2022-03-06 | ANONYMOUS

Putin Is Right. Ukraine Does Have A Nazi Problem

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Since this war in Ukraine broke out in late February of 2022, there has been much whitewashing and undermining being done in regards to the presence of the far-Right in Ukraine, and their power. In this article, we would like to present facts that demonstrate how the ultra-nationalists in Ukraine do indeed have a significant presence in the country. 
The first argument that comes up is that the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish. Fair point. What we are arguing here is not that all Ukrainians are Nazis or ultra-nationalists (nobody is arguing this), or that even most are, but that enough are. Enough to be dangerous. This is attested by the fact that Zelensky pays lip service to Ukraine’s racist and murderous national heroes, such as Andrei Melnik and (the most famous of all) Stepan Bandera. It was Melnik who declared in 1939 that his aim was (in his words) “the final annihilation of the common enemy.” (p. 197) The German Nazi general, Wilhelm Canaris wrote about using the Melnik’s (or Mel’nyk’s) paramilitary, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) to annihilate both the Jews and th Poles: “I would have to make appropriate preparations with the Ukrainians so that … the Mel’nyk Organization (OUN) can produce an uprising which would aim at the annihilation of the Jews and Poles.” (p.205) Melnik’s (and Bandera’s) OUN would join the Nazis and become a German unit called the Nachitgall Battalion, and they would create tremendous horror. As Saul Friedman wrote:
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“During the first three days of July 1941, the Nachtigall Battalion, composed almost entirely of Ukrainians under the direction of the Gestapo, slaughtered seven thousand Jews in the vicinity of Lwow (Lemberg). Before their execution, Jewish professors, lawyers and doctors were made to lick all the steps of four story buildings and to carry garbage in their mouths from house to house. Then forced to run a gauntlet of men wearing blue and gold armbands (coincidentally the colors of the Petlurist Republic), they were bayonetted to death in what was officially termed Aktion Petliura.” (Piotrowski, Poland’s Holocaust, ch. 7 p. 208)
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According to Wiktor Poliszczuk, in the first days of the German occupation of Poland, OUN leaflets appeared were disseminated, calling for the extermination of Jews and Poles: “Exterminate the Poles, Jews and communists without mercy. Do not pity the enemies of the Ukrainian National Revolution!” “Nation, know that Moscow, Poland, Magyars [Hungarians], Jews are your enemies! Annihilate them!” (Ibid, P. 209) In July 6th of 1946, Melnik wrote a letter to Hitler pledging his full allegiance to the Reich: “We request that we be allowed to march shoulder to shoulder with the legions of Europe and with our liberator, the German Wehrmacht, and therefore we ask to be permitted to create a Ukrainian military formation.” On July 10th, just four days later, Melnik’s OUN declared to Hitler its “most loyal obedience” in creating a Europe “free of Jews, Bolsheviks, and plutocrats.” (Ibid, pp. 213-214)  A German eyewitness in Zloczow, Tarnopol province, recounted a massacre that he saw done by Stepan Bandera’s men:
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“[July 3, 1941] I saw that in the ditches, about 5 meters deep and 20 meters wide, stood and lay about 60-80 men, women, and children, predominantly Jewish. I heard the wailing and screaming of the children and women, hand grenades were bursting in their midst . Beyond the ditches waited many hundreds of people for execution. In front of the ditches stood 10-20 men in civilian clothes, who were throwing grenades into the ditch. … I found out from the SS soldiers, that they were Bandera’s people.” (Ibid p. 220)
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But, Ukraine’s president Zelensky will pay lip service to the murderers of Jews. In fact, it was agreed that Zelensky would have a mausoleum in dedication to the heroes of Ukraine, including Bandera and Melnik, as we read in one <a href="https://archive.ph/bJuel#selection-843.0-861.63">report</a>:
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“In Ukraine, it is proposed to create a national pantheon of heroes and transfer the remains of Stepan Bandera and Symon Petlyura, as well as nationalists Andrei Melnik and Yevgeny Konovalets. The corresponding appeal to President Volodymyr Zelensky was accepted by the deputies of the Ternopil Regional Council.”
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Zelensky knows that he has to appeal to those who still revere Bandera, and thats why he said: “There are indisputable heroes. Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of Ukraine.” But even Zelensky admits that there are too many streets named after Bandera:  “But I think that when we name so many streets, bridges by the same name, this is not quite right”. So, while Zelensky pays lip service to the Banderites, he also admits that the many streets named after Bandera is excessive. The fact that Zelensky — a Jew — calls Bandera — a murderer of Jews — a hero, is a sign that there are enough people in Ukraine who revere Bandera that the president himself has to say pleasant things about him. And, the fact that there are too many streets named after Bandera, is an indication of this culture of reverence for this mass murderer. Ergo, Ukraine has a Nazi problem. 
Since this war in Ukraine broke out in late February of 2022, there has been much whitewashing and undermining being done in regards to the presence of the far-Right in Ukraine, and their significance. In this article, we would like to present facts that demonstrate how the ultra-nationalists in Ukraine do indeed have a significant presence in the country. 
The US invasion of Iraq sparked a rise in Islamic fundamentalism and really pulled the covers off an underlying Islamist problem in the Middle East. Similarly, Russia’s war in Ukraine provided perfect propaganda fodder for recruitment to far-Right paramilitaries, and also blew the lid off a latent Nazi presence within the country. One can see how Ukraine’s far-Right, once the Russians had taken Crimea and facilitated a separatist war in the Donbas, went from being a fringe movement to a significant political movement. For example, on May 25th of 2014, far-Right activist Ihor Mosiychuk was elected into the Kiev City Council.
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Ihor Mosiychuk
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On October 26th of 2014, Mosiychuk was elected as a member of Ukraine’s national parliament (Verkhovna Rada). On the same day, Yuriy Shukhevych, the co-founder of the ultra-nationalist paramilitary and political organization, the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People’s Self-Defence, also won a seat in parliament. Not only is Yuriy a far-Right politician and radical, but he is the son of Roman Shukhevych, one of the orchestrators of the of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of about 100,000 Poles during the Second World War and who, after the war, fled with thousands of nationalist fighters into the mountains of the Polish eastern borderlands where they awaited for the third world war. (See Piotrowski, Poland’s Holocaust, ch. 7, p. 241).
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Yuriy Shukhevych
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The fanaticism of the father was passed down to the son, and such ideology still has a presence in Ukraine. Also in the same election of October 26th of 2014, Dmytro Linko of the far-Right ultra-nationalist organization, Bratstvo (Brotherhood) won a seat in parliament. Another winner that night was Oksana Korchyns’ka, the wife of Dymytro Korchynsky, the founder of Bratstvo and the St. Mary’s Battalion. The fact that radical political activists who were once seen as insignificant and who were largely ignored by even people who researched Ukraine, now became members of parliament on account of Russia’s taking of Crimea, is an indication that the Russian invasion of, and presence in Ukraine will only intensify radicalization.
