© © REUTERS/ Gleb GaranichArseny Yatsenyuk has more in common with Ukraine's Neo-Nazi political parties Right Sektor and Svoboda than perhaps most people think.
Yatsenyuk made his comments amid ongoing fighting in the east of Ukraine, where Kiev is waging war upon fellow Ukrainians, shelling and bombing cities in provinces that refuse to recognize the regime's seizure of power during late 2013 - early 2014. After a significant loss of life during one of Kiev's many ill-conceived military operations, Yatsenyuk stated:
They lost their lives because they defended men and women, children and the elderly who found themselves in a situation facing a threat to be killed by invaders and sponsored by them subhumans. First, we will commemorate the heroes by wiping out those who killed them and then by cleaning our land from the evil.From fabricating an "invasion," to claims of "threatened" lives, to the labeling of Russians as "subhuman," Yatsenyuk has recited fully the script of Nazism used to justify its various historical crimes against humanity. Kiev's forces in eastern Ukraine are not fighting an "invasion," but constitute an invading force themselves, making incursions into eastern Ukraine and holding territory only through unmitigated brutality against local populations clearly collaborating with armed self-defense forces intent on resisting Kiev's authority.
Comment: Is it any wonder then that the mostly Russian population of Crimea called for a referendum that would bring them under the protection of the Russian Federation? And that those living in the eastern regions of Ukraine, who also have strong cultural and ethnic ties to Russia would be terrified of the new regime in power in Kiev? They have every right to be.