They tortured, murdered, committed ethnic cleansing. Meet Ukraine’s ‘national heroes’

Radical nationalists collaborated with Nazi Germany and left a bloody legacy that is still celebrated today

In early February 1929, 97 years ago, a group of Ukrainian political émigrés gathered in Vienna to formalize what they believed was a movement of national liberation. What emerged from that congress, however, was not merely a campaign for statehood, but a radical organization that rejected democratic norms and embraced political violence.

Members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) took part in Nazi Germany’s aggression against Poland and the USSR, carried out mass killings on ethnic and political grounds, and conducted sabotage operations first for the Third Reich and later for Western powers. Those members of the OUN who survived and could not flee to the West faced criminal charges in the USSR; however, many were granted amnesty by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in an effort to promote internal reconciliation in Ukraine.

In this article, we examine how the OUN developed into a militant movement whose actions during and after World War II left a lasting and controversial historical legacy.

The history of Ukrainian nationalism is rather brief. The term ‘Ukrainians’ was not used as an ethnonym until the late 19th century. According to historians, the idea that Ukrainians are a separate nation from Russians was quickly seized upon by the Austro-Hungarian authorities, who recognized its ‘anti-Russia’ potential. In contrast, Galician Russophiles who advocated for unity between the Carpathian region’s population and Russians faced severe repression from the Austro-Hungarians. During World War I, Austrians actively promoted Ukrainian nationalism to recruit volunteers for their army.  (more...)

They tortured, murdered, committed ethnic cleansing. Meet Ukraine’s ‘national heroes’

Poland wants to expel Ukrainian neo-Nazis

 

Warsaw is facing the consequences of its own errors.

Poland is becoming increasingly irritated by the advancing process of Nazi rehabilitation in Ukraine. Recently, the country began taking several measures to reduce the political, economic, and military integration it had maintained with the Kiev regime since 2022, as the extremist ideology spread by the Ukrainian junta poses a threat to Poles. In a further step in this move, Poland now wants to restrict the naturalization of Ukrainians based on ideological preferences.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced his intention to change the country's citizenship law to prevent Ukrainians with fascist sympathies from becoming Polish citizens. He is extremely concerned about the massive influx of Ukrainian immigrants into the country who openly praise historical Nazi figures, including criminals who committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Poles during World War II.

At a press conference on the matter, Nawrocki said that changes to the citizenship law are urgently needed and stated that his cabinet is already working to accelerate this update process. The Polish leader clearly expressed concern about the rise of Banderism, a Ukrainian ultranationalist ideology based on the historical rehabilitation of Stepan Bandera—an SS collaborator responsible for massacres during the Nazi invasion of Poland and the USSR.

Currently, Bandera is seen as a national hero by the Ukrainian government. Since 2014, he has been among the historical Nazi figures that Kiev has considered "martyrs" in a so-called "struggle against Soviet imperialism." This irresponsible attempt to rewrite history and ignore the crimes of Nazism has resulted in a society with widespread problems of coexistence with other ethnicities, creating conflicts with non-Ukrainian-speaking peoples, such as Russians, Hungarians, and even Poles—despite the military alliance between Kiev and Warsaw.  (more...)

Poland wants to expel Ukrainian neo-Nazis

Polish PM blasts ‘local idiots’ after neo-Nazi flag scandal

 

57 Ukrainians and six Belarusians face deportation following disturbances at a rap concert in Warsaw’s National Stadium

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused “local idiots” and “foreign agents” of stoking tensions between Poland and Ukraine, following the display of a flag used by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who participated in the ethnic cleansing of Poles during World War II, at a rap concert in Warsaw.

Former Polish ambassador to Washington, Marek Magierowski, said that the concert had been attended by “hundreds of able-bodied, conscription-age Ukrainians.” He added that they were “Proudly displaying a red-and-black nationalist flag, an outrageous insult to most Poles.”

In a post on X on Tuesday, Tusk accused Russia of seeking to pit the two nations against each other.  “The resolution of the Ukrainian war is approaching, so Russia is doing everything to sow discord between Kiev and Warsaw,” he claimed. Moscow has consistently denied interfering in the affairs of other nations.

While admitting that the “anti-Polish gestures” were made exclusively by Ukrainians, he suggested that it was Moscow’s “scenario, orchestrated by foreign agents and local idiots.”

