Ukraine's History with Nazism, Soros & US interference
The one thing that became obvious since the Maidan 2014 putsch was the existence of large numbers of Nazis in Ukraine, a fact I wasn't aware of when I visited the country several times between 1999 and 2008. I saw no evidence that Nazism was popular, back then.
This changed after the Maidan Putsch of 2014. One of the major political forces that emerged after the Putsch was the misleadingly named "Svoboda party" - "Freedom party".
They could even form a functional militia, the Azov Batallion, on par with official military units and they gained significant numbers of seats in the government. The fact that they support the Zelynsky regime - although Zelyinsky is Jewish - shows that there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than we are being told.
This Nazi Azov Batallion has been the main fighting force of Ukraine, first against Donbass, now against the Russian invasion. Yes, they definitely consider themselves as "true Nazis":
Their tattoos are a dead givaway. Honestly, I cannot imagine anything more stupid than to get such tatoos...
It's pretty obvious that Nazi culture remained widespread, in Ukraine, although it only went public after Maidan 2014, to the point where one can now buy this kind of toys:
The municipal council of Kiev decided to rename a street to "Volodymyr Koubiyovytch", an infamous Nazi collaborator and co-founder of the SS Galicia Division, which actively participated in the Holocaust!
It should not have been all that surprising, considering Ukraine's affinity with Germany.
Ukraine, Germany and Antisemitism
In Bulgakov's book "The White Guard", he writes about how Ukrainians admired the Germans and especially German soldiers, during WWI. They counted on the Germans to protect them against the Red Army. But when Germany officially lost the war, the Germans literally collapsed - their entire proud demeanor was wiped away. They withdrew and left Ukraine to its fate.
Bugakov was Ukrainian, his house is now a museum in the center of Kiev.
This is him as relief next to the entrance:
There's also a statue of him just outside the museum (copyright notice: all the photos from Ukraine are my own and yes, they are not always the of the best quality...):
Despite the fact that they felt abandoned and despite Hitler's alliance with Stalin, many Ukrainians still thought that the Germans were liberating them during WWII and they could finally get some payback for the Holodomor, so they just adopted the entire Nazi ideology and helped the Nazis to execute their Jewish population.
This is a very detailed article about the Ukrainian Holocaust by Bullets
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/ukraine-holocaust
Antisemitism in Russian culture has been running deep. The orthodox, unlike the Catholics, had not extended protections to the Jews - for those unaware of it, this is one of several Papal Bulles that grant the Jews protection from the Catholic church:
Papal Protection of the Jews, Pope Gregory X 1271-1272
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg10/g10jprot.htm
In Eastern Europe and Russia, Jews had typically been forced to live in ghettos and were prohibited from working in most professions, so the majority of Jews were poor. Idiotic conspiracy theories ran rampant. The infamous garbage of the "Protocols" were produced in Russia by Czarist agents.
This largely explains why many Eastern European and Russian Jews were drawn towards Communism, although Marx & Engels hated Jews, Judaism and Slaves. They did not think that a Marxist revolution could succeed in what they considered to be "backward" and "primitive" countries. Their disdain went so far that they never mentioned any of the Jewish socialist groups that had formed in Eastern Europe and Russia, although they reported on any crappy little socialist group elsewhere on the planet.
Those Eastern European Jews were blissfully unaware of Marx's and Engels' antisemitism and their hatred towards them. They thought that the "liberation" they preached would liberate them from centuries of actual oppression. The Czarist regime was pure evil, but to replace it with Marxism was a typical case of "driving out the devil with satan" (or as the Germans say: "Den Teufel mit Belzebub austreiben").
Jews who adopted Marxist ideas always turned against Judaism and often against fellow Jews, imitating Marx, which makes the attempt to equate Jews with Communism so grotesque. Trotsky, when he was the leader of the Red Army in Moscow, refused to offer any protection to the Jews who were prosecuted by the Soviets, even when a rabbi came to beg him to spare his community.
Stalin, who was Georgian, definitely didn't like Jews, either. That's why he had joined the Bolsheviks, not the Mensheviks, because there were fewer Jews. He realized that he needed them during the war, to get money from wealthy Jews abroad, which is why he suspended his prosecution of Jews for a time, but shortly after the war, he started sending them to the Gulag again.
The fact that many Jews turned against their own and against Judaism is one of the best illustrations of why identity politics are so dumb. It's not because someone is of the same race, ethnicity or culture as you that they will side with you.
Europeans and Americans should be well aware of this, by now... but too many are not and keep promoting their own version of identitity politics. Just like Ukrainians who caused much of the current problems by exacerbating the problems with the Russian minority in their country.
