Ukraine’s protesters are often painted in as sympathetic a light as possible, pro-democracy, pro-Western martyrs being crushed under the heel of a violence crackdown, with former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko serving as their high-profile leader.
But when Klitschko went to Kiev to urge an end to the clashes between protesters and police, it was the radical “Right Sector” protesters who attacked him, as screaming crowds turned a fire extinguisher on him.
Oleh Tyahnybok and other ultranationalists have been feted by Western officials like Sen. John McCain, but their rhetoric (not to mention visual cues) are decidedly Nazi-inspired, seeing the protesters as less about ties with the EU than about asserting Ukrainian independence from a “Moscow Jewish mafia” that they believe is occupying the nation.
The group’s chain-wielding, helmet-wearing protesters have made no bones about spoiling for a fight, and come to the protests looking for excuses to hijack them toward a violent crackdown they believe will start a “revolution.”
How big the Right Sector is remains unclear, with some saying they amount to only 300 or so “committed fighters” and others putting the number deep into the thousands.
The neo-fascist factions are an image problem for the rest of the protesters, couching everything in anti-semitism and appeals to the Fatherland, but in the long run it is their desire to provoke and escalate violence that is likely the bigger concern, keeping the tense situation in Ukraine unresolvable.
From the Swedish Neo liberal fascism to Ukraine Neo and old fascism, the hooligans and anarchism to paid street garbage intellectual are the last resort for western, so called democracy, to be used in Ukraine to destroy the unity of the people.
From Sunni terrorism to Saudi Arabia and Qatari paid mercenaries to barbarians from all over the world to be used by so called, western democracy, as their last resort to destroy the independence of the Syrian nation. Such western "diplomacy" is in business of helping-making Hitlerism to grow, All that is done to destroy the independence of a nation, all that is for grabbing other nations land where Germans manufacturer can take over, where Swedish, the Danish bankers and IMF can takeover the people's right to work. Look at Balkan countries and their economical situation, look at EU and growing number of poor and homeless all over Europe and USA.
There is nothing wrong with patriotic Ukrainians wanting to maintain their sovereignty and independence from the EU-SSR, NATO or the USA. After suffering through 70 years of communism, the Holodomor of the 1930s and the US-backed "Orange Revolution", I say more power to them. If that makes them NS, then I also have no problem with that any more than President Lukashenko's government in Belarus. However, what in the world is Mr. Tyahnybok and Right Sector thinking consorting with the likes of Hanoi John? Are they just more controlled opposition?
The far right groups have been in the front lines from the beginning. They were attacking the "Berkut" group protecting government buildings, they were trying to burn the guys alive, but the cowards generals were afraid to act. Mostly they disappeared (sick, on vacation, unavailable).
Here is a Monologue of the "Berkut" (Golden Eagle) soldier I translated.
"Our Ukrainian media fabricates lies. In Donetsk, for example, nobody knows what is going on. The newspapers show garbage and invent lies about us killing peaceful civilians, and maiming protesters.
But nobody shows to you how the protesters blow us up, and burn us alive. … Disturbances started on Dec.23, but for two days media was silent. And later no station would show how at the Ministerial building the opposition played German World War Two marches and carried Nazi banners.
Nobody showed an 18 year old conscript crucified on the gates. Nobody showed a bus full of security forces stopped by protesters, when the bus driver made a decision not to plow through the crowd. The Fascists tore apart the bus. For 20 minutes we couldn't get to our friends while these "peaceful demonstrators" were pushing explosives under the guys bulletproof vests and into their boots. Nobody showed dozens of broken legs, arms, bones, burned bodies in the hospitals.. One guy was standing next to me when we were protecting the government building, and after one more wave of attackers was repelled, he quietly fell on the ground. We thought his gas mask failed (the attackers used clouds of poisonous gases), but when we took off his mask, we found an awl pushed through his throat".
There is much, much more in his letter about the government simply betraying them by ordering to stand down, for example, when the throngs were tearing apart the young conscripts within their sight.. It is hard to see young kids being torn apart, and not being able to protect them… All generals just happened to be either sick, or on vacation…
He finishes his letter by asking, "Do you still thing that the opposition is humane?!
You need to put this into an article!
You need to put this into an article!
This is how propaganda works. Even when we try to see things as they are — we cannot. So, in this case, these are people who are just IMAGE PROBLEM FOR THE REST OF THE PROTESTORS.
Why are we still pretending that there are "rest of protestors"? Numbers of these neonazis is not limited to those that are "protesting" in Kyev. The ENTIRE Galicia is with them — and all over Galicia they have taken over town halls. All over! There is only ONE kind of protestors and these belong to Svoboda ranks and Tyahnybok. END STORY. How many people have other two behind them? At best a few hundred misguided people who at FIRST did not see what is behind this. How many are for the other puppet — Jansenyk? Some old ladies, the typical soap opera admireres of Yulia Timosenko. The fist and the organization is ALL from Tyahnybok. Other then some misguided youth and unemployed looking for a tent and a meal, you do not have OTHERS. Do we really think that if those thousands on the streets are GOOD protestors, that we will not by know know it? Ukraine should have given away this region long time ago to whoever would want it. Now, they are trying to take over power, and impose their "europeaness" on Ukraine, which in their language means white power, and "right" etnicity and religion. They are catholic in the same mold as Croatian ustasa movement that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in WWII. ENOUGH ILLUSIONS.
"There is only ONE kind of protestors and these belong to Svoboda ranks and Tyahnybok. END STORY"
For someone commenting from the United States, you sure do make an awful lot of claims to absolute and certain knowledge about the composition of various groups of people around the world. Are you a telepath? Got a crystal ball or something?
There are people on the ground that communicate. Today, it is not hard. You cannot easily hide the truth. One can LIE, shamelessly, which is what media usually does. I am not talking "around the world", but Ukraine. And anyone can get information following media that is not our "mainstream". It is that simple. You can argue that there are many flavors of right, far-right and the bizzare-rigjht. But you cannot find ONE group of peacefull protestors that are demonstrating today in Ukraine. Not ONE. Not one leader of the protest that would own this fanthom group of "peacefull" protestors. And should such a thing exist, they would have been by now hoisted to the conference in Munich. Instead, we have the trio — of which only ONE counts.
Your high and mighty attitude towards the information you do not like, is telling.
"I am not talking 'around the world', but Ukraine"
And yesterday, you were talking about Syria, where you were claiming to know that every last man Jack who isn't on the government's side, without exception, is a Salafist jihadist.
You claiming to know a) everything about b) everyone is not "information." It's just you claiming to know things you have no way in the world of knowing.