Tusk said that authorities had begun deportation proceedings against 63 foreign nationals – 57 Ukrainians and six Belarusians – after the disturbances. He did not say whether those carrying the UPA flag had been arrested.

Footage from Saturday's concert by Belarusian rapper Max Korzh showing fans waving a red-and-black banner – associated with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – sparked a national outcry.  (more...)

Polish PM blasts ‘local idiots’ after neo-Nazi flag scandal

Poland’s ‘Banderization’ crisis result of Kiev's European funding

 

Italian journalist Davide Carbonaro, longtime resident of Poland, speaks about the controversial rise of Bandera sympathizers among Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

Polish president-elect asks Zelensky to exhume victims of Ukrainian Nazis

 

The remains of over 100,000 Poles are lying in unmarked mass graves scattered across Ukraine, according to a historian’s estimates

Kiev should allow the “full-scale” exhumation of the victims of mass ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during World War II, also known as the Volyn massacre, Polish President-elect Karol Nawrocki has said.

Poles are “waiting for this truth” and their families “are still suffering from the trauma that happened 82 years ago,” he stated at a ceremony honoring the victims of the Volyn massacre on Friday.

The president-elect was speaking about a mass killing campaign waged by militants from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) from 1943 to 1945 in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, in which around 100,000 Poles were killed. Both organizations actively collaborated with Nazi Germany.

Nawrocki said he cannot tolerate Poles being “denied the right to bury the victims of the Volyn genocide.” The souls of those victims “cry out for a grave, they cry out for a tomb… for memory and as the future president of Poland, I am obliged to speak with their voice,” he stated at the ceremony.

“As the president elect, I want to officially ask the [Ukrainian] ambassador and [Vladimir] Zelensky about the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumation in Volhynia.”

The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, Vasily Bodnar, who was present at the ceremony, said both sides need to talk about the issue openly and “honor the memory of those victims, who need it, on both sides of the border.”  (more...)

Polish president-elect asks Zelensky to exhume victims of Ukrainian Nazis

Volhynia Massacre | Poland warns Ukraine has to confront the truth

 

On the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia massacre, Poland officially declared July 11 a National Day of Remembrance for over 50,000 Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943–1945. This decision, met with fierce criticism from Kiev, has reopened historical wounds and raised deep questions about Ukraine’s present-day identity.

Polish president approves memorial day for victims of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators

 

Kiev has praised the perpetrators behind the WWII ethnic cleansing as national heroes and freedom fighters

Outgoing Polish President Andrzej Duda has established an official day of remembrance for the victims of the “genocide” committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during World War II.

From 1943 to 1945, Ukrainian Nazi collaborators murdered over 100,000 ethnic Poles in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, now part of modern Ukraine. The peak of the massacres, which the Polish government has officially recognized as a genocide, occurred in mid-1943, when the residents of “about a hundred villages” were exterminated on July 11, according to the text of a bill passed by the Polish Parliament and Senate last month.

On Wednesday, Duda signed a law officially establishing July 11 as the “National Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide committed by the OUN and UPA in the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic,” according to his office.

“The martyrdom of Poles for belonging to the Polish nation deserves to be remembered with an annual day designated by the Polish state to honor the victims,” the document states.  (more...)

Polish president approves memorial day for victims of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators

'You can't talk to Nazis' | July 11 declared Remembrance Day for Volhynia Victims in Poland

 

Poland has officially designated July 11 as a National Remembrance Day to honor over 100,000 Polish civilians massacred by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II in what’s known as the Volhynia Massacre

Former Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt reacts to Kiev’s refusal to confront its Nazi past and calls for a firm stance from Warsaw

The 'Experts' Lied to Us

 

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nazis

Last month the historian Marta Havryshko noted that a (formerly) USAID-funded Ukrainian outlet produced a “heroic saga” documentary about the NGU Azov Brigade, featuring one of its ideological/recruitment officers, Vladyslav “Docent” Dutchak. According to Havryshko, the filmmaker said to him, “The roots of this demonization of Azov go back to its formation. So, I have to ask — were there people in the unit at the beginning who held neo-Nazi views?”

