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Takuan Seiyo takes a close look at the real story behind the recent pro-EU demonstrations in Kiev.

Update: The image misidentified as a photo of Stepan Bandera has been replaced by two other photos illustrating the same theme.

Things are not what they seem
By Takuan Seiyo

As pro-European Union demonstrations swell in Kiev’s equivalent of Tahrir Square and Western leaders sing hosannas to Ukrainian ostensibly Europhile demos, it’s easy to forget that that there is a reality behind the apparent reality.

Western media started writing about the skeletons rattling in the closet of Ukraine’s “democratic opposition” mainly in the last couple of days, after Senator John McCain took his usual traveling Neocon circus to the Ukraine and was photographed with some individuals of questionable connections. But in Eastern Europe, where people speak languages kin to the Ukrainian, and have some troubling memories, scrutiny of the “Euro-maydan” — the Kiev square on which pro-EU, anti current-regime demonstrations have been taking place, began earlier.

An eyewitness account of the “Eurosquare” was published by the Czech Free Press on 9 December. The Czech on-site correspondent opens with this paragraph:

”The descendants of those who in 1941 crossed over to the side of Hitler, served in the occupation police force, executed Jews in the Babi Yar massacre, fought in the ranks of SS Division “Galicia,” carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles via the gangs of Bandera, shot and slaughtered Ukrainians, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, Poles, Jews are now totally free to walk the streets of Kiev and speechify from tribunes. Today they have only changed their master. Instead of Hitler they now have Obama.”

The last sentence sounds confusing, as most writers expressing strong anti-fascist opinions tend to be of the Left, and love Obama. But one who keeps his head about him and knows the lay of the postmodern terrain perceives its hidden gullies and peat bogs. One such may hate fascists and despise Antifa, and see the similarities between Obama and Mussolini, EU and Third Reich. It’s the Yang-become-Yin of the ancient Orientals, and the Unity of Opposites of the ancient Greeks.

The Czech correspondent goes on to describe how Ukrainian Nationalists with Nazi heritage and current sympathies were bused in from Galicia (Western Ukraine) early on, organized a pro-UPA march, occupied public buildings and then, emboldened by the regime’s weak response, went on to elevate the aggressive profile of the Euro-Square demonstrations. He provides some interesting photo links, particularly this.

The Polish website Kresy.pl (“Borderlands”) has been following the happenings in Kiev since day one. It’s easy to understand why if one knows that for most of the past 1000 years, Western Ukraine, “Galicia,” was a Polish province, as was Belarus, Lithuania and parts of Moldova too. All these were the Borderlands.

That indigenous Slavonic tribes sought self-determination is understandable. It’s their methods that were questionable. The total number of victims of the genocide by the Ukrainian Nazi-tool organizations OUN and UPA plus “freelancers” is assessed in Poland at 200,000 Poles and a larger, uncountable number of Polish Jews, Armenians, Gypsies, Czechs, Russians, and Ukrainians too who took exception to the nationalist-fascist ideology.

There are quite a few commemorative websites like Kresy.pl (historical background Google transl. here), some with portfolios of photographs of dead people that no one should see but those who have already hardened themselves by viewing photos of White victims of rape-homicide in South Africa or videos of Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers.

The reason it’s possible to determine roughly how many Poles were killed by Ukrainians, but not Polish Jews, is that the murder of Poles in the Ukraine (but not in Western Poland) was the work mainly of Ukrainians, whereas Germans were the main murderers of Jews, with Ukrainian units sometimes doing the wet work on German orders and at other times acting on their own initiative.

But the situation was far more convoluted than that. Even while hating and slaughtering Jews in collaboration with Nazi Germany, the Ukrainians themselves were a subject of enslavement and murder by the Germans. Moreover, there were Ukrainians who resisted the fascist factions and even sheltered Jews and Poles at a risk of their own lives. Holocaust deniers would be much smarter if they took the opposite tack and asserted that the Holocaust was five times as big as it’s supposed to have been, and Slavs were four fifths of it. A common estimate is that during the three years of German occupation of the Ukraine, 2.5-3 million Gentile civilians perished, and 0.8-0.9 million Jews.

Alas, it’s in the Ukraine where Holocaust deniers thrive today. The “Dr” in Dr. David Duke [also Grand Wizard of the KKK] is a gift from MAUP, the largest university in that country, for his dissertation “Zionism as a Form of Ethnic Supremacism.” Among many others, MAUP teaches that “Zionism” is the biggest threat to Modern Civilization, and propagates old-time “Elders of Zion” and blood libel hogwash. In 2005 its president, Georgy Shchokin, expressed solidarity with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threat to wipe out Israel, stating, “We’d like to remind that the Living God Jesus Christ said to Jews two thousand years ago: ‘Your father is a devil!’

Such utterances may be heard in other parts of the world too, but hardly a university president may be found, let alone if he is Professor of Theology, which Shchokin is, who doesn’t know that the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels is an observant Jew addressed by his all-Jewish disciples as “rabbi.” It adds to the understanding of how much of the Ukraine we misinterpret that Shchokin the defender-of-the-Living-God is an ex-Communist Party functionary and a Russophile, hence he represents Eastern Ukraine’s Jew-hatred, as opposed to Western Ukraine’s, which is the main subtext of this article. ^[1]

“Do you know what is the “right wing” of the “Euro-Square” in Kiev?” — asks “Polish Ukraine” activist Wiesław Tokarczuk (name is Polish, surname Ukrainian) in a December 9 article in Kresy.pl, entitled “Racism and anti-Semitism in the Kiev Pro-European Union Demonstration Square”. “I have not heard anything in the Polish media about that, but there are troglodyte weirdos there from hell — from the world of Hitler, [Ukrainian fascist leader] Bandera, and Mussolini.”

Tokarczuk relays that Web-posted photographs show Eurosquare’s protesters with the Wolf’s Claw emblem: the contemporary equivalent of the swastika. “They are members of the paramilitary organization “Ukrainian Patriot” and of the nationalist Svoboda [“Freedom”] Party. They are waving flags of the fascist troops of UPA and OUN, symbols of a sick ideology and of genocide.” He relays that none of the leaders or prominent foreign supporters of the pro-European Union demonstrations have distanced themselves from their strong Nazizoid element.

“The Neo-Nazis stand under the flag of the European Union,” relays Tokarczuk, “and read poems from the racist, Antisemitic tome, Voice of the Blood — and no one protests.” He quotes a poem that one of the authors of Voice of the Blood, Diana Kamliuk, has read from the tribune of Euro-Square — the same tribune where the leaders of the demonstration and visiting foreign politicians have addressed the crowds:
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