WWII and the USSR
The legacy of the USSR remains omnipresent throughout Ukraine, mostly through all the crappy buildings. It's hard not to be depressed and alcoholic when you look out the window and you see this - the glorious Soviet skyline of Dneprozershinsk:
I was staying with the architect who had built half the city in the days of the USSR. He showed me the glorious projects they worked on during his studies and how he immediately wanted to suggest improvements for the buildings they had him design. He was told that he should better stop criticizing and just do what he was told, so he built what he knew to be garbage.
In the days of the USSR, this was probably considered a high-end apartment building:
Every time I hear people complain about the American "suburbia", I wonder if they would really prefer the Soviet version - landing in Depropetrovsk (and you do not want to see the airplane I was on š; most people would have refused to board it):
Another left-over from of the Soviet industry is this harbour in Nikolaev (or Mycolaev, variant transliteration), where old military ships were literally rotting away...
An aircraft carrier had been under construction in this harbor when the USSR fell. A Chinese businessman bought the hull, pretending that he wanted to turn it into a casino. He was actually a frontman for the CCP, which turned that hull into the first Chinese aircraft carrier with that distinctive Soviet design:
https://laststandonzombieisland.com/2011/12/15/26-years-later-the-chinese-have-an-aircraft-carrier/
Many statues had still not been removed, including quite a few Lenin statues. This one here is from Nikolaev as well:
The memory of WWII has been cultivated in the entire Soviet Union and that tradition persisted. On the 8th of May, they regularly celebrate their "victory over the Nazis" by depositing flowers at war monuments:
This is an interesting image - it looks like graffiti, but it was probably official Soviet propaganda about the uprising on the battleship Potemkin, which was also the subject of a Soviet propaganda movie by Eisenstein, the most famous movie director of the USSR:
Here is an article about that battleship's history:
https://www.rbth.com/history/326276-what-happened-to-battleship-potemkin
One of the things I found striking about Ukraine was all the decomissioned military equipment used as monuments, as playgrounds and even just decoration:
It's strange to think that those kids are now probably fighting in the war ... š„
Have you ever seen a disco and bowling using anti-aircraft canons as decorations? This one here even uses an German WWII 88mm artillery piece:
A WWII T-80 tank was used as monument in Dnepropetrovsk. That plastic stuff is not trash, those are flower bouquets people deposited in memory of the war. In 2007. Let that sink in...
In Kiev, they created an entire museum with Soviet military equipment - I wonder how much of this they tried to re-commission for the current war:
Artillery pieces before the towers of an ancient orthodox monastery on the outskirts of Kiev. The USSR developed their early computers in that monastery in the 1950s.
Pop culture: colorfully painted tanks...
On a side note, the villages are very poor, which is why most of the people try to move to the cities, even if they are crappy as well:
Main features of Ukraine: big, flat and mostly empty:
The Maidan Putsch of 2014
What has been happening in Ukraine since 1993 is an utter shame. The country never really managed to recover from the catastrophic Soviet mismanagement. The post-Soviet regime was perhaps even more corrupt than in Russia.
The Maidan Putsch made everything much worse. There were serious efforts to liberalize Ukraine before 2014. While they opened up somewhat towards the west, e.g. by unilaterally abolishing the visa requirement for vistors from western countries, they also tried to improve their relations with Russia. The Putsch was basically meant to remove a slightly pro-Russian president who had been legitimately elected.
This Putsch was orchestrated by Soros and Obama. Soros had his fingers in the country since 1990, i.e. even before the fall of the USSR, and that's based on the Open Society's own web site:
The Open Society Foundations in Ukraine
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/the-open-society-foundations-in-ukraine
NB: They updated this entry recently. The original introduction said:
The International Renaissance Foundation, a part of the Open Society Foundations, was established in Kyiv in April 1990. At the time, Ukraine was still part of the rapidly collapsing Soviet Union, placing the new foundation at the forefront of the effort by George Soros, the founder and chair of the Open Society Foundations, to use his fortune to assist the former Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe.
After Ukraine became fully independent in 1991, the new foundation gradually expanded its support for Ukraineās often-painful transition to democracy and a market economy. The Open Society Foundationsā immediate focus in Ukraine and other former Communist states was modernization and reform of moribund national institutions, and support for emerging civil society groups.
By 1994, the International Renaissance Foundation was the biggest international donor in the country, with an annual budget of roughly $12 million for projects that ranged from retraining tens of thousands of decommissioned soldiers to the creation of a contemporary arts center in Kyiv. In the early 2000s, the foundation oriented itself around European integration, while mobilizing resources to help those affected by conflict after Russiaās invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. Over its lifetime, the foundation has supported more than 18,000 projects, benefiting millions of people."
So Soros claims that he "helped" Ukraine in their transition. Looking at the outcome, I would personally have downplayed any involvement... and honestly, an international contemporary art center was not an absolute priority for the people of Ukraine.