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To see more of how significant the ultra-nationalist presence is in Ukraine, one can look to the beginning of the Ukraine Spring, in the Euromaidan revolution of the spring of 2014., where Azov was birthed. It began when thirty people,  several Maidan representatives alongside allies from the far-Right “Patriot of Ukraine” organization — who had just been released from prison — gathered together in the Kozatskiy hotel in Kiev. They also held an office in Kharkiv, which pro-Russian separatists would attempt to storm on March 14th of that year. Street clashes erupted in Kharkiv between the Ukrainian far-Right and the separatists. Amidst the chaos, rose a group calling itself Right Sector and “black little men”, consisting of members of Patriot of Ukraine (or Social National Assembly) and allies dressed in balaclavas and black uniforms. They declared that they were there to counter the pro-Russian forces in southern and eastern Ukraine.  The press quoted a declaration by the new group which stated:
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“We, Ukrainians of the east, watching the inaction of the authorities and the absolute sabotage of local power structures, feel completely defenseless against the separatists and occupiers.Taking this into account, we ourselves will take on the mission of freeing the entire SouthEast [of Ukraine] from occupiers in the form of infiltrators or so-called “green little men” (Russian soldiers who occupied Crimea by force) and treasonous separatists.”
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The Ukrainian government looked at this rising group with interest, wanting to add them as an official battalion. According to a memoir by Azov representative, Stepan Bayda, in April of 2014 there commenced a dialogue between these far-Right volunteers and the new Ukrainian government who offered to establish the group as a regular troop battalion. Contact between the volunteers and government officials continued on. Eventually these fighters would form their own paramilitary called Azov. The battalion began to take shape with the help of a government official named Oleh Lyshako, the leader of the Radical Party who, at the time, was a member of parliament.
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Oleh Lyshako
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Azov’s formation was also partially assisted by Dymytro Korchynsky, the founder of Bratstvo (Brotherhood). The official founding of Azov has been dated as May 5th of 2014, in the southeastern city of Berdiansk at the Sea of Azov (hence the name of the battalion). On May 18th, 80 volunteer fighters moved from the Kozatskiy hotel in Kiev to Berdiansk to train at a firing range. On May 20th, Azov made an announcement that it was drafting new volunteer soldiers. Soon after its formation, Azov would liberate the city of Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists, an action that sparked its fame throughout Ukraine.
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Dymytro Korchynsky. Notice the Catholic symbol behind him and remember what Revelation says: Looks like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon.
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On the second anniversary of the founding of Azov,  Anton Herashchenko, an oﬃcial advisor of Ukraine’s Minister of Interior, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38533829/Irregular_Militias_and_Radical_Nationalism_in_Post_Euromaydan_Ukraine_The_Prehistory_and_Emergence_of_the_Azov_Battalion_in_2014">recounted</a> the emergence of Azov in a long Facebook note. “Yesterday marked exactly two years since the decision was taken to create the already legendary Azov battalion” he wrote. “My friend Yuriy Butusov believes that it is important that the events of that memorable spring are not forgotten. They must be kept in people’s minds.” He writes about how “I had heard about Andriy Bilets’kyy [the first commander of Azov] and his team before. Together with other like-minded people, he had created the national-patriotic organization Patriot of Ukraine”.  He remembers how he personally met with Biletsky on April 6th of 2014 when Dmytro Korchynsky and Ihor Mosiychuk were at a meeting with the Minister of Interior, Arsen Avakov.
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Andriy Biletsky
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On that same day, Herashchenko agreed with Avakov to discuss the reformation of the Ministry of Interior, and he believed that it was only going to be a short conversation. But after the discussion was concluded, the phone began ringing continuously with calls from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk and other regional capitals in the South-East about pro-Russian separatists seizing government buildings.
Herashchenko recounted how many in the Ukrainian police were demoralized in the face of the pro-Russian separatist revolt. Some of them were even ready to surrender and defect to the Russian militia just like their fellow officers had done in Crimea two weeks prior. Some officers in the Donetsk region were demoralized, while some were also secretly cooperating with the separatists, passing to them information about Kiev’s plans to squash the rebellion. 
“In Luhansk,” writes Herashchenko, “the SBU staﬀ did not even dare or did not want to fire warning shots into the air to stop the separatists capturing their building. As a result, more than 1,100 fire arms fell into the hands of pro-Russian citizens, weapons that had been held there since the Stalin era in case an underground organization needed them.”
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Anton Herashchenko
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A month after the separatist uprising, no one in law enforcement in Luhansk was willing to take away these weapons, or give orders to do so. It was in such a predicament, says Herashchenko, that a meeting took place in which Andriy Biletsky stated that he and his team of fighters — at this time calling themselves Patriot of Ukraine — wanted to do an armed defense for Ukraine. Minister Avakov stated that this was possible, but that Patriot of Ukraine needed to be integrated into either the police force or the National Guard, so that they could take an oath and receive weapons in accordance to the Ukrainian Constitution and law, regardless of them being Nazi. Andriy, at this time, did not want to do this because there was a lot of animosity that the far-Right had towards the police since they had beaten nationalist activists.
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Arsen Avakov
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Herashchenko writes that after April 6th of 2014, he met with Oleh Odnorozhenko, the head ideologue for Patriot of Ukraine (later Azov) and asked him to convince Biletsky to change his mind. Odnorozhenko agreed with the idea of integrating the paramilitary to the security forces. The government wanted to use Azov to push the separatists out of the city of Kharkiv. Minister of Interior Avakov and Stepan Poltorak, the Internal Troops commander, organized a forced expulsion, and despite this the situation still remained.
Between April 13th and 20th of 2014, several hundred Patriot of Ukraine (Azov) fighters, in coordination with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) marched through Kharkiv. According to Hareshchenko, the Azov volunteers did not want to provoke clashes with the separatists, but rather to work as a quiet force, “making it clear to anyone who once again attempted to seize the Regional State Administration building that they would not only have to deal with a disorganized and indolent police force, but also with young pro-Ukrainian citizens who would not let them oﬀ lightly. I recall how Andriy Bilets’kyy’s guys in black uniforms went through Kharkiv in a column of vehicles and with one glance by them made clear that Kharkiv would be defended and that what happened in Donets’k and Luhansk would not happen here!”
At the end of April of 2014, both Biletsky and his ideologue, Oleh Odnorozhenko, approached the Minister of Interior, Arsen Avakov, and proposed the idea of organizing the expulsion of the separatists who had been occupying and holding the city council building in Mariupol for a number of weeks. Serhiy Taruta, the governor of Donetsk, was one of the key figures behind pushing the preparation for the clearing of the city council building. Hareshchenko recounts something that demonstrated the significance of Azov in the war — how much the government backed their operation in Mariupol: “The building was stormed on April 24 [2014]…. Serhiy Taruta understood perfectly well that, at that time in the Donetsk region as well as in Ukraine as a whole, there were virtually no orchestrated government forces capable of carrying out such an operation. … [Interim President of Ukraine] Oleksandr Turchinov, [Minister of Interior] Arsen Avakov and [Head of Presidential Administration] Serhiy Pashins’kyy gave their full backing to the operation, as full as possible in the circumstances.” He also talks about how Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Ukrainian billionaire who is the second or third richest man in Ukraine and who at that time was the governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, funded Azov’s operation:
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“It would be biased of me not to say that the head of the Dnipropetrovs’k Regional State Administration Ihor Kolomoys’kyy and his team played an active role, using all means possible to liberate the Mariupol city council. They assisted with organizational, financial, and human resources.”
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Oleh Odnorozhenko
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To further show the significance of Azov in Ukraine’s war, there is a quote from Hareshchenko in which he recounts that he organized Azov’s coming to Mariupol to conduct a mission — the clearing of the city council building — that the Ukrainian government was unable to do. The fact that Azov — a neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist battalion — had to be used to retake Mariupol because the Ukrainian government was incapable, indicates the significance of this paramilitary:
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“my task was to coordinate access for the guys coming to Mariupol from all over Ukraine to carry out the duty that, at that time, the Ukrainian government and its bodies were unable to do. On the night of the storming, the 23rd to 24th [April 2014], the Mariupol city council building was cleared out in a matter of minutes, practically without bloodshed. The whole of Ukraine was jubilant!”
