Ultranationalist neo-Nazi parties on the march in Ukraine

Threat of anti-Semitic violence should cause international alarm

Wearing the uniform of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, nationalists in the western city of Lviv march with their red and black flag and Ukraine’s yellow and blue one in 2010 to commemorate anti-Soviet fighters.Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images

President Viktor Yanukovich’s sudden, surprise departure from Kiev is the beginning of a long ordeal for Ukrainians. It’s also the start of a major threat to the several hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews.

Anti-Semitic violence in Ukraine may come as a surprise to an American audience accustomed to optimistic portrayals of the swiftly changing events in U.S. media. The last weeks have been dominated by talk of vigils for democracy, for the EU, for Western ways, played out for the cameras in the bonfire-lit Independence Square.

The Russian media, by contrast, have devoted time, since autumn, to explicating the virulent history of the ultranationalist neo-Nazi parties from western Ukraine that rally under the black and red flag of the grandfather of Ukrainian fascist parties, the 85-year-old Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Its flag can be seen in pictures of the parliament building surrounded by masked and helmeted protesters.

In her Sunday appearance to discuss the crisis on “Meet the Press,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice was not asked about the fears of the Jews of Ukraine. Nor has the White House mentioned Jews or anti-Semitism during the several remarks directed at Moscow advising Russian President Vladimir Putin not to intervene in the Ukrainian chaos.

Ukrainian Jews, on the other hand, are speaking out loudly now that Kiev is descending into anarchy.

A grave threat

The transition agreement toward elections that was brokered on Friday between European Union ministers and Yanukovich was immediately broken by the Ukrainian fascists, according to my sources. Yanukovich then fled the capital, and law and order in the streets left with him. So did the safety of Ukraine’s Jews.

Rabbis in Kiev and across Ukraine spoke out, warning their congregations to stay off the streets and remain in their homes. The Jewish Agency in Jerusalem has moved swiftly to offer aid to elderly Jews living in greater Kiev. Food-delivery men are braving gunshots and Molotov cocktails to help them. Reports from Kiev say the police have been replaced by roving bands of undetermined loyalty.

Jewish organizations worldwide and the state of Israel regard the appeals from Ukraine as grave and immediate.

The fresh report of the firebombing of a new synagogue in Zaporizhia, 250 miles southeast of Kiev, increased the alarm in Israel and accelerated planning for all contingencies, including evacuations.

The Kremlin will act to protect the millions of Ukrainians and Russian citizens who are at risk from the fascists and anarchists in general.

In the coming days, either Yanukovich will choose to stay in Ukraine and contest the coup in Kiev or he will abdicate and pass the mess into the hands of the EU and Russia. Early indications from Moscow point to the likelihood that Yanukovich is unreliable.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was on the telephone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to sort out the failure of the EU to live up to the promises it made to Yanukovich and Moscow. Berlin insists that a solution for the disorder in Kiev not only includes a legitimate leadership with police power but also involves finding up to $27 billion to keep Ukraine solvent in its obligations.

My sources point to a calm, adamant, confident Kremlin that will act to protect the millions of Ukrainians and Russian citizens who are at risk from the fascists and anarchists in general. The Jews are part of the population that Moscow will move to protect. My sources indicate that Russia will move to reinforce the military installations in Crimea and then prepare adequate means to help other regions where Russian citizens are concentrated, like Odessa.

As for the U.S., it finds itself in a position of supporting chaos in Kiev with Rice’s unfocused remark that “the United States is on the side of the Ukrainian people.”

The view from Moscow

I wrote recently of the Kremlin’s opinion that Barack Obama’s administration has interfered in Ukrainian affairs. My sources have told me that the Kremlin holds that Rice has been in contact with the investor George Soros, who has used his wealth and influence openly to unsettle affairs in Ukraine at least since the Orange Revolution of 2005. The Kremlin maintains that the Obama administration has led the protesters to understand that Washington supports their demands to join with the EU and not with the Russian Federation.

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Comment by Not mainstreamer on March 11, 2014 at 1:22pm: No more corruption in Ukraine?

Comment by Ron Anderson on March 6, 2014 at 3:28am: Por favor debes ignorar todo el propagandismo....

Comment by Maria De Wind on March 3, 2014 at 10:11pm

Comment by Not mainstreamer on February 28, 2014 at 9:33am: $5 billion program = 200,000 full time activists were funded?

Comment by Not mainstreamer on February 28, 2014 at 9:24am: In the autumn of 2009, Svoboda joined the Alliance of European National Movements as the only organisation from outside the European Union.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_European_National_Movements

Founded 24 October 2009
Ideology Nationalism,
Ultranationalism,
Euroscepticism
Political position Far-right

They are not pro-Europa (if there is a relation here)

Comment by Ragnarok on February 28, 2014 at 6:42am

Comment by Ragnarok on February 28, 2014 at 6:25am: Well when there's no more countries left to destabilize in south Americas, Africa and the middle east. The globalist war machine just moves else where. I believe theres still a few countries left in Asia and eastern Europe there have'nt been totally destroyed and undermined yet.

Comment by Not mainstreamer on February 28, 2014 at 5:38am: Akhmetov

Details regarding Akhmetov's past, how he obtained his wealth after the fall of communism in Ukraine, and the decade between 1985 and 1995 remain controversial.[14][15] Akhmetov is said to have ties to organized crime.[3][16] Akhmetov has stated in interviews that he obtained his wealth by making risky business investments in the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union,[15]

That is IZCS

Comment by Not mainstreamer on February 28, 2014 at 5:32am: Now they (not much Communism) have switched allegiance to the new government?

Comment by Not mainstreamer on February 28, 2014 at 5:26am: Unrest in Ukraine is contrary to Russian interest. The Nationalists supported Maidan because that suited their anti-Communism - not because they are pro-Europa.

Oligarch (1)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/how-oligarchs-in-ukraine...

Only once did Akhmetov show himself to the protesters. He drove up in his Mercedes and told them that he was prepared to talk. The worst for him, he said, would be if he "could no longer walk through Donetsk and breathe Ukrainian air." Akhmetov, who started "at zero" 25 years ago, as he likes to emphasize, didn't want to belong to the losers.

Oligarch (2)

When Yanukovych ascended to power, it was good for Firtash as well. He expanded his empire and today, with his media conglomerate Inter Media Group, controls several television channels.

But the two have divided the political playing field between them and they control their country's political scene as though it were a business joint venture. Key positions, whether in ministries or in parliament, are all occupied by their people. Yanukovych's economics minister, for example, came from Akhmetov's team while the deputy prime minister, in charge of natural gas issues, answered to Firtash. It is a loveless marriage of convenience, but it has held.