The two incidents taken together illustrate the role of far right groups in today's Ukraine.
Western governments and media try to minimise the importance of these groups by pointing to their very limited election success.
In reality, as I explained when I discussed the outcome of Ukraine's last parliamentary elections back in October (see Western Media Get Ukraine Elections Wrong. There's Big Trouble Ahead, Russia Insider, 31st October 2014) lack of support in elections scarcely matters to groups that are by definition anti-democratic and which are therefore in principle hostile to democratic elections. These groups are however important to the Maidan regime because they can be used to suppress the regime's enemies and to control the streets:
"As for the Right Sector and various Nazi groups, the fact that they have little electoral support (a point endlessly made by the regime's apologists) does not reduce their real political role. This is not to win elections; as militantly anti-democratic organisations they have little interest in doing so. It is to actively terrorize and intimidate the regime's enemies."
Given the economic crisis in Ukraine and the widespread disaffection it has caused, popular protests on Maidan Square might easily evolve into a serious challenge to the Maidan regime. After the trauma of the Maidan coup, the police and security services probably cannot be relied on. The militants of the far right groups however can, and they were quickly brought in to disperse the protests, which they did, just as they did in Odessa in May last year.
Comment: It's all about 'shock and awe' for these pathological types, in order to keep their victims off guard and disabled. It's psychological warfare at its most primitive. Check out:
Limbic Warfare and Martha Stout's Paranoia Switch
In return the Maidan regime has to tolerate the violence and criminal behaviour of these groups, the violence against Ukraine's LGBT community being a case in point.
Every so often things go just a bit too far, provoking the odd crackdown on the groups' wilder members.
Thus in March last year we saw the killing by the police of the Right Sector militant Aleksandr Muzychko (also known as Sashko Bilyi) and in May this year we saw the arrest following an attempted hold-up of the Aidar Battalion's Vita Zaveruha (the subject of a now notorious feature in Elle).
However the reality of today's Ukraine is that street-level violence and criminality have now become an integral element of its political system.
The most heart-breaking video of the civilian bombing outrage that we have seen so far. Force yourself, and everyone you know to watch it. Share it and talk about it.
The war in East Ukraine is routinely presented in western mainstream media as a humanitarian tragedy in which both sides are guilty of harming civilians, but this is, in fact, not true.
The reality is, it has been a very one-sided affair with the Ukrainian side deliberately shelling and individually terrorizing defenseless civilians, in a calculated effort to lure Russia into a larger conflict, a cynical and vicious strategy condoned and egged on by neo-con elements in the US and the EU.
If the general public in Europe and America knew what was happening they would never allow it, but they do so only because the media, also dominated by neo-con views, has not reported the situation honestly......continued
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