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But after Azov left, the separatist quickly retook the building. It was realized that Azov would not be fully efficient unless they were to become a part of the government security forces and so receive weapons easily from the state. “On the night of May 4–5 [2014], in Mariupol,” writes Hareshchenko, “around 100 young patriots took the oath and were given weapons. From that point on, each day and each hour really counted! The new force was named Azov. Legally, Azov was established as a battalion of the Patrol-Guard Service of the Donets’k Department of Internal Aﬀairs. Direct document preparation was carried out by the newly-appointed chief of the Mariupol police department, [Valeriy] Androshchuk.”
Another key figure behind the formation of Azov was a Ukrainian member of parliament named Oleh Lyashko. In the words of Hareshchenko: “Oleh Lyashko did play a very active role [zhyveyshee uchastie] in the formation the Azov battalion. He contributed to Azov’s creation both because he truly wanted to see a force capable of clearing out the city, and to gain electoral perks as a presidential candidate.” The separatists, knowing that Azov was on its way, left. But not before getting attacked by a gang of pro-Ukrainian volunteers, who had infiltrated the separatists to gather intelligence. The volunteers hit the separatists with a chemical attack using a liquid that, while not harmful, causes a severe pain in the eyes. The chemical attack preceded the flight of the separatists. “In the morning,” writes Herashchenk, “Azov went through the streets of Mariupol in a column of vehicles in black uniforms carrying weapons. It was a demonstration of power designed to show that Mariupol always has been and will always remain a Ukrainian city. After this patrolling, the separatists disappeared from Mariupol in the space of a few days”.
Herashchenko again affirms that the Ukrainian security forces were too corrupt to deal with the separatists in Donbas, and the problem was solved thanks to Oleksandr Turchinov (Minister of Interior) and Arsen Avakov (Minister of Internal Affairs) making the decision “to arm volunteers and, on this basis, to create special divisions of the police or volunteer battalions,” and because of this “the situation changed fundamentally. The Azov battalion, together with more than 30 other voluntary divisions of the police, the National Guard and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, became another building block in the foundation of a new, independent of Russia, Ukrainian Nation!”
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://shoebat.com/2022/03/12/putin-is-right-ukraine-does-have-a-nazi-problem/oleksandr-turchinov/" rel="attachment wp-att-145207"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-145207" class="wp-image-145207" height="538" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" src="https://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Oleksandr-Turchinov.jpg" srcset="https://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Oleksandr-Turchinov.jpg 986w, https://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Oleksandr-Turchinov-300x260.jpg 300w, https://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Oleksandr-Turchinov-768x667.jpg 768w" width="620" /></a>
Oleksandr Turchinov
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So here we see the Azov Battalion being backed by departments of the Ukrainian government — the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the government of Dnipropetrovsk under one of Ukraine’s wealthiest men, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, the government of Donetsk under Serhiy Taruta, the advisor to Ukraine’s Minister of Interior, Anton Herashchenko — and the fact that there was substantial state support to this battalion is an indication of its significance. Moreover, the fact that the government saw collaborating with Azov and making it a part of its National Guard as essential to repulsing the Russian-backed separatists, tells us that they are truly not insignificant. Since working with Azov was seen as essential for Ukraine, then this is indication enough that Ukraine has a Nazi problem.
Its also relevant that we keep in mind that the commandant of the Euromaidan revolt, the event that accelerated this conflict, Andriy Parubiy, is an ultra-nationalist. Parubiy led the Euromaidan protests and after this he was appointed as a Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (until his resignation in August of 2014). From April 14th of 2014 to August 29th of 2019, Parubiy served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. According to an article published by <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-ukrainian-far-right-and-the-danger-it-poses/">the Nation</a>, the reason why Ukraine refuses to remove battalions like Azov is because of their effectiveness in battle, and the fact that people in government were behind their organization:
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“One reason behind Kiev’s inability and unwillingness to rein in the battalions is because they remain the fiercest, most battle-hardened units in the armed forces; it’s hard to send in the National Guard to restore order when the National Guard itself consists of ultranationalist formations.   
An equally disturbing reason is that Ukraine’s far right enjoys the support of two extraordinarily powerful politicians: Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.  Both men played a critical role in harnessing neo-Nazi street muscle during the winter 2013–14 Maidan uprising that resulted in the ouster of corrupt, albeit democratically elected, president Viktor Yanukovych.”
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Parubiy is not just any neo-Nazi. He was the co-founder for a militant neo-Nazi party, the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), which would really be a predecessor to battalions like Azov. The SNPU used the Germanic Wolfsangel, just like the Azov Battalion today. So the revolts that the Western world praised as “pro-democracy” opposition was led by the founder of a neo-Nazi paramilitary, the Social-National Party of Ukraine, a goal of which was to make Ukraine into a world superpower that would extend to the Balkans and the Caucasus.
In the manifesto for the Social National Assembly it reads: “The ultimate goal of Ukraine’s foreign policy is world domination.” Parubiy co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine alongside another ultra-nationalist named Oleh Tyahnibok who, in the 1990s, fought alongside Chechen separatists, against the Russians. Other Ukrainian nationalists, also part of the SNPU, fought for the Chechens, such as Igor Mazur, Valeriy Bobrovich, Dmytro Korechynsky, Andriy Tyahnibok, Dmytry Yarosh, Vladimir Mamalyga, and Olexander Muzychko. They fought for Chechen jihadist leaders Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab. The Ukrainian fighters trained at the base for the Ukrainian National Assembly, in Ivano-Frankivsk, and the base was called “the Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense.” The Ukrainian fighters were sadists, being known to cut throats, pull out finger nails, break fingers and gouge out eyes. The Chechens even gave one Ukrainian fighter, Okexander Muzychko, an award for bravery.
The fact that the Euromaidan protests — the very thing that overthrew the pro-Russia government in 2014, that the world praised as a move to democracy, and that helped sparked the current conflict — was led by an ultra-nationalist who founded a political paramilitary with another ultra-nationalist who joined the Islamic jihad to murder Russians, is quite telling when it comes to Ukrainian society and their pride for their revolution and new government. Arsen Avakov was the initial commandant for the Euromaidan, but this position was given to the ultra-nationalist, Parubiy. According to a report by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171021003751/http://www.newsline.com.ua/society/na-evromaydane-opyat-smenilsya-komendant-13012014133400">Newsline</a>:
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“On the Euromaidan, the commandant changed again – Andriy Parubiy returned to his duties.
This was reported by MP Arsen Avakov on his Facebook page.
In particular, A. Avakov was the commandant of the Euromaidan until this morning, when Andrei Parubiy was in front of this post.
In addition, A. Avakov notes that he is very pleased with the return of A. Parubiy.
“With Andrey, we have more and more confidence and strength,” A. Avakov noted.
Recall that from the very beginning of the Euromaidan, Andriy Parubiy was its commandant, but before the Christmas holidays, he left home, to the Lviv region, and handed over his post to Arsen Avakov.”