“I didn’t see such people in the unit,” Dutchak answered. Back in 2015, before the New York Times and Foreign Policy magazine described Azov as “openly neo–Nazi,” but after it joined the National Guard, a foreign affairs reporter for USA Today interviewed Alex, a drill sergeant in the Azov Regiment, who “admitted he is a Nazi and said with a laugh that no more than half his comrades are fellow Nazis.”

He said he supports strong leadership for Ukraine, like Germany during World War II, but opposes the Nazis’ genocide against Jews. Minorities should be tolerated as long as they are peaceful and don’t demand special privileges, he said, and the property of wealthy oligarchs should be taken away and nationalized. He vowed that when the war ends, his comrades will march on the capital, Kiev, to oust a government they consider corrupt.

Andriy Diachenko, a spokesperson for the Azov Regiment, tried to do some damage control, and said that “only 10% to 20%” of Azov fighters in the National Guard were really Nazis. “I know Alex is a Nazi, but it’s his personal ideology. It has nothing to do with the official ideology of the Azov,” Diachenko told Oren Dorell from USA Today. “He’s a good drill sergeant and a good instructor for tactics and weapons skills.” Dorell also spoke with Oleg Odnorozhenko, then deputy commander of the regiment, who “complained that Alex does not speak for the group.” Odnorozhenko was in those days the main ideologue of two neo-Nazi organizations (the Social-National Assembly and Patriot of Ukraine) associated with the Azov Battalion.  (more...)

The 'Experts' Lied to Us

Press release on the demarche to the Embassy of Canada in the Russian Federation

 

On March 28, Brian Ebel, the deputy chief of the Canadian diplomatic mission in Moscow, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and issued a demarche in connection with Russophobic comments by Canadian Ambassador to Russia Sarah Taylor following flower-laying at the Motherland monument at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg. 

The diplomat was told that it was unacceptable to refer to the siege of Leningrad   in a biased conjunction with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Conference. It was emphasised that inherent insinuation is blasphemous and insulting to our people and to the memory of the victims of the siege. It represents a bungled attempt to justify the crimes of the Nazi invaders and to distort historical facts. Sarah Taylor’s remark is especially inappropriate on the eve of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory to which Canada also contributed as a member of the anti-Hitler coalition. We detect a symptom of Canada’s post-war policy in the Ambassador’s behavior. That country gave refuge to thousands of Nazi criminals and their henchmen from among the Banderites and other punishers on its territory. It is not surprising that it was in Canada’s Parliament that the country’s political elite applauded a Hitler collaborator from the 14th Waffen SS Galicia Division in September 2023, while Ottawa is fully endorsing the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. 

The Canadian side has been informed that attempts to rewrite history to suit the political agenda by whitewashing the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their followers in Ukraine are unacceptable. The Canadian Ambassador has been recommended not to forget the brotherhood between our nations during the war, which served as the foundation of our bilateral relations for many years.  (more...)

Press release on the demarche to the Embassy of Canada in the Russian Federation

Stepan Bandera's Sinister MI6 Alliance Exposed

 

March 17th marked the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee. With the Red Army rapidly advancing on Berlin, Nazi officials released Ukrainian ultranationalist military units from their command, and recognised the Committee - and a newly-formed National Army under its control - as the legitimate government of Ukraine. It was hoped the UNC would continue Hitler’s crusade against the Soviet Union following Berlin’s rapidly impending defeat in World War II, which occurred two months later.

The UNC’s establishment was eagerly supported by notorious Ukrainian ultranationalist Stepan Bandera, founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), two ultranationalist factions heavily complicit in the Holocaust. As the mainstream media has acknowledged, his legacy endures in modern Ukraine, in the form of Neo-Nazi military units such as Azov Regiment, and he remains a much-celebrated figure in certain quarters of the country - much to the chagrin of Kiev’s Eastern European neighbours.

Bandera believed Nazi Germany’s UNC recognition would encourage American and British backing for OUN-B’s anti-Communist crusade, and Ukrainian independence. The Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR), which the OUN-B was instrumental in founding in 1944, was already in covert contact with London and Washington. As it was, no such formal support ever came to pass. Yet, little-known declassified CIA records expose the malign contours of a long-running conspiracy between Bandera and MI6 to destabilize the Soviet Union during the Cold War’s initial years.

