This reminds me of how the side supported by the US (acting within non-English speaking nations or regimes) always manages to give interviews (or holds
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This reminds me of how the side supported by the US (acting within non-English speaking nations or regimes) always manages to give interviews (or holds
In 1956 – the USSR was corrupted by Khrushchev’s corruption – and the Revolution lost its essential Marxist-Leninist character! Russia has been dealing with loss ever since the Russian Socialist Revolution of 1917! Today, many ordinary Russians hold right-wing and far-right viewpoints – believing that the West is attempting to corrupt the pure ‘White’ Russian character with ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘homosexuality’! It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies that these ideas of social organisation and tolerance toward ‘difference’ actually originated within the Soviet Union and spread to the West – permanently effecting Western cultural development forever! Our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought in WWI and WWII – and we are very proud of them!
A modern Russian can be ‘racist’ and ‘homophobic’ claiming that these attributes are part of his modern ‘Slav’ identity (‘Nationalism’) – whilst simultaneously asserting that these viewpoints are ‘separate’ and ‘distinct’ from Hitler’s ‘National Socialism’ and any post-1945 versions of it (that is ‘Neo-Nazism’)! This is wrong. It is an assertion even contradicted in the text itself, which readily admits that the Hitlerite ‘Combat 18’ (Neo-Nazi) is the military wing of the ‘British National Party’ (a Party in the UK that prided itself on it ‘English’ Nationalism)! I notice that even within general Russian language discourse, ‘Neo-Nazis’ in the Ukraine are often referred to as ‘Ultra-Nationalists’ – with the Neo-Nazi Battalions are acknowledged as forming the Hitlerite ‘National Guard’!
Gritsak said that “an organization with the same name was registered in Russia in 2014.” It is not known whether he meant that the organization was officially registered, or whether it simply appeared in Russia. If Hrytsak meant a large community on VKontakte, which was also registered in 2014, then he was mistaken, because Popovich lived and, apparently, lives in Ukraine. The Kremlin is known to finance and support various ultra-right and neo-Nazi groups in Europe and Russia, in particular because of the billionaire Konstantin Malofeev (suspected of financing the self-proclaimed “LPR” and “DPR”). However, there is no obvious connection between the Sober and Evil Youth and the Kremlin, except for the Pan-Slavist ideology that is characteristic of various far-right groups in the region.’
The quandary is that the Western bourgeoisie is blatantly ‘lying’ to its own populations about the Neo-Nazi policy being pursued throughout Eastern Europe! Although the Ukrainian Army – and the ‘Hitlerite’ Volunteer ‘Nationalist Battalions’ – inflicted around 14,000 deaths in the Donbass region between 2014-2022 using weaponry provided by NATO – the West has been pursuing a blatantly incorrect and one-sided narrative that has ‘hidden’ this disgraceful activity and which has instead turned all these Hitlerite Ukrainians into heroic victims, something they most definitely are not! The West has deliberately encouraged the eulogising of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and punished anyone who has travelled to Donbass to assist the beleaguered people there! So-called Ukrainian ‘refugees’ are now being settled amongst use now in the West, just as similar Neo-Nazi fugitives were settled in the West from Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968! Let us not forget that the Pope personally requested that 10,000 Ukrainian ‘SS’ men be ‘secretly’ air-lifted out of Eastern Europe in 1945 to ‘protect’ them from Soviet Justice! Churchill agreed to this, and these mass murderers and paedophiles were resettled in Scotland! Therefore, it is clear that the West has a long history of cooperating with fascism!
I do not (and never have) supported modern Russian ‘nationalism’ – which contains disturbing elements of bourgeois racism and homophobia, much of it encouraged by the Orthodox Church. It is the same thinking that has Orthodox Icons placed in tanks as they are constructed in the factories – as if these religious objects possess a similar (or greater) power than the anti-missile technology that is also installed – the design of the tanks and technology being ‘Soviet’ in origin and quite often logical developments of this technology brought into the modern day.