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Andriy Parubiy
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Now there are those who will always try to undermine the Nazi and ultra-nationalist reality of the Euromaidan revolt. But lets make a hypothetical scenario to give better perspective. Lets say there was a revolution in Iran led by Shiite fanatics, and Saudi Arabia, not liking the situation, funneled arms to the hands of Iran’s Sunni population which then began to take over government buildings. Iran, obviously wanting to stop this situation, then begins planning to defeat the separatists, but its government is too corrupt to be capable of this. So, the new Iranian government then turns to a fanatical paramilitary of Shiite fighters, and can only rely on such battalions to defeat the Saudi-backed Sunnis. Who would argue that such a reliance and trust for such militants does not signify that Iran has a fanatic problem? The fact that the Ukrainian government put so much reliance on Azov to clear out the Russian-backed separatists, the fact that powerful government figures and one of the richest billionaires in Ukraine supported Azov, and the fact that the commandant of the Euromaidan was a ultra-nationalist himself, it is quite safe to say that Ukraine has a Nazi problem. There are other <a href="https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2018/09/04_a_11946379.shtml">examples</a> of this.
In April of 2018, the deputy of Lviv, Maryana Batyuk, congratulated the Fuhrer — Adolf Hitler — on his birthday on her page on social networks. And the Consul of Ukraine in Hamburg, Vasily Marushinets, not only called fascism an “honorable” cause, but also presented his own version of the Ukrainian flag with a swastika. Marushinets, who worked in Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, once <a href="https://incident.obozrevatel.com/crime/konsul-antisemit-lyubit-fikusyi.htm">stated</a>: “The swastika is a sacred sign for all words.”
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Vasily Marushinets
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Andriy Parubiy was the first leader of Patriot of Ukraine, whose symbol was the same as that of Azov, and it was Parubiy who established a long-lasting tradition of torchlight parades, the very ceremony that Azov does today. It is thus to no surprise that Patriot of Ukraine would later become the Azov battalion itself. What more does one need to see to finally recognize that Ukraine’s nationalist movement, right within the Euromaidan itself, has a Nazi problem and is filled with vicious ultra-nationalists? Now, it is true that most Ukrainians are not nationalist fanatics, but most Ukrainians were not fanatics before or during the Second World War. But, the fact was that there were enough ultra-nationalists at that time, and look at the destruction they caused, joining the SS in their bloodbath, and butchering their Polish neighbors by the tens of thousands. So, today, there is enough of a sympathy lingering and moving within this country, enough to grow to a destructive point.   
In 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law recognizing the racist OUN-UPA as fighters for Ukrainian independence. It was the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) that declared in 1929: “Only the complete removal of all occupants from Ukrainian lands [i.e., ethnic cleansing] will the possibility for an expansive development of the Ukrainian people in the borders of their own nation.” Hence why they committed massacres and butchered the Poles. The Ukrainian parliament has declared such men heroes. This does not happen if ultra-nationalism is insignificant. In December of 2018, the Ukrainian parliament declared as an official holiday the birthday of the leader of the OUN, Stepan Bandera. “Stepan Bandera was an outstanding figure and theorist of Ukraine’s national liberation movement,” the Verkhovna Rada’s resolution said, according to 112.Ukraine TV channel. Bandera’s OUN aided the Germans in their acts of genocide, as we read in Reuben Ainsztein:
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“Stetsko and Bandera proclaimed the creation of a ‘free Ukraine’ and organized a 31,000 strong militia. … The militia played a most important part in making it possible for the Einsatzkommando to carry out their task of genocide and terror until the middle of August [1941]. … The militia was then disbanded and 3,000 cut-throats were allowed to enroll in the Ukrainian Auxiliary police which was to play such an abominable role in the annihilation of the Jews of Eastern Europe.” (See Piotrowski, Poland’s Holocaust, ch. 7, p. 221).
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Bandera’s involvement in the Nazi slaughter was confirmed by US intelligence. As John Loftus states:
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“The CIC [U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps] had an agent who photographed eleven volumes of the secret internal files of OUN/Bandera. These files clearly show how most of its members worked for the municipal officials. The OUN contribution to the German war effort was significant, including the raising of volunteers for several SS divisions.” (See Piotrowski, Poland’s Holocaust, ch. 7, p. 237)
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To this day there is a strong popularity for Bandera. It is not shocking to see the immense crowds of Ukrainian nationalists in their torchlight ceremonies, upholding images of Bandera.
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Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis stage torchlight march in Kiev to mark Nazi collaborator’s birthday<a href="https://t.co/rpt03PJBU4">https://t.co/rpt03PJBU4</a> <a href="https://t.co/xLjltkrZKm">pic.twitter.com/xLjltkrZKm</a>
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What is amazing is how the liberal mainstream media freaked out when they saw the tiki torch rally in Charlottesville, but they will see these massive torchlight rallies in Ukraine, and will undermine their reality. Looking at these crowds and then claiming that ultra-nationalism is not a problem in Ukraine, is like looking at the huge crowds that Trump amassed, and then claiming that Trump is not popular in America. 
It is of no wonder that Ruslan Martsinkiv, the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk — a city of almost 300,000 people that is getting bombed by the Russians — has a framed portrait of Bandera in his office, and said in an interview with the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/8677019/russia-ukraine-missiles-strike-ivano-frankivsk/">Global Times</a> in March of 2022: “But we are not afraid of Putin … and we will sing in Red Square that we are the sons of Bandera.”
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Ruslan Marcinkiv
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Yes, most Ukrainians are not Nazis, but there are enough Ukrainians who revere Bandera. There are over a billion Muslims on earth, and only around 40,000 of them became fighters for ISIS. And yet, look at how much destruction they caused. With the American war in Iraq, Islamic fundamentalists had a reason to exist, they had an enemy to point to to get more recruits. As long as Russia’s conflict in Ukraine continues, the fascists of Ukraine will have a reason to increase in numbers.
Not only does Ukraine have ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi paramilitaries, but Islamist paramilitaries as well. Just as there was the Islamic Handžar Bosnian SS Division — recruited by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem — to serve Hitler, there is no shortage of the same in Ukraine today.   
Ali Bakaev, a Chechen activist who lives in Ukraine, <a href="https://themedialine.org/top-stories/chechens-are-fighting-on-both-sides-of-russian-ukrainian-conflict/">told</a> the kavkazr.com news agency that there are two Chechen battalions fighting the Russians in Ukraine: the Sheikh Mansour Battalion and the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion. “They defend Kyiv against the Russian troops along with other nationalities who live in Ukraine,” Bakaev said.
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Ali Bakaev
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On Sunday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged foreigners to head to Ukrainian embassies worldwide to sign up for an “international brigade” of volunteers to help fight invading Russian forces.
Chechen Islamist fighters in Syria now want to join the fray within Ukraine and have even condemned the pro-Russian leader of Russia’s Chechnya region Ramzan Kadyrov as an infidel apostate who departed from the religion of Islam for his support for Moscow’s war. A jihadist fighter close to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib <a href="https://www.apple.com/">told</a> Al-Monitor (on condition of anonymity):
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“The Chechens fighting with the Russian army are apostates. They have departed from the religion of Islam, even if they claim to be Muslims who fast and perform the five daily prayers. They are siding with an enemy who openly shows enmity against Islam. Volunteering in the Russian army is blasphemy and apostasy, let alone participating in a destructive war against Ukraine.”
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It is no wonder that Islamists are America’s perfect anti-Russia weapon.
Syrian journalist Ahmed Muwaffaq Zeidan, also in the Idlib province, said on Twitter, “The sight of thousands of Chechen soldiers praying before partaking in Putin’s Holocaust in Ukraine requires real Chechen leaders, not traitors, and the nation’s scholars to raise their voice in all languages against them and against their exploitation of Islamic slogans before they kill innocent people.”
