1941. Ukrainian nationalists under Stepan Bandera with Nazi support, organized expedition groups which followed the advance into the USSR. Instructions were contained in a document, 'Struggle and Activities of OUN During Wartime.' The document contains explicit genocidal orders.
To subvert the natural aversion workers have to murdering each other, the OUN had produced constant racist incitement in its journal, Rozbudova Natsii, since 1929. But a sense of hopelessness was also cultivated. The new document attacked workers' hopes for socialist revolution.
Tragically, the political degeneration of the revolution under the Stalinist bureaucracy had opened up the ideological space for OUN's propaganda, which exploited the social division which had opened up in real life between the parasitic bureaucratic caste and the working class.
OUN commanded its soldiers to liquidate "unwanted Polish, Muscovite and Jewish figures, especially supporters of Bolshevik-Moscow imperialism." OUN's crimes in WWII are integral to nationalist politics, and were consciously politically prepared for years. More on that soon...
@anti_imperialUK Yes, I have tweeted primary sources detailing the relationships between OUN and German military intelligence. But to chalk up the OUN's ideology or actions entirely to some 'conspiracy' is fundamentally incorrect, and doesn't reflect the development of the historical process.
@anti_imperialUK Why was OUN attracted to Nazism? Because it was based in the petty bourgeoisie which had been deprived of its property and its 'rights' by the development of history, by the conquest of power by the working class. OUN and Nazis shared a common enemy - the revolutionary workers.
@anti_imperialUK Sure it’s a factor, but to point to it alone without drawing a picture of the underlying movement of class forces leads to the adoption of a conspiratorial view of history. Not saying that’s your take. Just inserting a note of caution.
@anti_imperialUK I want to 'blame Stalin' for a lot of things, but only the things for which he (and the bureaucracy) was responsible - destroying the revolution, murdering its leading cadre, and acting as the agency of world imperialism inside the workers' movement. I think that's quite enough.
@Parrots38 Well, if you ever come across it again, please share it with me. Digitized primary sources are hard to come by!
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🧵There is a political split in the petty bourgeois Palestinian leadership, and some elements are desperate to try to cover it up and silence debate about it, using moralizing identity politics to prevent anyone from elaborating a political analysis of it.
Palestinian journalist Motaz has issued a filthy statement blaming Palestinian resistance for Israel's genocidal actions. He has seemingly aligned himself with Fatah, just as the imperialist powers are promoting the quislings of Fatah as 'legitimate' Palestinian leaders.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly flew to Israel this week to meet with Netanyahu, and then to Ramallah to be photographed, along with Zionist MP Ya'ara Sacks, with Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Fatah is being prepared by imperialism to suppress the Palestinian resistance.
Imperialism lurches toward escalation because there simply are no more young Ukrainian men to draft into its war against Russia. There was a massive decline in Ukrainian births after the dissolution of the USSR, and most Ukrainian men aged 20 to 35 are either dead, or fled.
Ukraine has a massive surplus - of babushkas, due to WWII and its aftermath. Note the approaching third demographic crisis. The murder by imperialist war of most of the young males now threatens the very existence of Ukrainian people.
The Ukrainian population bulge in the graph represents Ukrainians born during the Soviet period. The Soviet Union produced lots of Ukrainians. Capitalist restoration, Ukrainian nationalism and fascism have, when combined, murdered more Ukrainians.
🧵The Israelis and imperialists are deliberately starving Palestinians in #Gaza, just as the Nazis developed the ‘Hunger Plan’ to starve the Jews and the Soviet working class in WWII. If Zionism looks like Nazism, it’s because Zionists are copying #Nazi policies to conquer Gaza.
Fact: the State of Israel has decided on a policy of #starvation against the population of #Gaza. The openly genocidal statements of Israeli leaders are a simple matter of public record. They are criminal self-indictments, which cannot be reinterpreted post facto, or taken back.
Retired #IDF General Giora Eiland described this plan in November 2023. “Severe epidemics in the southern Strip will bring victory closer and reduce fatalities among IDF soldiers.” Starving people are too weak to fight their occupiers. (See alt text) archive.ph/DmwAp
🧵Today we recall the Revisionist #Zionist movement of Vladimir Jabotinsky, political ancestor of the criminal Netanyahu. Like the the Ukrainian nationalists, the dependency of the Zionist bourgeois and petty bourgeois on world imperialism drove them towards fascism and genocide.
Jewish workers and peasants had an alternative to Zionism – revolutionary socialism. The conquest of power by the working class created the basis to destroy antisemitism, which arose historically, and can only be destroyed by workers acting consciously in the historical process.
1921. Jabotinsky made a secret pact with Maxim Slavinsky, ambassador of Ukrainian pogromist Simon Petliura, to send Zionist police with a 15,000 strong Ukrainian nationalist army, backed by France, to attack the Soviet Union, moving Jews out of Soviet Ukraine. The plan failed.
🧵To hear Zionists, the Oct 7th Palestinian uprising against illegal Israeli occupation is akin to ‘original sin.’ Each act of #Zionist barbarism is justified by the ‘bloodguilt’ of #Hamas. They are copying #Nazi propaganda techniques used against the Poles and Great Britain.
On Sept 3 1939, Germans in #Bydgoszcz Poland attacked a Polish military barracks, coordinated by German military intelligence. In response, the Polish majority of the town rose up and violently resisted. Approximately 400 German civilians and soldiers were killed over two days.
Historian Ian Kershaw writes: “For German propaganda, the attacks on ethnic Germans were exploited as an apparent justification for a policy of 'ethnic cleansing' that had surpassed in its first days anything that could be regarded as retaliation.” (see Alt text for full quote)
Canada's 'Nazi scandal' has been sitting in plain sight for decades. In 2010, the #Ukrainian Canadian Congress tried do draw a big equals sign between soldiers and others killed fighting the Nazis, and Ukrainian #Nazi collaborators who killed them. #Hunka ucc.ca/2010/11/11/ukr…
The 'First Division of the Ukrainian National Army' referred to above is the 14th #WaffenSS #Galizien Division. Below is their commanding officer, Friz Freitag. Fritz kept a diary, reducing his mass murder to such banalities as "114 prisoners taken, 283 Jews shot."
The Canadian state in the 1940s and 50s WANTED #Nazis, to go after #socialists in the working class. Upon arrival, that's just what the Nazis did. They attacked workers meetings across the country. On October 8th, 1950 they bombed Toronto's #Ukrainian Labour Temple .