Thread by @BonicMichael

Truth via documentary but not thru journalism? On the roots of the Azov Battalion based in Mariupol:
“When WW2 broke out, a large part of Western Ukraine’s population welcomed the German
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2/"soldiers as liberators from the recently forced-upon-them Soviet rule and openly collaborated with the Germans...The most notorious and outrageous massacre took place September 29th & 30th, 1941, in Babi Yar, Kiev…33,771 Jews were killed in this 2-day operation of the Nazis

3/"and the Ukrainian militia...In this battle [Cold War b/t the US & USSR] the US never lost sight of Ukraine’s importance. US intelligence kept a close eye on Ukrainian nationalists organizations as a possible source of counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. CIA documents

4/"that just recently have been declassified show strong ties b/t US intelligence and Ukrainian nationalists since 1946. From the CIA agency report it is clear that they were not mistaken about the nature of the Ukrainian nationalists organization or their leader Stefan Bandera

5/"himself."

Western-backed Viktor Yushchenko defeated Russian leaning Victor Yanukovych in the 2004 elections and declared the extreme right nationalist Stefan Bandera a hero. Later in “2010 Viktor Yanukovych was elected President [and in] Jan 2011 repealed the hero title of

6/Bandera. The Maidan Revolution soon followed, Yanukovych was ousted and Petro Poroshenko was elected president of Ukraine from 2014-2019.

The battle for the soul of Ukraine is encapsulated by Ukraine's Army & Azov Battalion waging war against pro-Russian separatists. Zelensky

7/represents Western Ukraine & Ukrainians wanting to join the EU & NATO, many of whom are descendants of the German collaborators who committed war crimes against the Poles, Russians & Jews and to this day see Ukrainians as a pure race. East Ukrainians, those who voted for Viktor

8/Yanukovych, are in the Donbas region.

"Ukraine became once again became a battlefield of two forces - the Russian and Western governments."

The popular election was thrown out in what Putin sees as an American-assisted coup to install a pro-Western president of Ukraine.

9/The non-comprehension by journalists and the media of "de-Nazification", which Putin says he's doing to "liberate Ukraine from the Neo-Nazi nationalists", reflects an ignorance of the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Stephan Bandera and Western Ukrainians

10/role as German collaborators in WW2 and committing barbaric atrocities on the Poles, Russians and Jews whom they hated. The Azov Battalion and these Ukrainian youth 👇are unquestionably emulating Stephan Bander and see him as a hero as thy shout "Hang

11/Russians!"
So know that extreme right Neo-Nazi nationalist Stephan Bandera's dream has come true. USA is funding & aiding the offspring of the German collaborators & Nazi sympathizers who slaughtered Poles, Russians & Jews in WW2.
"Sieg Heil! Glory to Ukraine! Hang Russians!"

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