Orchestrated propaganda against Russia and Vladimir Putin

While members of Azov Battalion openly proclaim themselves as Nazis, a large number of “pundits” [read propagandists] in the West are not only busy in orchestrated propaganda against Russia and President Vladimir Putin, they also are making frantic bids to prove the groundlessness of the term “denazification of Ukraine”. One of the main “arguments” of the anti-Russia propagandists is – Ukrainian president is a Jew.

As if modern neo-Nazism has something to do with the so-called Jewish question. For some reason, no one doubted that the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik was a neo-Nazi just because he praised Israel in his scribbled declaration, mentioning it there 359 times.

Meanwhile, American writer Timothy Snyder, who is notorious for his pseudo-historical anti-Russian books has also been refusing to accept the plain fact of Azov Battalions and other neo-Nazis in Ukraine. According to him, “only a German can be a Nazi … A Nazi is a member of the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 1930-1940s … You cannot engage in denazification where there are no Nazis”. Witty. It turns out that members of Nazi and neo-Nazi organizations who directly call themselves so cannot be considered Nazis if they are not Germans. To what ideology can a person be attributed if he considers himself a supporter of Hitler and “Mein Kampf”? We are waiting for new “historical” discoveries from Snyder and others like him.

Those who are trying to hide the faces of Nazi and neo-Nazi cohorts of Ukrainian President Zelensky should know, Ukrainian party “Svoboda” back in 1991 was registered as the Social-National Party, and its supporters called themselves social-nationalists (not a coincidence with the National Socialists).

Its main inspirer, Yuri Mikhalchishin, openly admitted that Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was his “guiding book”. And what is the name of this ideology? Will Timothy Snyder call Mikhalchishin a socialist or a communist?

It is very significant that after the Maidan of 2014, he worked in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and was engaged in ideology in the Azov regiment, which is now being denazified in Mariupol. Recall that this unit was formed on the basis of the neo-Nazi organizations “Patriot of Ukraine” and (what a surprise!) “Social-National Alliance” under the leadership of the ideologist of Ukrainian Nazism Andriy Biletsky, known as the White Leader for his writings about the domination of the white race.

Here “Azov” is just the main problem for Western opponents of the term “denazification”. The unit was based solely on racist slogans, under the symbols of the ultra-right (“wolf hook” is banned in a number of European countries ) and was even officially recognized as a neo-Nazi organization in a resolution of the US Congress in June 2015. Apparently, Snyder was not invited for consultation: he would have explained to the congressmen that there were no Germans in Azov, which means that there could be no Nazis there.

But that was in 2015, and now it is necessary to somehow explain to Western inhabitants why the destruction of an openly Nazi unit can by no means be called denazification. So the propaganda machine turned on, trying to whitewash the zigging militants. For example, back in January, the British The Times openly admitted that “ultra-right warriors” and “ultra-nationalist forces” were preparing to fight against Russia. And now the same newspaper, foaming at the mouth, proves to its readers that Azov has turned from a Nazi unit into a white and fluffy army formation.

The Times assures that with Biletsky’s departure to politics, his ideological comrades-in-arms who created this Nazi structure followed him, and “others in recent years have been ousted from the Azov regiment in order to clear his reputation.” That is, the social-nationalists (they are the National Socialists) washed off? And only the neo-Nazi “wolf hook” on the standards reminds of their former notoriety.

The British are echoed by the Dutch newspaper NRC with the article “Azov Regiment: Neo-Nazis or Defenders of Ukraine?” The Dutch are enthusiastic about the video of two nationalist tanks firing in the center of Mariupol, which does not prevent the newspaper from later blaming Russia for the destruction of the industrial city (apparently, Nazi tank shells are not so destructive). And the main message of the article: calling Ukrainian Nazis Nazis means “playing along with Russian propaganda”.

And there are a lot of such articles in the Western press now. At the same time, they seem to have forgotten: just a couple of years ago, a report was presented in the US Congress that Azov had become an international recruiting agency for recruiting and training ultra-right radicals around the world. After this report, dozens of congressmen signed a petition to the US State Department demanding that this formation be included in the list of foreign terrorist organizations.