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The driver of this violence was largely the Ukrainian far right, which, while a minority of the protesters, served as a kind of revolutionary vanguard. Looking outside Kyiv, a systematic analysis of more than 3,000 Maidan protests found that members of the far-right Svoboda party — whose leader once complained Ukraine was run by a “Muscovite-Jewish mafia” and which includes a politician who admires Joseph Goebbels — were the most active agents in the protests. They were also more likely to take part in violent actions than any group but one: Right Sector, a collection of far-right activists that traces its lineage to genocidal Nazi collaborators.
Svoboda used its considerable resources, which included thousands of ideologically committed activists, party coffers, and the power and prominence afforded to it as a parliamentary party, to mobilize and keep the protests alive, while eventually leading the occupation of key government buildings in both Kyiv and the western regions. This was particularly the case in the western city of Lviv, where protesters took over a regional administration building that soon came to be partially controlled and guarded by far-right paramilitaries. There, they declared a “people’s council” that “proclaimed Svoboda-dominated local councils and their executive committees the only legitimate bodies in the region,” writes Volodymyr Ishchenko, fueling the crisis of legitimacy that ended in Yanukovych’s ouster.
But this was by no means limited to Ukraine’s West. Right Sector led the January 19 attacks on police in Kyiv that even opposition leaders criticized, with one protester saying the far-right bloc had “breathed new life into these protests.” Andriy Parubiy, the unofficial “commander of Maidan,” founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine — a barely even winking allusion to Nazism — that later became Svoboda. By January 2014, even NBC was admitting that “right-wing militia-type toughs are now one of the strongest factions leading Ukraine’s protests.” What was meant to be a revolution for democracy and liberal values ended up featuring ultranationalist chants from the 1930s and prominent displays of fascist and white supremacist symbols, including the American Confederate flag.
originally posted by: slapjacks
a reply to: LoneCloudHopper2
WW3 started When "Covid" hit
IMO
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
I will definitely be watching international news stations, not US. No way in hell the truth will ever come out with US media bs artists at work. At least we have a shot with news from other countries. How much of a shot I don't know. But it almost has to be better than what we get here...
originally posted by: carewemust
Joe Biden and Europe should just let Russia do what he wants by installing a new leader in Ukraine, and get back to working on making life better here at home.
Oh gawd, no he isn't. He's wildly inconsistant and not only that, he's a leftist. He even proclaims it. He isn't a Conservative.
originally posted by: LoneCloudHopper2
a reply to: Arnie123
No he's not a grifter. Grifter means con artist. Tim is one of the most honest and level-headed figures in journalism I've found. If you want to criticize him, just make honest criticisms. Everyone the Left doesn't like gets called a 'grifter' now. It's like calling someone 'jerkface'.
originally posted by: XipeTotex
a reply to: LoneCloudHopper2
I think the first step in resolving this matter is to round up all the world leaders, then get some tar and feathers.
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: LoneCloudHopper2
if Russia advanced beyond Ukraine
If Russia advanced beyond Ukraine they will advance into a NATO country in which case an attack on one is an attack on all , if that were to happen a planned response would be necessary , it would be a dereliction of duty not to have one prepared.