Maysara bin Al (also known as Abu Maria al-Qahtani), another jihadist for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, said on Telegram: “It is not permissible for Chechen Muslims to support the criminal Russian [state] in fighting the Ukrainians. Muslims in Chechnya should not follow Kadyrov’s footsteps in his support for Putin. Russia has killed thousands of Muslims and is still killing them. Strengthening Russia in Ukraine means strengthening criminals. We ask God Almighty to turn Ukraine into a graveyard for Putin’s soldiers and those who support him.”
Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq al-Mahdi, who is close to Hayat Tahrir in Idlib, urged the Chechen mujahideen: “O Chechens, expel Putin and his military from your country, for it is your duty”. Hundreds of Chechen fighters in Syria are part of the Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of the Levant) Islamic militia led by Murad Margoshvili (also known as Muslim Abu al-Walid al-Shishani).
A source close to the Chechen fighters in the Jund al-Sham told Al-Monitor stated: “The Chechen jihadis in Idlib wish to be part of the Muslim fighters fighting the Russians in Ukraine, or at least to be allowed to fight against the forces of the Syrian regime and its ally Russia in northwest Syria.”
A known Chechen mujahideen in Ukraine named Adam Osmayev — <a href="https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/84796/posts/52765">leader</a> of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion — <a href="https://24tv.ua/perehodte-svitlu-storonu-chechenets-osmayev-zvernuvsya-do-rosiyskih_n1883988">called</a> on Russian soldiers to leave, or join the side of, Ukraine: “You can surrender, side with Ukraine, the light, the civilized world, leave your weapons and go home”. The Chechen mujahideen in Ukraine are battle hardened veterans from the jihad against the Assad regime in Syria. Not being able to legally return back to Russia after fighting in Syria, these Chechens chose to reside in Ukraine where they would continue their war against Russia. With about 500 volunteers, these Chechens fought the pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, against the self-declared Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk. Later waves of Chechen fighters migrated to Ukraine as the situation in Syria worsened, and they were all willing to resume the jihad against Moscow. During the fighting in Donbas in July of 2014, a Chechen battalion formed called the Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion, named after the jihadist leader and the first President of Chechnya of the same name. Its first commander was Isa Munaev, who died in the Battle of Debaltseve in 2015. Munaev was succeeded by British-educated Chechen national Adam Osmayev.
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Adam Osmayev
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Initially, the Dudayev Battalion was officially known as an “international peacekeeping battalion” founded in March of 2014 in Denmark by the Free Caucasus Organization, which was created in 2006 in Denmark by political emigrants from Caucasus countries in Europe. On March 26, it was announced that the 1st company of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion would be named after Sasha Bily (real name Oleksandr Muzychko), a neo-Nazi and mass murderer from the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People’s Self-Defence. While in Chechnya, Muzychko led the Viking detachment of Ukrainian nationalists and fought for the cause of the Chechen mujahideen group of Dudayev in the 1990s. In one battle, he ambushed a whole regiment of Russian marines, for which he received the Order of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s highest award of “Honor of the Nation” from the hands of Dzhokhar Dudayev. According to Vladimir Markin of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Muzychko was responsible for “killing at least 20 [Russian] soldiers held in captivity”.
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Oleksandr Muzychko
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Markin <a href="https://www.apple.com/">described</a> how “Muzychko personally tortured and then killed at least 20 captured federal forces, demanding the information he needed”, and how he “broke the fingers of the officers, gouged out their eyes with various objects, pliers pulled out their nails and teeth, cut the throats of some with a knife, and shot some.” If you want to see what monsters were fighting the Russians in Chechnya, then look at the footage from the Dagestani Massacre:
With the rise of the Euromaidan revolution, Muzychko became a prominent partaker and one of the organizers of the Maidan Self-Defense. He headed the ultra-nationalist paramilitary, “Right Sector”, throughout Western Ukraine. In February 2014, videos circulated online showing Muzychko at a meeting of the Rivne Regional Council with a weapon. In the video, he puts a machine gun and a pistol on the table, and then pulls out a hunting knife and puts it on the table and challenges: “Which of you wants to take my machine gun? Who wants to take my gun from me? Who wants to take my knives? Just try!”.
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Sashko Bily was buried next to those who died on the Euromaidan (the so-called “Heavenly Hundred”), which really attests to his significance in the revolution.
Fighting alongside Muzychko against Russian Federation forces in Chechnya was Dymytro Korchynsky who, in the 1990s, propagated the slogan “Crimea will be either Ukrainian or unpopulated”.
Both Muzychko and Korchynsky were part of the same paramilitary organization, the Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian People’s Self Defense.
In his memoirs of the Chechen War, published in 2005, Korchynsky  talks about how he was present as captive Russian soldiers were butchered like cattle, their throats slit before getting shot to ensure their deaths. (See Umland, Irregular Militias and Radical Nationalism in Post-Euromaydan Ukraine). Korchynsky besides being a writer and poet, is the leader of Bratstvo (“Brotherhood”), a (so called) Eastern Orthodox organization that had a hand in the creation of the Azov Battalion. (See Umland, Irregular Militias and Radical Nationalism in Post-Euromaydan Ukraine, p. 111) Korchynsky describes Bratstvo as “the Orthodox Taliban,” and on his website as “a Christian Hezbollah”. 
It was Chechnya where Korchynsky — witnessing the sword of Islam — found inspiration in the mixing of religion with politics. A nation, he once <a href="http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/politica/korch01.htm">wrote</a>, had to be born through violence: “In order to be born, a nation needs to kill someone. Most often, their parents. All nations are built by rascals, none is built by saints.” In his aspiration for an ultra-nationalist Ukraine, Korchynsky looks further to the East, to Lebanon. He finds his ideas manifested in Hezbollah, since it has its own governmental power and at the same time has its own paramilitary. Korchynsky holds that such a system would be fitting for Ukraine.  “We need to create something like a Christian Taliban,” he said in an interview with the Intercept. “The Ukrainian state has no chance in a war with Russia, but the Christian Taliban can succeed, just as the Taliban are driving the Americans out of Afghanistan.”
During the Euromaidan protests in December of 2013, members of Korchynsky’s paramilitary (calling itself the Jesus Christ Hundred, <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2_(%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA)">which</a> was a part of the Azov Battalion) attacked the presidential administration building (of then president Viktor Yanukovych). Korchynsky was seen on a bulldozer as rioters attempted to break through a police cordon on Bankovskaya Street.
In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, Korchysnky, frustrated by what he saw as weakness by the new Ukrainian government, desired to form a battalion from his Jesus Christ Hundred. In September of that year, Korchynsky formed a paramilitary to defend Mariupol — the City of Mary — and so he called it St. Mary’s Battalion.
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Dymytro Korchynsky with Muslim Cheberloevsky, in a video from March of 2022
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In a 2015 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/4/15/christian-talibans-crusade-on-ukraines-front-lines">interview</a> with al-Jazeera, Vitaly Chornly, the St. Mary’s Battalion’s head ideologue, stated: “We are creating the Christian Taliban here. Our main ideology is faith, and this is the advantage we have … The enemy – the forces of darkness – they have all the weapons, they have greater numbers, they have money. But our soldiers are the bringers of European traditions and the Christian mindset of the 13th century.” After this, Korchynsky became a fugitive on the international wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for his role in inciting the Euromaidan riots.  After the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Korchynsky returned to Ukraine and founded the St. Mary battalion to fight the East Ukraine separatists in the War in Donbas.
