Here are prime examples of how western media plays the events there as
being based on a linguistic east/west divide or the mergence of "fascism"
the bugaboo scare word next to "anti-Semitic" or "holocaust". How many
FSB/SBU special ops do they have posing, masquerading or drawing in na�ve
youth who can succumb to socialist/collectivist/racist propaganda.
Videos From Ukraine that The U.S. Media Will Never Show You
You'd never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and
fascists have been at the heart of the
protests<http://www.channel4.com/news/kiev-svoboda-far-right-protests-right-sector-riot-police>and
attacks on government buildings. One of the three main opposition
parties heading the campaign is the hard-right antisemitic
Svoboda<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)>,
whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok claims that a "Moscow-Jewish mafia" controls
Ukraine. But US senator John McCain was happy to share a platform with him
in Kiev last month. The party, now running the city of Lviv, led a
15,000-strong torchlit march earlier this month in memory of the Ukrainian
fascist leader Stepan Bandera, whose forces fought with the Nazis in the
second world war and took part in massacres of Jews.
So in the week that the liberation of
Auschwitz<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/27/world-marks-holocaust-memorial-day>by
the Red Army was commemorated as Holocaust Memorial Day, supporters of
those who helped carry out the genocide are hailed by western politicians
on the streets of Ukraine. But Svoboda has now been outflanked in the
protests by even more extreme groups, such as "Right Sector", who demand a
"national revolution" and threaten "prolonged guerrilla
warfare"<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/23/ukrainian-far-right-groups-violence-kiev-pravy-sektor>
.
http://scgnews.com/the-extreme-right-emerging-as-the-dominant-voice-in-Ukraine
Hardcore Ukrainian nationalism is not even the predominant feature of those
involved in active clashes with police. Neither of the two people killed by
bullets on Wednesday morning were ethnically Ukrainian. But it is clear
that the popularity of Pravy Sektor is growing and that many of those
lobbing molotov cocktails and preparing for all-out battle are influenced
by their ideas.
Tarasenko said it was hard to say how many active members of Pravy Sektor
there were, but noted that its page on the social network
Vkontakte<http://vk.com/public62043361>had more than 50,000 members.
On the barricades, "hundreds are quickly
turning into thousands", he claimed.
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