Since the openly West-backed Maidan Putsch in 2014, January 1st has been proclaimed a national holiday in Ukraine, celebrating the birthday of the genocidal WW2-era West Ukrainian fascist and anti-semite ideologue, terroristĀ insurgent leader, Nazi collaborator, and Holocaust perpetrator, Stepan Bandera.
For the last eight years it has been marked by horrifying torchlit nighttime parades of the regimeās NeoNazi deathsquads and brownshirts goose-stepping through the streets of the capital, Kiev.
This year the Kiev Putsch regimeās Parliamentary body the Rada, celebrated the fascist holiday with a tweet, now deleted, on Twitter showing the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 4 star general Valery Zaluzhny, standing smiling smugly, in front of a portrait of Stepan Bandera, accompanied by one of Banderaās quotes,
āThe complete and final victory of Ukrainian nationalism will come when the Russian empire ceases to exist.ā And then added, āA fight against the Russian empire is currently underway. And the precepts of Stepan Bandera are well known to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.ā
This is hardly the first such revelation. Zaluzhnyi is infamously known as open ideological supporter of Stepan Bandera, now officially glorified by the West-backed Kiev Putsch regime as a hero and āfounding fatherā of the new Ukraine under their rule and vision.
This is almost certainly one of the criteria for which he was chosen to lead the Kiev regimeās military forces.
In 2021, right after becoming the Kiev regimeās Commander-In-Chief, Zaluzhny officially appointed Dmitry Yarosh, the head and founder of the NeoNazi & white supremacist paramilitary group, the Right Sector, as his personal āsenior military advisorā.
And Zaluzhny obviously loves throwing around pr photo shoots of himself brazenly displaying his Banderite fascist bona fides. Yes ādespite the fact that his President, Zelenskiy, has a Jewish daddy.
This year, the Kiev regimeās Commander-in-Chief posted to his own Twitter account a āfrontlineā photo of him striding in uniform, with assault rifle in hand, prominently displaying a bracelet carved with swastikas.
Lamely the Western MSM echoed every crypto-NeoNazi ever by claiming, āIts not a swastika, its just an ancientĀ Viking symbolā. Seriously?
Ā Yeah, Iām sure the Bandera-worshipping head of the Ukrainian military was wearing swastikas just because heās secretly a Norse pagan.
In another photo from this year, Zaluzhnyi is shown in uniform standing in a military office with several other soldiers in front of a desk adorned with busts of OUN-B leaders and Nazi-collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. Photos of both Shukhevych and Bandera are also prominently hanging on the wall in the background along with the red and black Banderite flag.
Ā A separate photo taken of Zaluzhnyiās office also has a bust of Bandera displayed prominently for all to see on a table against the wall.Ā
In a recent interviewĀ with the Economist, Zaluzhny said flat out-
āWeāve been at war since 2014ā¦ And the most important experience we had and the one which we have practiced almost like a religion is that Russians and any other enemies must be killed, just killed, and most importantly, we should not be afraid, not hesitate, to do it. And this is what we are doing.ā
Yes they have been indeed killing Russians since 2014.
Ā In a civil conflict in country where 20% of the population is ethnic Russian and a significant proportion of the rest, particularly in the East, are Russian-speaking and regard Russians as a brother people, not as āthe enemyā.
This is the Banderite fascist Commander-in-Chief of a military armed, trained, given C4ISR, directed and puppeted by NATO and funded to the cost of now hundreds of billions of Western taxpayer dollars in a proxy war on Russia. Ā Heās celebrated in Western media reports, magazine covers, and newspaper front pages as a hero!
How can this be?
The grim reality is that as long as Zaluzhnyās hatred and violence, and that of his NeoNazi hordes, are directed, for the moment, primarily against ethnic Russians, āpro-Russian Eastern Ukrainiansā and leftists, then his brand of Banderite fascism is geopolitically useful to the West, and thus ākosherā.
Indeed the US and Canada have a long documented history of supporting Banderite fascists in Ukraine, and their analoques in the Baltics, back to the immediate aftermath of WW2.
Zaluschnyā¦Hey ā the bastard may be a fascist, but heās OUR fascist, god-damn it!
It's a waste of time trying to tell partisan Democrats--especially those in the self-styled Resistance--any of this. They are historically illiterate. They think that between George C Scott and Tom Hanks, the US won WWII single-handedly. And their concept of "diversity" does not include artificial countries that contain ethnic, religious, or ethnic minorities.
What does Russia propose to do about it?