The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.
You might think a story about modern-day Nazi storm troopers attacking a European city without mercy would merit front-page coverage across the Western media. But not when the Nazi paramilitaries are fighting for the US-backed Ukrainian government and are killing ethnic Russians.
The US-backed Ukrainian government is knowingly sending neo-Nazi paramilitaries into eastern Ukrainian neighborhoods to attack ethnic Russians who are regarded by some of these storm troopers as 'Untermenschen' or subhuman.
Recently, one eastern Ukrainian town, Marinka, fell to Ukraine's Azov battalion as it waved the Wolfsangel flag, a symbol used by Adolf Hitler's SS divisions in World War II.
The Azov paramilitaries have fought key battles in the attack on Donetsk, one of the remaining strongholds of ethnic Russians opposed to the Kiev regime that overthrew elected President Viktor Yanukovych last February.
But it's Putin the West criticizes
Yet, despite this extraordinary reality - modern-day Nazi storm troopers slaughtering Slavic people in eastern Ukraine - the Obama administration, and EU governments, continue to concentrate criticism on Russia for sending a convoy of humanitarian supplies to the embattled region.
Suddenly, the US administration's rhetoric about a "responsibility to protect" civilians has gone silent.
This same hypocrisy has permeated nearly everything said by the US State Department and reported by the mainstream US news media since the Ukraine crisis began last year. There was fawning coverage of the Maidan protesters who sought to overthrow Yanukovych and then an immediate embrace of the 'legitimacy' of the regime that followed the Feb. 22 coup.
As part of this one-sided US narrative, reports about the key roles played by neo-Nazi activists and militias were dismissed as "Russian propaganda".
A few rare chinks of light
But the ugly reality has occasionally broken through the blinders of the Western press. For instance, on Sunday, in the last three paragraphs of a long article about the Ukraine conflict, the New York Times reported that the Ukrainian military strategy has been to pound rebel-held cities from afar and then turn loose paramilitary forces to carry out "chaotic, violent assaults".
"Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag." [See Consortiumnews.com's 'NYT Discovers Ukraine's Neo-Nazis at War'.]
Actually, the Azov fighters do more than wave a Swastika-like flag. They favor the Wolfsangel flag of Hitler's SS divisions, much as some of Ukraine's neo-Nazis still honor Hitler's Ukrainian SS auxiliary, the Galician SS.
The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.
A Ukrainian hero hailed during the Maidan protests was Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera whose paramilitary forces helped exterminate Jews and Poles.
Yet, this dark side of the Kiev regime generally gets ignored by the mainstream US and EU media despite the fact that the idea of modern-day Nazi storm troopers wreaking havoc on Slavic 'Untermenschen' would seem like a very juicy story.
But it would destroy the white-hat / black-hat narrative that the State Department and the MSM have built around the Ukraine crisis, with the Kiev regime in the white hats and the ethnic Russian rebels and Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing the black hats.
It might be hard to sell the American people on the notion that neo-Nazis waving an SS flag and ranting about "Untermenschen" deserve white hats.
Kiev's tolerance of neo-Nazis
More details about the Azov battalion's role in the fighting were reported in the UK's conservative Daily Telegraph. In a somewhat sympathetic article, Telegraph correspondent Tom Parfitt wrote that
"In Marinka, on the western outskirts, the [Azov] battalion was sent forward ahead of tanks and armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian army's 51st Mechanised Brigade. ...
"[Despite some casualties] Andriy Biletsky, the battalion's commander, told the Telegraph the operation had been a '100% success' ... 'Most important of all, we established a bridgehead for the attack on Donetsk. And when that comes we will be leading the way.'"
The Telegraph then added: "But Kiev's use of volunteer paramilitaries to stamp out the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘people's republics', proclaimed in eastern Ukraine in March, should send a shiver down Europe's spine.
"Recently formed battalions such as Donbas, Dnipro and Azov, with several thousand men under their command, are officially under the control of the interior ministry but their financing is murky, their training inadequate and their ideology often alarming.
"The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf's Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti-Semites."
Leading the 'White Races'
In interviews, some of the fighters questioned the Holocaust, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and acknowledged that they are indeed Nazis, a fact also known by Kiev authorities.