Like their Nazi predecessors, racial purity is amongst the objectives of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist fanatics. One of the goal’s of the far-Right paramilitary, Azov, is the purging of non-Whites in Ukraine. The main ideologue for Azov, Oleg Odnorozhenko, explained this mission:
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“Limitation and control will be implemented on all foreign ethno-racial groups and followed by deportation to their historical homelands. Based on the fact that we social nationalists regard the so-called “human races” as separate biological species, and the intelligent human being (Homo Sapiens), in the biological sense, only the White European Race [sic] (not including the notion of so-called “southern Europeanides,” i.e. the Mediterranean, Caucasian, Pamir-Fergana or other races who are biologically different from our biological kind) and consider our main duty to prevent any kind of inter-racial contacts (between species) that leads to inter-racial mixing (between species) and ultimately to the death of the White Race [sic].”   
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According to Odnorozhenko, the political system that Azov <a href="https://archive.ph/C7HTp#selection-1109.0-1120.0">aspires</a> to establish is called the natsiokratiya, which was thought out by the Ukrainian nationalists of the 1930s and 1940s, who combated Soviet forces and butchered tens of thousands of Poles and Jews. In this system, the government would consist of syndicates representing different classes of the population. The Azov battalion also wants Ukraine to shift to a strong foreign policy that would include the nuclear re-armament of Ukraine.
Since we have delved into the violent ideology of the far-Right in Ukraine, we would like to present some recent news clippings from Russian media outlets reporting on crimes done by Ukrainian fanatics on civilians, since such stories are not mentioned in the English language media:
From <a href="https://archive.ph/oZEnd#selection-1129.0-1141.199">Tsargrad</a>, March 9, 2022:
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“A resident of Vinogradnoye, recently rescued by the DPR troops, spoke about the situation in the city itself. According to her, there are no prohibitions for Ukrainian radicals – if the militants decide that their new position will be equipped in someone’s private yard, they will do it.
“They knocked out the fence, drove in, put up armored vehicles, put a sniper on the second floor. Just seizing someone else’s territory,” she said, adding that cars were being taken away from people.”
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From <a href="https://vz.ru/news/2022/3/11/1148120.html">Vzglyad</a>, March 11, 2022:
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“Residents of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol break out of it in separate rare groups, militants of the nationalist battalion “Azov” use them as hostages and “human shields”, said one of the Mariupol residents.
Humanitarian corridors opened by the Russian side operate in the city, but nationalists do not allow civilians to leave Mariupol, Channel Five reports, citing one of the residents of the city who managed to leave it.
Mariupol residents break out of the city in rare and small groups to a safe distance.
“The situation is difficult. Provide corridors. And they don’t take it out. They shot the bus,” the man said.
He explained that the shooting was carried out by Azov fighters, despite the existing humanitarian corridor.
“People sat down to leave. Two dead. A lot of wounded. They do not allow civilians to leave. They hide behind civilians,” the Mariupol resident stressed.”
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From <a href="https://tass.com/world/1417963">Tass</a>, March 6, 2002:
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“Ukrainian nationalists opened fire on a convoy of civilians trying to leave Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor, killing two and wounding four people, Deputy Head of the DPR People’s Militia Eduard Basurin said on Sunday.
“Today, Ukrainian gunmen from the nationalist Azov battalion opened fire on a convoy of civilians during their attempt to leave the city of Mariupol via the humanitarian corridor of M23 highway towards Novoazovsk. According to early reports, two civilians were killed and four wounded,” Basurin said.
As of now, military from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Russian Armed Forces have managed to ensure the save evacuation towards Novoazovsk for about 150 people, he added.”
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Ukraine Bio-Labs Exposed! – Watch

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Proof of the existence of U.S.-funded Bio-Labs in Ukraine are no longer a conspiracy theory.
As the majority of US media, as well as the federal government, refuse to admit the truth about the labs while alternative media outlets like Infowars have been at the forefront of proving their existence.
Infowars is right once again: We now have US and Russian officials confirming the existence of at least 30 US-backed bio-labs in the Ukraine:
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The Great Reset is The Great Con

More than a year ago, I pointed out that you shouldn’t look for logic in trying to figure out why COVID necessitates The Great Reset.
It’s a hustle, and not a very good one.
The main PR grifter, <a href="https://outsidetherealitymachine.com/2022/03/10/devils-deputy-talks-with-klaus-schwab-part-one/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Klaus Schwab</a>, founder of the World Economic Forum, points to the devastating economic consequences stemming from the pandemic. THAT’S why we have to reorder the whole planet.
But digging down a few inches below his bloviation, we see this: the economic devastation equals THE LOCKDOWNS.
In other words, the lockdown policy of governments brought on the economic horror story—and now, to correct THAT action—which never should have been taken in the first place—we have to transform the world by putting Globalists in complete control.
If you buy that line of thought, I have condos for sale on Jupiter.
Here is another translation of what Schwab is saying: With people reeling from the COVID restrictions, Globalists can pull a smoke and mirrors act and steal everything they haven’t already stolen.
Schwab then follows this up with a new pile of gibberish about turning corporations into “stakeholder capitalists.”
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Meaning: These companies would care more about their workers, their communities, their environmental impacts, and the planet.
The vague generalities are a tip-off. Somebody is going to have to define them and enforce them. That would be…who? A bureaucracy of vast size working for a global governance body.
If you have faith in such a system, I’m selling all of Jupiter. Cash only, up front.
A word about environmental impacts. If polluting corporations themselves weren’t controlling national departments of justice, we would already have a far cleaner environment. And many corporate CEOs—friends of Schwab—would be in prison.
Transforming “the global order” isn’t going to solve environmental problems. Reducing “our carbon footprint” by lowering energy production across the world—thus creating more poverty—isn’t a solution.
The need for a Reset doesn’t flow from COVID. The false pandemic was launched SO THAT a Reset could be ushered in.
Unfortunately, we have millions and millions of rubes and yokels who—when billionaires say LOVE AND PEACE and WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER—get down on their knees and exclaim FINALLY, A BETTER WORLD.
What would that better world actually consist of?
Wall to wall surveillance; universal guaranteed income tied to social credit score; elimination of private property; massive censorship; freezing and seizure of bank accounts; technologies deployed to re-program humans—this “Great Reset” is—miracle of miracles—a set of plans that sprang to life full-blown in the minds of Humanitarian Leaders AFTER COVID was announced in January of 2020.
Sure. You bet. Uh-huh.
The oldest con of cons is bait and switch.
Bait people with a story about a virus, and then while you’re “protecting them” from the fairy tale germ, switch over to the Reset. And say, “Don’t worry, it’s part of the protection.”
Here’s an argument mentally challenged people are fond of making: If you sincerely and earnestly want a better planet, that’s all that counts. The details, and who will take charge in creating that planet, are of minor importance. Leave the job to the experts.
But wishing doesn’t make it so. Generalities don’t automatically translate into desired outcomes.
How do you think leaders have always conned their followers? By promising them pain, suffering, poverty, and slavery? Leaders offer peace and happiness. They have to. The happiness will come in this life or the next. And it will be managed by entities the leaders promote.
Even when the manager is God Himself, it’s not your God, it’s the God in the stories the political leaders tell. He’s the one they want you to worship. They know you have your own, and they try to make you believe theirs and yours are the same.