This dark handshake only expired because MI6’s fascist asset was resistant to joining forces with other Ukrainian anti-Communist forces, therefore jeopardising plans by Washington and London for all-out war with Moscow in Donbass. That plot, intended to ultimately collapse the entire USSR, has eerie, direct echoes of the current Ukraine proxy war. So too Britain’s willingness, then and now, to go far further than the US in building alliances with the most reactionary, dangerous Ukrainian ultranationalist elements, in service of balkanising Russia.  (more...)

Stepan Bandera's Sinister MI6 Alliance Exposed

How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA

 

The birth of Ukrainian Nationalism as it is celebrated today has its origins in the 20th century. However, there are a few important historical highlights that should be known beforehand.

Kievan Rus’ was a federation in Eastern-Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century and was made up of a variety of peoples including East Slavic, Baltic and Finnic, and was ruled by the Rurik dynasty.

Today’s Belarus, Russia and Ukraine all recognize the people of Kievan Rus’ as their cultural ancestors.

Kievan Rus’ would fall during the Mongol invasion of the 1240s, however, different branches of the Rurik dynasty would continue to rule parts of Rus’ under the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia (modern-day Ukraine and Belarus), the Novgorod Republic (overlapping with modern-day Finland and Russia) and Vladimir-Suzdal (regarded as the cradle of the Great Russian language and nationality which evolved into the Grand Duchy of Moscow).

The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia was under the vassalage of the Golden Horde during the 14th century, which was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate originating as the northwestern section of the Mongol Empire.

After the poisoning of Yuri II Boleslav, King of Galicia-Volhynia in 1340, civil war ensued along with a power struggle for control over the region between Lithuania, Poland and its ally Hungary. Several wars would be fought from 1340-1392 known as the Galicia-Volhynia wars.

In 1349, the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia was conquered and incorporated into Poland.

In 1569 the Union of Lublin took place, joining the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which ruled as a large and major power for over 200 years.

From 1648-1657 the Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack-Polish War took place in the eastern territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.

Under the command of Khmelnytsky, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, allied with the Crimean Tatars and local Ukrainian peasantry, fought against Polish domination and against the Commonwealth forces.

Khmelnytsky to this day is a major heroic figure in the Ukrainian nationalist history.  (more...)

How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA

'Sadovyi' and the Memory War

 

ALA scandal revisited. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. More clues about convergence of CIA and Bandera cult. Early days of the memory war in Ukraine.

This year the “Bandera Lobby” suffered an emotional rollercoaster when the American Library Association (ALA) only temporarily recognized Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives as “one of the Best Historical Materials published in 2022 and 2023.” The award was rescinded after Lev Golinkin wrote an article for The Nation, which asked why the ALA is “Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis.”

Enemy Archives was compiled by a pair of prominent Banderite memory warriors. Lubomyr Luciuk, whose ex-wife leads the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, might not be a sworn member of OUN-B, or the “Banderite” faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which still exists. Luciuk’s co-editor, on the other hand, doesn’t have as much plausible deniability. Volodymyr Viatrovych served as the “memory czar” of Ukraine (2014-19) only after he led the “Center for Research of the Liberation Movement” (TsDVR, Tsentr Doslidzhenʹ Volʹovoho Rukhu), an important OUN-B front group that has embedded its leaders in the state-run Institute of National Memory and the Ukrainian successor of the KGB over the past 10-20 years.

Something I did not mention in my post about “Bojczukgate”: twenty years ago, the OUN-B assembled an international commission to investigate that scandal at the request of “Sadovyi,” the acting “Land Leader of America” in 2004-2005. “Sadovyi” was Dmytro Shtohryn, the longtime chairman of the Ukrainian Library Association of America (1967-85) and the grandfather of Ukrainian studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He co-founded the TsDVR and reportedly chaired the ALA’s Slavic and East European Section for years.

Over the Fourth of July weekend in 2001, the “Conference of Ukrainian Statehood Organizations” (coalition of OUN-B “facade structures”) in the United States held the 51st annual “Meeting of Ukrainians of America” at a Banderite summer camp in Ellenville, New York. During the Cold War, this was a point of pilgrimage for OUN-B members as the home of the oldest Banderite monument in the world, which remains a quasi-religious site for some. The 2001 “Meeting of Ukrainians” was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Ukrainian independence, and the 60th anniversary of the “Act of Restoration of the Ukrainian State” on June 30, 1941, when the OUN-B tried to establish a pro-Nazi government in German-occupied western Ukraine.  (more...)

