© Sputnik/ Stringer"Nazi and proud."
On Friday, several thousand Ukrainian ultranationalists descended onto the streets of Kiev to mark Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) day, dedicated to the 74th anniversary of the founding of the WWII-era Nazi collaborationist organization.Ukrainian media reported that
up to 5,000 radicals from organizations including the Azov Regiment, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Right Sector and the Svoboda Party gathered to celebrate the holiday, which coincides with the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks and Defender of Ukraine Day, the latter holiday invented in 2014 to replace the 'Defender of the Fatherland Day', celebrated in most post-Soviet countries on February 23.
The nationalists walked through the streets, holding torches and flares, throwing smoke bombs, chanting nationalist slogans, beating drums and holding the flags of ultranationalist and neo-fascist organizations.
The Nazi-collaborationist Ukrainian Insurgent Army was formed in the autumn of 1942, and fought against the Red Army during and after its offensive to liberate Soviet Ukraine from Nazi occupation.
During the war, the UPA, the OUN and other nationalist groups attempted to form an ethnically 'pure' Ukrainian state, ethnically cleansing tens of thousands of Poles, and helping Nazi forces to murder Jews, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and Ukrainian anti-fascists.In 2015, in spite of the fact that over six million Ukrainians fought in the ranks of the Red Army, compared to the estimated 100,000 who fought for the UPA,
the government granted the guerrilla movement the status of 'fighters for Ukrainian independence', and named its founder Stepan Bandera a 'hero of Ukraine'.The Azov Regiment, a volunteer fighting force formed after the February 2014 Maidan coup that has since been
incorporated into Ukraine's National Guard, has been repeatedly accused of neo-Nazi sympathies. It and other ultranationalist volunteer battalions have been accused of committing war crimes against the civilian population in eastern Ukraine. Since 2014, Russia has repeatedly accused post-Maidan Kiev of collaborating with, coopting and using radical nationalists for political and military purposes, including in the civil war in east Ukraine.
Unfortunately, many Western governments supporting Ukraine have attempted to downplay these forces' role, or to ignore them altogether.
Comment: There's nothing "neo" about these Nazis. No wonder the U.S. helped put them in power in post-Maidan Ukraine - the CIA establishment has been infested with Nazis ever since Allen Dulles's love affair with the SS during the war.
it's spreading everywhere, even in Formula 1 racing. Lewis Hamilton, 3 times World Champion and currently racing for the Mercedes team has an SS tattoo on the side of his neck because Nico Rosberg the second driver for Mercedes is Jewish.
That's what I've been trying to tell you all along. I knew we 'd reach that point more than 20 years ago and tried to alert the international public. To no avail. Not only things got worse but I was spotted from my second online posting back in 1997. Ever since I've been continually harassed but I didn't and do not intend to back down. Currently the entire planet has become an open barrel of gasoline. If a burning match is thrown into it we 'll be blown sky high and that is hardly an exaggeration.