Biletsky, the Azov commander, "is also head of an extremist Ukrainian group called the Social National Assembly", according to the Telegraph article which quoted a recent commentary by Biletsky as declaring:
"The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen."
The battalion itself is founded on right-wing views, Biletsky acknowledged, adding that Nazi allegiances are not grounds for exclusion. "The most important thing is being a good fighter and a good brother so that we can trust each other", he said.
The Ukrainian offensive against the ethnic Russian rebels also has attracted neo-Nazis from around Europe. "Mr Biletsky says he has men from Ireland, Italy, Greece and Scandinavia", the Telegraph reported.
These foreign recruits include Mikael Skillt, a former sniper with the Swedish Army and National Guard who leads and trains a reconnaissance unit. Skillt identified himself as a National Socialist who has been active in the extreme right-wing Party of the Swedes. "Now I'm fighting for the freedom of Ukraine against Putin's imperialist front", he said.
They are all Ukrainian heroes - why worry about politics?
The Kiev government is aware of the Nazi sympathies among the fighters that it has sent into eastern Ukraine to crush the ethnic Russian resistance. "Ukraine's government is unrepentant about using the neo-Nazis", the Telegraph reported, quoting Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, as saying:
"The most important thing is their spirit and their desire to make Ukraine free and independent ... A person who takes a weapon in his hands and goes to defend his motherland is a hero. And his political views are his own affair."
President Petro Poroshenko even hailed one of the militiamen who died in fighting on Sunday as a hero, the Telegraph reported.
The article concludes on a salutary note: "Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian and Ukrainian security affairs at New York University, fears battalions like Azov are becoming 'magnets to attract violent fringe elements from across Ukraine and beyond ... The danger is that this is part of the building up of a toxic legacy for when the war ends', he said.
"Extremist paramilitary groups who have built up 'their own little Freikorps' and who are fundamentally opposed to finding consensus may demand a part in public life as victors in the conflict, Mr Galeotti added. 'And what do you do when the war is over and you get veterans from Azov swaggering down your high street, and in your own lives?'"
Additional commentary by Abe: (from comments on Consortium News)
The current geopolitical situation in Ukraine is aptly symbolized by a Hakenkreuz or angled cross, specifically in the form of a Wolfsangel or wolf-hook.
A Wolfsangel is a wolf-hunting device, used in a similar way as a fishing hook. It is attached on a chain which is anchored to a tree or similar stout object, and a bait is put on the hook. When the wolf eats the bait, it swallows the hook. The chain prevents the wolf from escaping, and it can be killed at will.
The Wolfsangel was the symbol of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, an elite German division fighting primarily on the Eastern Front during World War II.
During Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Das Reich fought in the battles of the Dnieper River crossings, Smolensk, Kiev and Vyasma. It was in the spearhead of the failed attempt to capture Moscow. In 1943, after the catastrophic defeat of German forces at Stalingrad, Das Reich helped recapture Kharkov and was thrown into the titanic battle of Kursk.
Thus the Wolfsangel symbol recalls the most violent and bloody battles against what variously described in Nazi propaganda as "Jewish Bolshevik subhumans", the "Mongol hordes", the "Asiatic flood" and the "red beast."
After World War II, the Wolfsangel symbol has been used by some Neo-Nazi organizations, including the Svoboda party in Ukraine. Today we see the same vicious Nazi propaganda lines invoked by the post-coup regime in Kiev in its "anti-terrorist" campaign in eastern Ukraine.
Mainstream media deliberately ignore the fact that Svoboda (formerly known as the Social-National Party of Ukraine in a deliberate inversion of National-Socialism) and Right Sector armed neo-Nazi militants exploited the largely peaceful Maidan anti-government protests, and violently seized power in Kiev. Neo-Nazis leaders were given key positions in the post-coup government.
Immediately after the putsch, the new regime proceeded to saddle the nation with IMF debt and suppress political opposition, particularly among the ethnic Russian citizenry of southern and eastern Ukraine. This led directly to referendum and secession in the region of Crimea, calls for referendum in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and today's armed conflict.
Thanks to the US/NATO sponsors of the post-coup regime, the Wolfangel banner is flying over Ukraine.
The question is: how long will the world continue to take the bait?
Robert Parry is an investigative reporter. He broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.
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This article was originally published by Consortium News.