They say there is a Plague in the land, and God or the Devil or Nature or a Lab sent it; and just over the horizon sits the overarching Answer; the beautiful Dawn. The Promise.
But it’s not the Promise in your heart. It’s the one in theirs.
So use your power to look into their hearts.
See what’s there.
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Watch: Biden Blames Covid, Putin for Skyrocketing Inflation, Gas Prices

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Joe Biden attempted to convince fellow Democrats his administration’s policies aren’t responsible for soaring inflation hitting the pocketbooks of everyday Americans.
Speaking at a House Democrats retreat in Philadelphia Friday, Biden blamed everything from the Covid pandemic to Russia for the spike in consumer prices.
Firstly, Biden claimed Democrats’ $2.2 trillion Covid relief bill “didn’t cause inflation.”
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Biden: Me spending more than $6T in less than a year & funding it w/ money printing “didn’t cause inflation” <a href="https://t.co/mIHAdU5a61">pic.twitter.com/mIHAdU5a61</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1502344127136112651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
Next, Biden attempted to blame high prices on the Covid pandemic which brought US production in many industries to a halt and caused a supply chain issue. However, the timeline doesn’t line up as the pandemic began under the Trump administration.
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Biden blames Covid in Thailand for skyrocketing inflation in America <a href="https://t.co/Fc0C5LdEPq">pic.twitter.com/Fc0C5LdEPq</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1502345621046546432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
He then shifted to blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine for the price hikes, and dismissed Republican assertions that his cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline any way contributed to higher prices.
However, many have pointed out Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has only been happening for a little over two weeks, while gas prices have been steadily increasing since Biden’s inauguration.
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PSAKI: “The increase [in gas prices]…is the direct result of the invasion of Ukraine"
Gas prices rose $1.14 from Biden's inauguration to the day Putin invaded. <a href="https://t.co/r9cRGgwn0A">pic.twitter.com/r9cRGgwn0A</a>
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“Make no mistake, inflation’s largely the fault of Putin,” Biden claimed.
He then went on to cite Washington Post and New York Times fact checks as evidence he’s in no way responsible for the rise in fuel prices.
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Biden: Dana Milbank agrees that it’s Putin’s fault American gas prices are skyrocketing <a href="https://t.co/exGeaZkQrd">pic.twitter.com/exGeaZkQrd</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1502346171687309315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
At the same time he discussed out of control inflation, Biden plugged Democrats’ Innovation bill, which <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/indy-dc-download-house-democrats-pass-innovation-bill-gop-complains-of-no-input" target="_blank">appropriates over $200 billion</a> in taxpayer funding over the next five years to technology research.
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In speech focusing on countering inflation, Biden threatens another $200 billion in taxpayer subsidies for tech companies <a href="https://t.co/Cw6xc8kGmd">pic.twitter.com/Cw6xc8kGmd</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1502347756874219524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
Elsewhere during his speech, he suggested the American people are too dumb to understand the various economic successes his administration has had, telling Dems, “Never forget what we’ve accomplished together so far. By the way, the American people just trying to stay above water don’t understand this. You tell them what the American Recovery Act was and they look at you like, ‘What are you talking about?’”
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Biden brags about the economy, then says:
“The American people just trying to stay above water don’t understand this” <a href="https://t.co/RqNuTIt8F9">pic.twitter.com/RqNuTIt8F9</a>
— Jewish Patriot 🚛 (@MAGAJew2) <a href="https://twitter.com/MAGAJew2/status/1502343920918880257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
Despite his efforts to gaslight the public into believing Russia caused inflation and not his bad policies, everyone with a memory – including CNN commentators – are rightfully dismissing Biden’s claims that the Ukraine crisis is responsible.
“It’s gonna mean higher prices, particularly for the consumers in those markets, right?” CNN economics commentator Catherine Rampell said Thursday. “Demand is really high right now. Supply has not been keeping up, even before the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian invasion. If we are now constraining supply even more, that’s gonna drive prices up.” 
Watch Biden’s full speech at the House Democrats’ retreat below:
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Ben Swann Report: Truth About U.S. Funded Bio-Labs in Ukraine

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The War In Ukraine Is A Step Towards Global War

armageddon The War In Ukraine Is A Step Towards Global War

The war in Ukraine does not mean that America is going to have troops on the ground tomorrow. The Ukraine conflict is merely one incrementa...

Can Russian oligarchs influence Putin’s war?

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Sanctions are one of the key ways the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22968949/russia-sanctions-swift-economy-mcdonalds">US and Europe are retaliating against Russia</a> for its <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/23/22948534/russia-ukraine-war-putin-explosions-invasion-explained">invasion of Ukraine</a>. These sanctions are throttling the Russian economy, and they’re particularly making life and business difficult for Russia’s oligarchs, an elite group of uber-wealthy people who began wielding enormous influence on Russian politics as they got rich during the privatization of the post-Soviet state.
Foreign governments around the world are seizing many oligarchs’ assets and yachts, banning them from travel, and cutting them off from doing most business with the US and Europe. The goal is to squeeze Russia’s wealthiest citizens, to censure and compel them to pressure Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to end his campaign against Ukraine.
“It’s the trillion-dollar question,” said Oliver Bullough, a journalist who writes <a href="https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/oligarchy/">a newsletter about oligarchy</a> at Coda. “Can these people restrain Putin?”
But it’s important to realize that since Putin was elected in 2000, the oligarchy in Russia doesn’t work the way it used to; its members have a lot less power and influence than they once did. These punishing sanctions have so far prompted only muted comments about Ukraine from a few oligarchs, many of whom are based outside of Russia.
“Putin has brought oligarchy in-house,” Bullough told Recode. “And now we’ve got much more of a system akin to the Tudor court of Henry VIII, with a king and then a number of aristocrats around him who own their property as long as he’s prepared to tolerate them.”
“The word ‘oligarchy’ is a bit out of date, in a weird way, but we don’t have a better one,” Bullough added.
<h3>The limited power of Putin’s oligarchs 2.0</h3>
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, the world has been grappling with questions of how the conflict might end, and whether Putin’s advisers or the country’s class of elites — once so <a href="https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/handle/187644">influential</a> within the Kremlin — could play a part.
But the idea that individual oligarchs could sway Putin now is a misunderstanding of modern Russia, said Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and author of Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin. “That’s how Russia operated 15 or 20 years ago,” Judah said, “not how Russia operates today.”
Reining in Russia’s oligarchs was something Putin promised during his first campaign for president, and he didn’t wait long to start. In 2003, Putin arrested and jailed Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who owned a 78 percent stake in Russia’s massive Yukos oil company and was at the time Russia’s wealthiest man. Khodorkovsky was officially charged with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/world/police-in-russia-seize-oil-tycoon.html">financial crimes</a>, but he was also funding Putin’s opposition parties.
The example Putin set by arresting Khodorkovsky was clear: “The oligarchs essentially realized that they owned their wealth only as long as [Putin] wanted them to own it. That changed their entire approach to politics. It also increased their motivation to get more wealth outside of Russia, to get as much as possible offshore, where it would be safe,” Bullough told Recode.
Meanwhile, a new kind of oligarch gained power: the siloviki, which mainly describes businessmen who have connections to the Federal Security Service, the police, and the military. The siloviki were instrumental in Putin’s consolidation of power, serving as his muscle. They’ve become extremely wealthy thanks to their proximity to the president, creating a class of “silovarchs” who are even more dependent on Putin than oligarchs who accumulated their wealth in the 1990s.
