The Nazi “Big Lie”: “There is no widespread Nazi ideology in Ukraine today.”

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The Nazi “Big Lie”: “There is no widespread Nazi ideology in Ukraine today.”

Hitler’s minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels was the advocate of the big lie -- “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot


The New York Times reports:
In the months since President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called the invasion of Ukraine a “denazification” mission, the lie that the government and culture of Ukraine are filled with dangerous “Nazis” has become a central theme of Kremlin propaganda about the war. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/02/world/europe/ukraine-nazis-russia-media.html


In Ukraine today there are streets, statues and museums all glorifying the memory of Stepan Bandera, a fascist Anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator who murdered thousands of Jewish and Polish people including women and children during World War Two. Bandera believed in an “ethnically pure“Ukrainian state, free of Jews, Poles, Roma and Russians, similar to the Nazi Aryan master race ideology


In 2010 Ukrainian President Yushchenko declared Stepan Bandera a Hero of Ukraine.


In 2014 the leader of the Svoboda Party, active in the Coup that overthrew the elected government, declared that Ukraine was controlled by the Russian Jewish Mafia. Following the coup, extreme nationalist and neo Nazis marched in Odessa chanting “out with the Jews” and proceeded to burn down a trade union building killing some 50 people.


Ukrainian soldiers have been regularly seen wearing Nazi symbols.


General Zaluzhnyi of the Ukrainian army is an admirer of Bandera with his picture in his office.


The Nazi Azov battalion played a leading role in the Ukrainian armed forces.


Nazi/neo-nazi/fascist terrorism and violence increase in Ukraine and goes unpunished as reported by Freedom House. Far-right Extremism as a Threat to Ukrainian Democracy



2018, Stepan Bandera's birthday was declared a Ukrainian national holiday.



2019 police across Ukraine declared admiration for Nazi collaborator and mass murderer Stepan Bandera. https://www.rferl.org/a/banderite-rebrand-ukrainian-police-declare-admiration-for-nazi-collaborators-to-make-a-point/29764110.html#:~:text=KYIV%20%2D%2D%20Across%20social%20media,Nazis%20during%20World%20War%20II.


In 2020, Reuters estimated that Nazi-like militia forces constituted some 100,000 men within Ukraine.


2023, President Zalensky, applauds SS Nazi in Canadian Parliament, and calls him “a hero”.





“THOSE WHO FORGET HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT”

Nayvin Gordon, 10/2/2023
gordonnayvin [at] yahoo.com



References:

Flashpoint in Ukraine, 2014, edited by Stephen Lendman,

Monthly Review, April 2022, notes from the editors.

Understanding Gaslighting, Scientific American, October 2022

UKRAINE: LINKS TO INFO RE THE WAR https://www.pdrboston.org/ukraine-links-to-info-re-the-war
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