswahl wirft Ukraine zurück; http://www.dw.de 29.10.2012
[11] Erfolg für die Opposition zeichnet sich ab; http://www.faz.net 28.10.2012
[12] see also Zwischen Moskau und Berlin (V)
[13] see also Antisemitische “Kultur”