Kermit Heartsong - Ukraine - ZBIG's Grand Chess Board & How The West Was Checkmated

On March 4, 2014,US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev to show unconditional support for the newly elected coup-government, despite the fact that it was clearly unconstitutional by Ukrainian law.

On March 5, 2014,a leaked telephone conversation between Estonian Foreign Minister, Urmas Paet, and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, appeared on the internet. The call found Minister Paet providing information to Ashton about his visit to the Ukraine regarding the information he had received from a Maidan doctor, Olga Bogomolets. Dr. Bogomolets stated that the people and police who were shot during the protest were shot by the same snipers. Paet then expressed his dismay to Ashton that the new coalition was unwilling to investigate the incident, which both Dr. Bogomolets and Paet believed pointed to the new coalition as responsible for the attacks. Paet also conveyed to Ashton that, “there is very strong pressure on the members of parliament.” He told Ashton that journalists had witnessed armed men beating a deputy in broad daylight in front of the Verkhovna Rada.

From March 6—31, 2014,the new coalition and its various “security” and “self-defense” adjuncts participated in the following activities as reported by Meyssan (2014):

•The governor of Donetsk, Pavel Gubarev, was detained by Ukrainian security services and tortured in a prison in Kiev, where he subsequently fell into a coma, as detailed in reports by the prison’s physicians.

•Pravyi Sektor activists gunned down E. Slonevsky, a local businessman, at a cafe in Kharkov.

•Thirty masked men with wooden sticks occupied the Sviatoshynskyi district prosecutor’s office in Kiev and threatened the senior prosecutor to resign and, upon his refusal, he and a colleague were severely beaten.

•N. Naumenko, the director of the Migration Services of Ukraine, refused to give Pravyi Sektor activists the files of refugees and was subsequently beaten and stabbed in the face.

•In Uzhgorod, Maidan activists tortured the wife and son of a former regional official and robbed them. (Meyssan 2014)

On March 21, 2014, having been immediately recognized by the West as the legitimate government of Ukraine, despite the unconstitutional succession of the new regime, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, acting Prime Minister (as selected by Victoria Nuland), signed the EU — Ukraine Association agreement much desired by the West.

Within weeks after being recognized by the West, the violence as directed by Kiev, would escalate markedly and the talk of civil war would soon begin.

Nazis In The House

Though Western mainstream media has been loath to report on or to bring evidence forward of neo-Nazis serving in key positions in Ukraine’s current ruling coalition, the facts are hard to ignore.

The main organizations from which the various neo-Nazis have come are Svoboda and the Right Sektor or the Pravyi Sektor parties.

Svoboda: The Svoboda party was founded in 1991 as the Social National Party of the Ukraine, a direct reference to Adolph Hitler’s National Socialist party. It had even adopted the Nazi Wolfsangel logo, which closely resembles the swastika (Ryan 2014). In 2004, when Oleh Tyahnybok assumed the leadership, the party changed its name to Svoboda, presumably, an attempt to moderate its image, while maintaining its neo-Nazi heart and soul (Ryan 2014). As Professor John Ryan explains in his article, “The Media’s Disinformation Campaign on Ukraine: There Are No Neo-Nazis in the Interim Government,” the man long idolized by the Svoboda party, Stepan Bandera, was a Nazi Collaborator:

From its very beginnings as the Social National Party, Svoboda has idolized Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator who formed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and organized the Ukrainian Waffen SS Galician Division — from 82,000 initial Ukrainian volunteers, the Nazis trained only 13,000 for battle. The division was then sent to fight the Russian and Ukrainian Soviet army, but this unit was decimated at the 1944 Battle of Brody, leaving only 3,000 who went on to form the nucleus of a further rebuilt SS division, later to become the core of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. (Ryan 2014)

The article goes on to mention an extremely brutal aspect of the Bandera-led division, when it came to the massacre of civilians and religious and ethnic minorities:

Aside from fighting the Soviet army, Bandera’s forces assisted the Nazis by willingly killing off tens of thousands of Poles and Jews, and actively took part in the BabiYar massacre and the Holocaust in general. Although Bandera had some disagreements with the Nazis and was imprisoned for a while, he and his followers never disagreed with the Nazi Jewish policy in Ukraine, which eventually killed over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews. (Ryan 2014)

To date, the Svoboda leadership remains proud of Bandera’s collaboration with the Nazis and the atrocities it inflicted. In a 2004 speech, Oleh Tyahnybok urged Ukrainians to fight against the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia” (Ryan 2014). Svoboda’s ideologist, Yuri Mikhalchishin, a Tyahnybok deputy, has alluded to the Holocaust as a “bright period” in European history.

This is all especially interesting, in light of the current Western refusal to acknowledge that there are, in fact, neo-Nazi’s serving in Ukraine’s government.

The European Parliament passed a resolution (#8) in December 2012, which directly targeted Svoboda and which stated:

[The European Parliament] is concerned about the rising nationalistic sentiment in Ukraine, expressed in support for the Svoboda Party, which, as a result, is one of the two new parties to enter the Verkhovna Rada; [and] recalls that racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views go against the EU’s fundamental values and principles and therefore appeals to pro-democratic parties in the Verkhovna Rada not to associate with, endorse or form coalitions with this party. (Ryan 2014)

It would appear that memories in the West and in the European Parliament, in particular, are quite short when political expediency is required.

Right Sektor(Prayvi Sektor). The Right Sektor was formed in 2013 as an umbrella organization that included several paramilitary groups, including the Ukrainian National Assembly and the Ukrainian National Self Defense (UNA-UNSO) whose members dress in uniforms modeled on Hitler’s Waffen SS and have been fighting Russia for years, including in Chechnya (Ryan 2014). As of March 22, 2014, these groups have formed a singular political party with Dmytro Yarosh as their lead candidate for president.

Recently, Yarosh was placed on an international watch list after being charged with inciting terrorism when he urged Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov to launch attacks on Russia over the Ukrainian conflict. Yarosh has also threatened to destroy Russian pipelines on Ukrainian territory (Ryan 2014).

Despite deafening silence and, perhaps, the willful ignorance of the West, members from both Svoboda and the Right Sector hold, as of October 2014, key positions with the current Poroshenko Government, as detailed below. Whether they will still be serving in office as of the publication of this book will remain to be seen. However, when the coalition was formed the following neo-Nazis from Svoboda and the Right Sector rose to elected office, as documented by Richard Becker (2014):

• Dmytro Yarosh,a Right Sector neo-Nazi commander, became the second-in-command of the National Defense and Security Council (covering the military, police, courts and intelligence apparatus).

• Andriy Parubiy,the co-founder of the fascist Social National Party renamed Svoboda, became the top commander of the National Defense and Security Council.