'Sadovyi' and the Memory War

Little Nazi-sympathizing surveillance state on the prairie

 

Independent journalist Duncan Kinney of Progress Report was charged with mischief for allegedly spraypainting two monuments dedicated to Nazis and their collaborators—a charge he says the Edmonton Police have used to surveil and silence him. Kinney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss his case.

The Holodomor Industry

 

The 'Bandera Lobby' and the Ukrainian Holocaust industry

Apparently around the time that Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine, in the spring of 2021, the OUN-B legal “hit man” in the United States, Askold Lozynskyj, wrote an article on “the complexities of Jewish-Ukrainian relations,” which in short he blamed on the “Holocaust industry.” Five years earlier, Lozynskyj debated historian John-Paul Himka on the role of Banderites in the Holocaust, and at the first opportunity, smeared Himka of being “perceived as a self-loathing Ukrainian” and “a hired gun, if you will,” for the “Holocaust industry.” According to historian Per Rudling, “Anti-Semitism is a central component in Lozynskyj’s apologetics.”

[Lozynskyj] claims that ‘an … overwhelming amount of Soviet accomplices during the Soviet’s two years in Western Ukraine from 1939-1941 were Jews,’ alleges Jewish control over Canadian media, and charges that scholars who study the anti-Jewish violence of the OUN and UPA are paid to ‘invent demons’ by Jewish interests. He dismisses scholarly studies of the OUN’s racism with references to the alleged Jewish ethnicity of the researchers.

After the Ukrainian American former Nazi death camp guard, John Demjanjuk, died behind bars in Germany in 2012, Askold Lozynskyj mourned him as a “martyr” of the “Jewish Holocaust industry.” Lozynskyj, a former president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (1992-2000) and the Ukrainian World Congress (1998-2008), subsequently chaired the international coordinating body of OUN-B “facade structures” formerly known as the “World Ukrainian Liberation Front” (2009-2013). For years, Lozynskyj was an attorney for Bohdan Kohziy, a Banderite former member of the Nazi auxiliary police. It was under Lozynskyj’s leadership that the Ukrainian World Congress organized its “International Coordinating Committee for Holodomor Awareness and Recognition.”

Arguing “The Case for Seven to Ten Million” on behalf of the “International Holodomor Coordinating Committee,” Lozynskyj admitted that this range included the unconceived children of those who died. From at least 2008 until his death this year, Stefan Romaniw of Melbourne, Australia was a top leader of the Ukrainian World Congress and the chairman of its International Holodomor Coordinating Committee. “We can hope for a better future only if crimes against people are recognized,” Romaniw once said. Another time, after someone vandalized the famous “Bitter Memory of Childhood” statue next to the Holodomor memorial complex in Kyiv, Romaniw drew a connection to Canada’s vandalized monuments that honor the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.  (more...)

The Holodomor Industry

The Bandera Lobby

 

We're joined by Moss Robeson, author of the Bandera Lobby blog, to discuss the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, its history and how it came to influence modern day politics in Canada, the United States and Ukraine.

How a tribute to 'victims of communism' became Canada's most controversial monument

 

A year after its unveiling was postponed indefinitely, concerns about Ottawa’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism remain

A year after its unveiling was postponed indefinitely, Canada’s most controversial monument remains fenced off and undedicated.

Officially named “Memorial to the Victims of Communism—Canada, a Land of Refuge”, the C$7.5m ($5.4m) public monument in downtown Ottawa was built by the federal government and intended to honour the victims of communist regimes who fled to Canada. Designed by the Toronto architecture firm Paul Raff Studio, it is composed of more than 4,000 bronze rods arranged on 365 slim posts. Each rod represents an hour of sunlight across an entire year, with a broken middle symbolising the winter solstice—the darkest day of the calendar.

In addition, there is a small “wall of memory” supposedly engraved with hundreds of names of alleged victims of communism submitted by the initial donors to the project. But this list was never vetted, and in 2021 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation revealed that several people listed for commemoration were wartime fascist leaders, Nazi collaborators or suspected war criminals.