Soros openly bragged about his role in the disastrous Maidan Putsch:
Transcript of CNN interview with Soros:
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2014-05-25/segment/01
SOROS: Well, I set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent of Russia. And the foundation has been functioning ever since and played an important part in events now.
Soros dismissed questions about antisemitism in Ukraine in the interview and instead blamed Putin and the Russian-leaning part of Ukraine. Considering the fact that actual Nazis joined the regime he helped put in place, that's a pretty bold lie.
He also blamed Putin on "anti-EU forces in Europe". Uhmm, the only thing that makes people anti-EU is the EU! The entire EU model of governance is entirely modeled on the USSR and the one thing they want to eliminate is popular consent. Take the construction of the Euro: as Attali proudly proclaimed, they "forgot" to add an exit clause, as they to use it as a tool to force the EU members to form an actual federal government, surrendering their autonomy and sovereignty completely to become the equivalent of Soviet republics controlled by an all-powerful Commission (like the Soviet Politbureau) and a powerless elected EU parliament (like the Soviet Duma).
There's a libertarian perspective from the Ron Paul institute that is alway worth reading:
Documentaries about the Maidan Putsch
Interestingly and to my surprise, I found that some of the sharpest criticism against Soros comes from left-wing sources I would have assumed would be aligned with Soros, considering that he finances many of the most extreme leftists on the planet.
Oliver Stone - someone I generally dispise - produced the documentary "Ukraine on Fire", in which he denounced Soros and the US government's involvement with the Maidan Putsch. He made the documentary available for free on YouTube, which censored it under the pretext that it showed "excessive violence" - the kind news channels usually show. It is available in full on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014's Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? "Ukraine on Fire" by Igor Lopatonok..
Netflix produced its own version of a "documentary":
"Winter on Fire"
https://www.netflix.com/title/80031666
This German article addresses this censorship and the 2 different takes on the Putsch (I trust my readers know how to translate web pages):
A German Marxist web site published the translation of a Russian anti-Soros article about Ukraine:
https://linkezeitung.de/2022/04/21/george-soros-was-in-der-ukraine-passiert-ist-mein-bestes-projekt/
Interestingly, the same site documents how Soros and Biden made billions in Ukraine after the Maidan Putsch. Apparently, those German Marxists have not yet been roped in by Soros š¤
I won't really go into Biden's corruption in Ukraine. His own statements and Hunter's laptop have already been extensively documented. It's just worth remembering that Biden is a merely a vehicle for corruption. He's being used by others and he just gets a cut of the profits ("40% for the big guy" or so).
Why would Soros support Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
For Soros, profit is not his motivation. When you spend $30 billion on political influence, you don't care about money, you care about power and about changing the world. Soros wants a world government, which would be the worst possible outcome for humanity!
As Soros is a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor, it would seem strange that he should support Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Except that Soros is not religious - so only ethnically Jewish - and ideologically a Marxist. He admitted in a New Yorker article from 1995 that his mother was openly antisemitic:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/the-world-according-to-soros
I commented this article extensively in this essay here:
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1324818267218382855
To escape the Holocaust, his family split up. His parents left him in the guard of a Hungarian Nazi supporter who stole property from victims of the Holocaust. Soros participated in his looting and stated on 60 Minutes that this was "not difficult at all" for him:
Soros repeatedly stated that he did not believe in "tribal" affinities and did not want to support a Jewish identity or State. He's been openly anti-Israel for decades:
Israel backs Hungary, says financier Soros is a threat
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-hungary-soros-idUSKBN19V1J4
Soros is persona non grata, in Israel - he is not allowed to enter the country.
When Joe Biden's and Soros' involvement in Ukraine were questioned, in 2019, Salon, one of the mouth pieces of the Great Reset cabal, published this article:
Ex-top White House official debunks Soros conspiracy theory tied to every aspect of Trump's Ukraine mess
It's impossible to know what is supposed to be "Trump's Ukraine mess". All Trump did was call out Biden's corruption, which Biden personally and publicly joked about at a CFR meeting.
Although Soros himself actively supports antisemitic and anti-Israel politicians and organizations, his agents dare to accuse his opponents of being motivated by antisemitism:
"This is the longest-running anti-Semitic trope that we have in history, and a trope against Mr. Soros was also created for political purposes, and this is the new Protocols of The Elders of Zionā
It would seem rather difficult to call the Israeli government "antisemitic", which makes it so enlightening when they misuse the term "debunk" for "lying about fully documented facts", which in this case includes Soros' own CNN interview above. Maybe Soros could stop funding the Ukrainian Nazis and people such as Rachida Tlaib, who wants to "nuke" Israel, then we can talk about antisemitism...