All Russian oligarchs’ power and wealth is tenuous, and they know it. That’s why the limited number who have spoken up so far about the war are ones who hold foreign passports or reside outside of Russia. Some oligarchs, and <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-oligarch-children-athletes-putin-b2023862.html">even their children</a>, have called for peace — but without explicitly condemning Putin.
Oleg Deripaska, a Russian industrialist currently worth a little over <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/oleg-deripaska/?sh=664ebebf804c">$2 billion, according to Forbes</a>, called peace “very important.” “The whole world will be different after these events and Russia will be different,” he <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/war-dividing-russian-ukrainian-brothers-billionaire-fridman-says-2022-02-27/">wrote on Telegram</a>. He was sanctioned by the US government back in 2018 for his ties to Putin in the wake of allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
Mikhail Fridman, founder of Alfa Bank, called the invasion a tragedy <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60557081">during a press conference</a>. But when asked about using his influence to put pressure on the Kremlin, Fridman responded, “You should understand that it’s a very sensitive issue,” and said that he could not put his partners and staff at risk by commenting on Putin. He was sanctioned by the EU on February 28.
Evgeny Lebedev, who owns British newspapers the Independent and the Evening Standard, <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/president-vladimir-putin-please-stop-ukraine-war-evgeny-lebedev-b985076.html">wrote an op-ed in the Standard</a> imploring Putin to stop the war. Lebedev holds dual Russian and British citizenship; he’s also a member of the British peerage. He has not been sanctioned.
Again, these measured reactions from oligarchs shouldn’t come as a surprise. Stanislav Markus, a University of South Carolina professor who has extensively researched Russia’s oligarchs, told Recode that direct criticism of Putin would be “a pretty dangerous position to hold.”
“When it came to this decision to go all-in in Ukraine, Putin took the decision essentially alone,” said Judah, the Atlantic Council senior fellow. “Over the last few years, Putin has become increasingly distant from the old so-called inner circle and the Russian elite in general.”
Judah cited a scene from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/21/putin-angry-spectacle-amounts-to-declaration-war-ukraine">security council meeting</a> Putin called on February 21, shortly before invading Ukraine. Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, stammered when Putin asked if he supported recognizing the independence of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082345068/why-luhansk-and-donetsk-are-key-to-understanding-the-latest-escalation-in-ukrain">Donetsk and Luhansk</a>, two Ukrainian territories that have been controlled by pro-Russia rebels for almost a decade.
“The way Putin spoke to him made him so scared that he forgot what topic was being discussed,” Judah said. “So if Sergey Naryshkin is that frightened of Putin, seemingly that distanced from him, there’s very little chance for those businessmen to simply walk in and stop him.”
The narrative that Putin’s siloviki — or other oligarchs — could meaningfully dissent is “wishful thinking,” Judah said.
“[The sanctions] may indeed cause grumbling and dissatisfaction and fear in the political system,” he continued. But when it comes to what might happen with Putin, he said we should think about “what happens to dictators, not what happens to strongmen with governments.”
<h3>How Putin’s war could influence power in the long run</h3>
If this war truly was <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/ukraine-invasion-putin-is-ruling-alone.html">Putin’s decision</a> alone, then he’s both in control and in isolation.
Squeezing Russia’s oligarchs may not lead to Putin doing an about-face in a war that he’s already indicated he’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/2/23/22945781/russia-ukraine-putin-speech-transcript-february-22">willing to sacrifice</a> so much for. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t have an impact later. These sanctions will have aftershocks; if anything, they reveal to the Russian oligarchy the limits of their power and how their fortunes are tied up with an authoritarian who’s begun closing them off from almost the rest of the world in pursuit of war.
How they’ll react is an open question.
Markus, whose research investigates what Russia’s oligarchs want and how they try to influence the government, told Recode that part of the reason they haven’t pushed back often against their government is that the existing global financial playground lets them keep so much capital offshore. With so much of their wealth stashed outside of the Kremlin’s grip, there’s less of a pressing need to demand that the Kremlin reform.
Prolonged sanctions could increase desire among Russia’s elite for institutional change, even as achieving it remains difficult. Over the years, <a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2017/07/06/russian-oligarch-vladimir-yevtushenkov-falls-from-grace-again">Putin has shown them</a> how easy it is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/sergei-pugachev-putins-banker-interview-lives-in-fear">fall out of his favor</a>, and the dire consequences of that.
“If before, they thought, ‘Whatever the Kremlin does, I still have my profitable trade with the United States or Europe or whomever, I don’t need to get political in Russia,’ now, more and more, they’re being pushed against the wall,” Markus said.
 
 
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A judge sentenced actor Jussie Smollett to 150 days in prison Thursday for filing multiple false police reports alleging he was the victim of a brutal homophobic hate crime.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Linn tore into Smollett during sentencing.
“You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,” the judge told Smollett, adding, “Your very name has become an adverb for ‘lying.’”
“Your performance on the witness stand can only be described as pure perjury,” the judge also told him. “You are now a permanently convicted felon.”
“There is nothing that I can do here today that will come close to the damage you’ve already done to your own life,” Linn added. “You turned your life upside down by your misconduct and shenanigans.”
“I believe that you did damage to real hate crime victims,” the judge said, chastising the disgraced actor.
“The officer asked you a simple question. And then you start to lie and haven’t stopped lying since,” the judge said. “You’ve been lying and lying and lying about this case, and that’s why you’re here today.”
The former Empire cast member reportedly responded to the sentence by repeatedly yelling, “I am not suicidal!”
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Wild moment: After getting sentenced to 150 days in jail, Jussie Smollett maintains his innocence and repeats how he is not suicidal.
"I am not suicidal. I am innocent and I am not suicidal … if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself." <a href="https://t.co/AnDsLcINKL">pic.twitter.com/AnDsLcINKL</a>
— The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1502084342239088652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
 “If anything happens to me in there, I did not do it,” he also reportedly said.
Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/03/10/jussie-smollett-gets-150-days-in-jail-30-months-probation-youre-just-a-charlatan-havent-stopped-lying/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reports</a> Smollett was sentenced to “150 days in Cook County jail, 30 months of probation, pay a restitution of $120,106, and a fine of $25,000.”
Last December, Smollett was <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/jury-finds-jussie-smollett-guilty-of-falsely-reporting-fake-hate-crime/" target="_blank">found guilty</a> on 5 of 6 felony disorderly conduct counts, each carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
The charges stemmed from a January 2019 incident, in which Smollett, 39, hired friends to help him stage a fake hate crime attack, where he was assaulted by two Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, before declaring, “MAGA Country!” pouring bleach on him, and putting a noose around his neck.
The case caused tumultuous upheaval in Chicago after Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx moved to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/all-charges-against-empire-actor-jussie-smollett-dropped-n987446" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">drop all charges</a> against Smollett in March 2019, prompting police union protests that forced Foxx to recuse herself from the case.
After Foxx recused herself, a special prosecutor <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-kamala-harris-jussie-smollett-an-attempted-modern-day-lynching" target="_blank">took over</a> the investigation and found Smollett did indeed file numerous false police reports, leading a Cook County grand jury to return a six-count indictment against him.
Following the fake attack fellow Hollywood actors and many Democrat politicians, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, jumped to blame racism for the former “Empire” actor’s attack.
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What happened today to <a href="https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JussieSmollett</a> must never be tolerated in this country. We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie. <a href="https://t.co/o8ilPu68CM">https://t.co/o8ilPu68CM</a>
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1090422326783606784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JussieSmollett</a> is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery.
This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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