The monument was supposed to be dedicated on 2 November 2023, but officials with Canadian Heritage—the ministry responsible for its construction—postponed the unveiling in the wake of the Yaroslav Hunka scandal. (Hunka, a 99-year-old Ontario resident, had been honoured by the Canadian Parliament in September 2023 for fighting the Soviets in the Second World War; it was later discovered that the veteran had volunteered to fight alongside the Nazis in a Ukrainian SS unit.)

Heritage department officials subsequently decided to review the monument’s commemorative content. That review is ongoing, but Canadian Heritage would not elaborate what specifically is being investigated, other than to say that the government is working to ensure that the monument aligns with “Canadian values”.  (more...)

How a tribute to 'victims of communism' became Canada's most controversial monument

List of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals won’t be released by Ottawa

 

Ottawa has rejected calls to release a secret report containing the names of around 900 alleged war criminals who settled here after the Second World War.

The news was greeted with dismay by Jewish groups, which had joined dozens of leading scholars from around the world asking for the names to be published.

The Globe and Mail was among three organizations to file an access to information request to release Part 2 of the 1986 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada led by retired Superior Court of Quebec judge Jules Deschênes. The second half of the report, containing the names of the alleged war criminals, was kept secret.

Library and Archives Canada, which consulted stakeholders for several months on whether to release the names, replied to The Globe on Monday, saying, “the documents you requested were identified, assessed and are withheld in their entirety.”

Among the 900 names in the secret report are members of the Ukrainian SS Galicia Division who settled in Canada. Last year, there was an outcry after a veteran of the Nazi-led division, Yaroslav Hunka, received two standing ovations in the House of Commons during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Anthony Rota, who invited Mr. Hunka and praised him as a hero, later resigned as Commons Speaker.  (more...)

List of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals won’t be released by Ottawa

‘100% Gentle Azovization’

 

Neo-Nazis train Ukraine’s Presidential Brigade, and top instructor calls Ukrainians slaves that must be weaponized

“War makes fascists of us all.” Paul Verhoeven, the director of Starship Troopers (1997), said this in an interview about his cult-classic film, which satirized a “fascist utopia,” based on a 1959 novel that some described as actually fascist. For Rostyslav Nyzytskyi, a captain in the Azov Brigade with the call-sign “Polack,” Starship Troopers is one of his favorite books: “The essence of this little work will always be immense to me. But briefly … the state belongs to the strongest.” Only military veterans can vote and hold public office. As for the Ukrainian state, “I want to take her, she belongs to me, she’s mine. I have to take it away from everyone who isn’t me.”

A few days earlier in May 2024, Nyzytskyi said what worries him are the modern-day “esirs” (a Turkish word for a slave, captive, or prisoner). This is apparently what he pejoratively calls Ukrainians unwilling to fight, who are increasingly rounded up by force and sent to the front with little to no training. Meanwhile, “Russia has long been wiping us out with its janissaries,” referring to the elite slave-soldiers of the Ottoman empire. When it comes to Ukraine’s slave-soldiers, “Everything depends on us, whether we can turn them into janissaries … because there are still many esirs, [but] we are almost gone, and the esirs don’t care who they work for or who rebuilds what.”

By “we,” Nyzytskyi apparently meant the “active nationalists” that dived into battle, some of them hoping to reach Valhalla. As the heavily Nazi tattooed pagan Azov veteran “Martyn” said a few days ago, “unconscious” Ukrainians “consider these people to be sick, misguided, and just plain crazy … [but] WE, the ‘fucked up’ nationalists, are the ones who allow our country to remain sovereign.”

It is the unhinged sportsmen, soccer fans, hooligans, etc. who are now in the management of the strongest units of the Armed Forces … so we are improving our skills, bringing ourselves a little bit [closer] to the ideal. To the ideal of a Ukrainian Nationalist!!!  (more...)

‘100% Gentle Azovization’

Canada's contribution to pro-NATO Ukrainian nationalism

 

Canada has played a significant role in nurturing pro-NATO Ukrainian nationalism. Author of the recently released Family Ties: How a Ukrainian Nazi and a living witness link Canada to Ukraine today, Peter McFarlane joined Talking Foreign Policy to discuss his new book, the Nazis commemorated on Canada's Memorial to the Victims of Communism and how this history shapes Canada's contribution to the NATO proxy war.